Hello Everyone,
I would like to share with you my short journey with glide app platform. A brief background, I am a Lead product manager with an engineering background and work for tech startups. I know how much time and effort it takes to build actual apps and platforms. My wife manages a non-profit summer children academy that has about 15 teachers and 200 students this summer. I was helping her with managing their student records using G-sheets and she asked me to make them an app to help manage the academy and I was like you can’t afford that!. but then I remembered the no-code systems I keep hearing about and thought about giving it a chance.
Currently, they are using:
Google forms for admission
Google sheets for (students, groups, teachers, activities and attendance information)
WhatsApp groups with children’s parents
I had no idea about available no-code app builders and had to check a few such as (bubble, thunkable, appsheets, adalo, glide) and after the first research glide was the most promising one to solve the academy’s needs. After a week I’ve built the following 3 apps:
Management App:
- View student’s lists with filter using groups
- Manage student information
- Managing student groups
- Manage teacher’s information
- Taking teacher’s attendance
- Groups reports
- Attendance reports (teachers, students)
Teacher App:
- View their group student profiles
- Take students attendance
- Add daily homework
- Add daily activities report (will show up on leaderboard)
Parent App:
- View their children’s profiles
- View homework (with comments)
- View weekly Leaderboard
What amazed me was being able to create a fully functioning platform with about 4 different roles (Admin, Officer, Teacher, Parent) in just 5 days (including learning of the system) and they keep requesting new features (and reports) and takes me like 1-2 hours and they have it. That’s really fascinating!