Zooniverse Classrooms - Jan 2018

Zooniverse Classrooms - Jan 2018

This is the initial launch of the Zooniverse Classrooms education tool, aimed at teachers and students of Astronomy classes.

Features

• Astro 101 with Galaxy Zoo, (aka the I2A Program,) a packaged education system that allows teachers to create prefabbed classrooms for teaching two astronomy-centric 'courses'/'exercises': Galaxy Zoo 101 and Hubble's Law.
  • Further guidance on the Astro 101 with Galaxy Zoo Program can be found in the Instructors Guide

External Dependencies

• [core] Zooniverse/Panoptes login systems
• [core] EduAPI service
  • with the I2A Program set up
• [aux] Zooniverse astronomy projects with the group option enabled, to allow students to submit Classifications for the specific classroom.
  • e.g. https://master.pfe-preview.zooniverse.org/projects/srallen086/galaxy-zoo-in-astronomy-101/classify?group=1326283
  • (See src/ducks/programs.js for a list of Zooniverse projects.)
• [aux] shared Google Drive folder for "Instructors Guide" documents.
• [aux] Caesar service for I2A 'Export Data' functionality.
  • Data reducers setup for production Workflows 5521 and 5522 for (see src/ducks/programs.js for details)

Notes:

• WildCam Darien is not fully ready for use in this version and only has the geographic map.