Problem Bank

Instructors spend hours reading handwritten homework and exams, and students often wait a long time for feedback. Your team might build a tool that reads handwritten answers, flags common mistakes, and drafts comments that the instructor reviews before anything reaches students.

Students often struggle with difficult concepts that are spread across lectures, readings, and slides. Your team might build a study companion that explains key ideas from the course materials in simpler terms and quizzes students to check their understanding.

Students have to balance degree requirements, prerequisites, and course availability when they plan several semesters ahead, and mistakes can delay graduation. Your team might build a tool that maps out possible paths to graduation and shows how each choice affects future semesters.

Students often miss electives that match their interests or career goals because the course catalog is long and hard to browse. Your team might build a tool that suggests courses based on a student’s interests, using the public course catalog.

Students often struggle to find Temple policies, deadlines, and program requirements, which are spread across many websites and written in formal language. Your team might build a tool that answers students’ questions in plain language and links to the official source.

Building a semester schedule is hard when students must track prerequisites, course sequences, and time conflicts. Your team might build a tool that shows which courses lead to which and lets students compare possible schedules side by side.

Many students feel unprepared when they write a resume, apply for internships, or face their first interviews. Your team might build an interview practice tool that gives feedback, or an assistant that helps students tailor a resume to a specific job posting.

Students often don’t know which tutoring and academic support services exist or which one fits their course. Your team might build a guide that points students to the right tutoring option based on their subject, schedule, and needs.

Prospective and first-year students find it hard to compare majors and to see where each one can lead. Your team might build an interactive explorer that lets students compare programs by interests, courses, and possible careers.

Students want to know how their courses and skills connect to real jobs, but that link is rarely spelled out. Your team might build a tool that matches a program’s skills to public job postings and shows which careers it prepares students for.

Faculty and staff who travel for work must estimate costs, keep receipts, and follow reimbursement rules, which takes time and leads to errors. Your team might build an assistant that drafts a travel budget, organizes receipts, and checks expenses against the published rules before submission.

Departments and career advisors want to show students where graduates of their programs end up, but this information is scattered across news stories, announcements, and other public sources. Your team might build a tool that gathers this public information and turns it into clear visual summaries for current and prospective students.

Decisions and follow-up tasks from meetings often get lost because nobody has time to write them up. Your team might build a tool that turns meeting notes into a short summary, a list of tasks with owners, and draft follow-up emails.

Temple offices that build partnerships with companies, nonprofits, and community groups spend a lot of time searching for organizations that fit their goals. Your team might build a tool that uses public information to suggest potential partners and explain why each one could be a good match.

Academic programs want to stay connected with their alumni, but planning events, sending updates, and tracking responses take a lot of staff time. Your team might build a tool that helps a program plan alumni activities, draft newsletters, or match alumni with current students for mentoring.

When a student is struggling, faculty and staff are often unsure which campus office can help, whether the issue is academic, financial, or personal. Your team might build a guide that helps faculty quickly find the right resource and explains how to refer the student.

Researchers spend many hours searching for grants and for colleagues with matching expertise. Your team might build a tool that matches a researcher’s interests with current funding announcements and suggests potential collaborators based on public profiles.

A researcher’s publications, talks, and other work are spread across many websites, which makes it hard to see the full picture. Your team might build a dashboard that brings this public information together and shows the contributions of a researcher or a department over time.

Research papers are full of technical language that makes findings hard to follow for people outside the field. Your team might build a tool that turns a published paper into a plain-language summary or a simple visual explanation while keeping the facts accurate.

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