DISCLAIMER: This is not an official Google product.
Virtual Tutors App
The Virtual Tutors App is a simple, experimental web application to enable multiple tutors
to serve multiple students remotely using a customer service ticket
model. In operation, a student creates a help request, and each logged
in tutor sees the help request appear in a queue. Any tutor can then respond to
a pending help request, which causes a video connection to be automagically established (using
WebRTC) between the student and the tutor.
The app also includes rudimentary admin features to enable provisioning students, teachers,
and classes.
This is still very much an experiment and a work in progress, and not intended for use in production.
Please feel free to provide comments or suggestions if you find issues.
Current Features
Establish WebRTC connection between a student and a teacher using a Firebase real-time database for
signaling
Provision teachers and students in Firebase database
Edit public/src/vt-app.html to point to your Firebase database
Pull the necessary dependencies - bower install
Optional - copy the security rules from database.json into Firebase. See
[https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/security/]
If you don’t do this, the default rules will apply, which require users to
be authenticated but provide no other restrictions. The rules in database.json were
compiled using firebase-bolt from the database.bolt file. See
[https://github.com/firebase/bolt]
Run the application locally - firebase serve - or host it on Firebase firebase deploy
How It Works
The underlying technologies for Virtual Tutors are:
WebRTC
Firebase realtime database
Polymer
Limitations, Known Issues, and Caveats
Currently this has only been tested with modern Chrome and Firefox browsers. Other
browsers may work too . . . or not
When adding new users and classes, there is a known problem with the UI that requires reloading the page
Currently only single peer-to-peer connections are supported
Others
License
The code is released under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for
more details.
This project is not an official Google project. It is not supported by Google
and Google specifically disclaims all warranties as to its quality,
merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.
DISCLAIMER: This is not an official Google product.
Virtual Tutors App
The Virtual Tutors App is a simple, experimental web application to enable multiple tutors to serve multiple students remotely using a customer service ticket model. In operation, a student creates a help request, and each logged in tutor sees the help request appear in a queue. Any tutor can then respond to a pending help request, which causes a video connection to be automagically established (using WebRTC) between the student and the tutor.
The app also includes rudimentary admin features to enable provisioning students, teachers, and classes.
This is still very much an experiment and a work in progress, and not intended for use in production. Please feel free to provide comments or suggestions if you find issues.
Current Features
Installation
To install, you need to do the following:
bower installfirebase serve- or host it on Firebasefirebase deployHow It Works
The underlying technologies for Virtual Tutors are:
Limitations, Known Issues, and Caveats
License
The code is released under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for more details.
This project is not an official Google project. It is not supported by Google and Google specifically disclaims all warranties as to its quality, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.