Hey, thought I’d share a 100% free-to-use website I’ve been working on over the past year. We spend $1000s of dollars on university courses, and yet there’s often no real way of knowing if you’re getting a good bang for your buck. CourseSpy.com is a review site for these courses (works for Auckland University & University of Otago, and finishing expanding full support for all other NZ universities in the next week or so). Rundown of key features:
- Course Reviews: the heart of the website. See ratings, reviews, and even average grades for hundreds of courses.
- Course Planner: interactive, drag-n-drop page that guides you in building your degree semester by semester. Checks if you’ve met your degree requirements, makes suggestions for courses you might like based on your previous selections and more.
- GPA Insights: calculates your GPA, shows which percentile you’re in, and can provide insights into how your weighted GPA or score compares to others who got into competitive entry programmes in the same subcategories as you (e.g. medicine, dentistry, law).
- Rankings: see the highest and lowest rated university courses, the easiest and hardest etc.
Please continue to let me know about any features you’d find useful, or ways I can improve the project to make it more useful to more students! I’m very grateful to the many, many students who have added reviews and ratings and helped with the development of the site :)
P.S. If you do find any bugs or issues, please let me know - I'm a student so still learning and working to make CourseSpy better and better!