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A future update Pierce, Brege and Holm hope to incorporate is a way to upload PDF documents to Blocs that would allow teachers to post actual homework assignments on the app that students would be able to download. What that means is that they'll be able to post class news or reminders of deadlines for homework assignments. "Different teachers can have their own groups that they can post to," he said. Students are able to customize their own version of Blocs to receive updates to activities and events they're involved or interested in as well as classes they are taking, Holm explained. "The idea is that you only get the information that's going to be pertinent to you," Pierce said. The app administrator for the school can then designate teachers and students who are approved to post information and updates for each page. Under those broad umbrella groups, there can be more specific categories - such as pages for school clubs and extracurriculars as well as pages created by teachers for specific classes - that students can view.
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In Blocs, a school can customize the app to suit specific needs, creating groups such as news, sports, highlights and resources like student handbook, school code of conduct and athletic department website. "We targeted the high school because I think in high school it's going to be the most useful to the students and the teachers and the parents," Pierce said, adding that it can also be used for middle and elementary school but likely without as much interaction from the student body. The Blocs app was picked up by Brighton Area Schools and launched at Brighton High School in early November.
Pierce co-created the Blocs app with friends and fellow Brighton alumni Mick Brege, an 18-year-old studying interactive design at Lawrence Technological University, and Connor Holm, an 18-year-old University of Michigan freshman who is studying chemical engineering.
"It's really a place where the school can put anything in there that they want," explained Matt Pierce, a 19-year-old Brighton graduate who is now studying biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan. However, since it's too late for that, three Brighton High School graduates decided to do the next best thing: do it for others by creating an educational-technology app for school districts that links students, teachers, administrators, parents and the entire community to school resources, alerts, updates and information in real time. It's something they wished they'd had as high school students.