Apps for Good Competition Entry

1. Plan-It
By
Rory Cogavin, Kunle Fadipe and Max Sinclair-Johnson

2. Our app is aimed at students attending
secondary schools across the country. This
will be used throughout the day at school, so
students can see what homework they have,
and when it is due in for. This will be useful
because students will be able to check their
homework, and can message teachers if they
need help or are unable to complete the
work in the given time period.

3. Our app targets the problem of
students failing to hand in
homework on time, students who
are confused about the work, and
often need help from teachers.
The big problem

4. What do I do when I don’t
know or understand the
homework?
The question that we are addressing

5. This online planner is much easier than
using your school planner, if your
school even has one, as you can see all
of the options you need, all in one
place.
The benefit of this app is that you can
access help on your homework
wherever you are with the original
teacher messaging feature.
Why plan-it is the app you need

6. Our team, SnappyAppy is developing a mobile
app to help students who are having difficulties
with organising their homework, because they
don’t understand what to do or because they
find typical methods of homework planning
difficult or confusing; what really benefits their
development is the instant teacher messaging
which is just a few taps of a screen away.
The basic idea

7. Who would use this?
Students who find organising their
school work difficult and who often
end up getting in trouble due to their
lack of organisational skills.

8. Competitors who don’t fully solve
the problem
Competitors, such as My Homework, do not have an
option to message your teachers or ask for help. We
have focused on that to make it one of our key assets
that put us above the rest of our competitors.
Homework is not just about completing work, but is
about learning how to do work; with our teacher
messaging option, it is easy to learn.
My Homework app logo

9. What is the best feature of Plan-it?
Plan-it’s core feature is the teacher messaging
option. This teacher messaging option puts Plan-
it above all the competitors as it helps the
student improve his or her work. The teacher
messaging option is beneficial to the student’s
academic improvement as help is only a few
clicks away. We can use notifications to improve
the messaging experience, therefore teachers will
know almost instantly if one of their students
needs help with some of their important
homework.

10. Teacher Messaging
The instant teacher messaging option is very similar to
commonly used messaging applications such as Facebook
Messenger and iMessage; this makes it easy for the student or
teacher to use.

11. Wireframes
Main Menu New
Assignments
Assignments
Due

12. Wireframes
Log-in Past
Assignments
Teacher
Messages

13. Wireframes
Settings

14. With our app there is a potential problem with
feasibility as some teachers would not want
students to be able to contact them; an idea to get
around this is that all messages would be forwarded
to the teachers through a central school messaging
server. If that was to be put in place it may limit the
‘instant’ part of our instant teacher messaging.
Other than that problem all of the technologies that
we will be using are completely legal and are already
used by various other companies and applications.
Technical Feasibility

15. Our business model
People who would purchase this app would be students
who have access to a smartphone. It is open to any type
of student, whether they are disorganized or not, as the
app interface is completely simple and easy to use.
Students would purchase this app because they find
organising their homework challenging, or because they
would simply prefer to use an app rather than a paper
planner. We asked 100 students whether they would
prefer an app like Plan-it over a paper planner, 85% said
they would prefer Plan-it. This just shows how popular
this app is and how much potential it has.

16. Marketing Strategy
o Advertise through schools (by using
newsletters, posters etc.)
o Make a ‘Plan-it’ social network page on
Facebook and/or Twitter as many teenagers
our age are on this social network and will
view it
o Put links to our apps on the schools social
networks (such as Moodle)

17. What else did we do?
We met with professionals to make our
app better than before.

18. Thank you