So myself and my team launched UNIGRAM about week ago, and within that period we have gotten a rather slow but encouraging response to the idea.
I thought to share with you guys. Suggestions, and comments are welcome.
Unigram lets users anonymously rate lecturers and universities. Users can also post comments, and see the public comments posted by others.
Universities can be rated on a scale of 1-10, on criteria such as quality of education, facilities, student/social Life, security and accommodation, research and innovation while lecturers can be rated on a scale of 1-10, on criteria including attendance, student engagement, quality of teaching, knowledge of curriculum.
Just a quick overview of things I’ve noticed so far
The home page is a bit bare. Not that its particularly a bad thing, but I would have loved to see something like most recent reviews on the homepage beneath the search bar.
The background image on search results is too busy and doesn’t look particularly good
Colour scheme clashes with the background. Case in point
Ok, Cool concept and just as @muyiscoi suggested, the post page is transparent, like the content the user would like to see is inline with the background image. Making it (Content Page) have a background white won’t be a bad idea.
**UPDATE
Seems it is not just the post/display content page, tried looking up other pages on the site and…
But first, how do you grade/rate the schools? is it based on what you and your team think or user’s suggestion?
This is a very touchy issue and you must be careful but a laudable idea.
Let the Reviews be Anonymous then you compile monthly Reports/Gazettes and send to all Universities from PR to Deans of Colleges and meet with them as well as get permission from NUC, that part alone will take time but start this way, make sure all needed legal document you need is ready, as its a touchy issue, VCs and colleges are quick to sue for defamation not understanding that your system simply rates based on voting of services and its a wake up alarm for the education system.
We can take it further, Rate each class held per lecture or overall year
You can also provide information services to universities by linking firms that target student population, now thats where you make money but first you need to pull in the group.
Wouldn’t it have been better if students could select the university they want to search from so that it would be easier for them (there could be many lecturers with the same name)? And I checked the site there is no list of already rated lecturers.
I do think that giving the user initial options like a list of schools, department and faculty could ease their search and it would (I think) be an efficient means of querying the database.
I suggest you do what Zuckerberg did with Facebook - prepopulate (although populate will be a more appropriate word in your case). Upload lecturers names, department, etc.
Niche this. It seems you want to cover the whole of Nigeria in one fell swoop. You stand a better chance becoming a thing in, say UNILAG, then spreading to other schools.
Hello guys, sorry for the last response, and many thanks for the great feedback so far.
@oiclid the website will be closely moderated. Comments that contain derogatory/libellous comments will not be tolerated.
@muyiscoi thanks for all the points raised, we are currently working on fixing all the issues noted
@youngbobby thanks, I noticed that as well, working on correcting immediately
@kofacts we considered the white background, but it looked too gloomy, we consider other colours at this point, thank you.
On your second question, currently the reviews we have on, are aggregated ratings from a survey we carried out. As users sign up and continue to rate their universities, the ratings of the university will continue to change, A user’s ratings will affect the university rating by a 100%. For lecturers currently, since we are unable to get a definite rating, when we add them to the site, we give them an average rating of 7.
@Freshboi_Ekundayo thanks for the suggestion, we are currently considering this option
@ChukwuEmekaAjah thanks for the awesome suggestion, this feature will be added in the coming weeks! thanks
I love the idea. I had a similar idea spring up the other day. I was looking for a way to heighten the sense of accountability in the country but universities didn’t come to mind when I thought of the anonymous review website. I’ll take a look at the site and give some feedback.
It’s a simple look but I think that’s what makes it great for me. The homepage looks great. Strange comparison but unlike snapchat or some other websites, I know what I’m on your site for and how to do it. I’ll try and use it more this week and let you know if I come across any problems.
