group-maker

CLI-based Student Management

The Reason

• To eliminate the burden of manual orchestration of balanced student teams by automating their assignment.
• To make classroom grouping decisions as fast, simple, and equitable as possible.

INSTALLATION

Note!: Though this project is written in JavaScript and distributed as an NPM package,
it does not require any programming ability to use. The only requirement is that the user have access
to NPM/Node from within a terminal.

• Install the project as a global npm package:

  • npm i -g group-maker
  • close all terminals
  • run grouper at the terminal to display available commands and verify installation

BASIC USAGE

Command	Description	Options
add-student	Manually add a single student	N/A
assign <path>	Parse file -> Write students to collections -> Create and assign groups -> Write groups to collections	path Path to BootCampSpot export
color-list	List students and color code by GPA	N/A
empty	Clear specified filestore	interactive
export	Export current class collections	-ft --filetype <type> Type of export file, default: csv -ct --collection-type <type> Type of collection to export, default: students, other: groups