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  Super simplified flow-chart of our bot's functions.

Our Project

Our team, dionysus.io (Team ID 079) chose the education theme in order to improve learning in this post-covid age.

We decided to leverage Telegram and its ability to create bots in order to come up with a solution on a platform many are familiar with.

Features of the bot

We used BotFather to create the telegram chat bot and proceeded to write it in python, its features include a task-manager-esque list where teachers can input information and students can refer to. We also implemented a "pomodoro" feature that acts like a timer, students can input a task and a duration of their choosing. When the time is up the bot will then send a notification to the student.

How we made it

We used the 'python-telegram-bot' module taught by NUS Hackers in one of LifeHack's workshop in order come up with a bot for both teachers and users. We had also referred to other projects involving telegram bots on GitHub such as the conversationbot.py and inlinekeyboard.py by bibo-joshi. We used Pandas' Dataframes as our store for information as it is lightweight and flexible. Teachers can specify their subject and add homework to the dataframes which will then be accessible to the user. We made us of the modules features like job queues in order to send timed updates, and automatically remove old homework tasks.

One can use the link: http://t.me/dionysus_hw_bot to access our bot, there are further instructions within the bot to guide the user along.

Afterword

As this is created for the purpose of NUS LifeHack 2021, we do not plan on maintaining the bot. However we felt like with more time and technology available we would be able to scale the bot and possibly add more features to create a more comprehensive experiences for students and teachers alike.

Built With

• python
• telegram