by mathine_admin | Dec 22, 2025 | Mathine, Reflections
This semester, we didn’t just “build a student tool.” We shipped Mathiné—and learned the hard truth that adoption isn’t about features alone; it’s about access. If a product lives outside a student’s normal workflow, even great work gets ignored – not because it...
by mathine_admin | Dec 10, 2025 | Mathine, Reflections
This sprint made one thing clear: adoption depends on access. Even with strong features, students won’t consistently use Mathiné if it sits outside their normal workflow. Based on student feedback, we shifted toward a Brightspace course shell to meet students where...
by mathine_admin | Nov 25, 2025 | Mathine, Reflections
In this playback, we finally started to see Mathiné look like the tool we imagined back in September. Our to-do list went from a wall of “someday” items to a series of checked boxes: the refreshed landing page, shared calendars, assignment auto-population from...
by mathine_admin | Nov 10, 2025 | Mathine, Reflections
This sprint, we shifted from “building features” to “building habits” – for our users and for ourselves. With exams looming, we leaned into study-season realities: clearer flows and community touchpoints that make Mathiné feel like a teammate, not another tab....
by mathine_admin | Oct 27, 2025 | Mathine, Reflections
Over the past sprint, we tightened our engineering habits, deepened our campus partnerships, and turned hackathon sparks into production-ready features – while threading the needle on privacy and deployment inside UVic’s ecosystem. Same crew, same energy, just a...
by mathine_admin | Oct 22, 2025 | Mathine, Reflections
Welcome Back. After working through all of the setup and troubleshooting steps last sprint, we were able to hit the ground running for sprint two! For our second sprint, we had two main priorities. First, we wanted to get the word out about Mathiné by giving...