Empower UC App
Connecting you with higher education.
What is the Empower UC App?
The Empower UC App is a partnership between Empower Upper Cumberland and TNTech’s iCube, with a goal to:
- Create a Mobile Application to assist participants with their career and educational goals
- Build a Web-based dashboard to assist Empower Coordinators with participant orientation and management
The App At-A-Glance
- The core of the app shows all information in one easily accessible space
- Pathway, Tracker, and Resource Content
- Gamification of educational objectives
Pathways
- The Pathway provides participants with a set of goals related to their Academic or Career aspirations
- Academic and ILP “Pathway Items”
- Completion of items can be verified by both the user through the app, and the coordinator through the dashboard
An Example of the structure of a pathway item
The Pathway Dashboard
Pathways in Action
Resources
- Provide participants with curated articles and information on a large range of topics
- Resources related to their pathway may be shown more often, but they can look into any career or academic path
Tracker / Planner
- Tracker provides participants way to keep up with assignments, tasks, and other items
- List view displays upcoming ToDos and can be filtered by tag or searched
- Calendar view shows ToDo’s: Daily and Weekly, and days can be selected from a month calendar
Mood Tracker
- Asks participants how they are feeling for each day they log into the app
- Gives them a chance to journal any of their thoughts related to their day or how they’re doing
Mood Journal
- Catalogue of all of a participants daily moods and their journal entries
- Previous entries can be sorted through and edited here
Streak System
Participants can earn “Streaks” by logging in daily and interacting with app systems such as their pathway, or tracker
Quests
- Quest provide participants with extra goals
- Can be things like
- “Read 5 Resources about your career”
- Log your mood for 3 days
Badges
- In addition to quests, badges provide a more permanent layer of gamification
- Participants can pick badges to earn, track their progress, and look back on what they’ve completed