Teaching & Research Application Development (TRAD)
The Teaching & Research Application Development (TRAD) service collaborates with instructors, researchers and others to design and implement innovative software solutions. We specialize in supporting teaching, learning, advising and research initiatives and ideas in the university community.
Our team provides the technical expertise to
- Build solutions for research data collection, aggregation and sharing
- Design and develop prototypes and fully developed applications in support of teaching, learning, and research innovations
- Generate actionable data and insights to enhance the teaching and learning environment
- Design and develop custom websites, web and mobile applications
- Develop educational outreach and information sharing solutions
- Identify technical recommendations, assess feasibility, and develop estimates for grant proposals
- Create pedagogically sound games, simulations and data visualizations
- Integrate new tools into or adapt current tools within the university’s digital ecosystem
Contact us via email to discuss services, timelines and estimates.
Portfolio
SDG-360
The Sustainable Development Goals 360 Thinking app helps users align their work in communities with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. The tool creates customized, easy to understand visualizations that can be used to connect and optimize efforts related to social equity, environmental care, and economic prosperity.
Campus partners
- School of Human Ecology
- Data Science Institute
SMAHRT
This tool collects data about adolescent screen time use and mood. Through a series of text messages sent to study participants, teens provided information about technology use, including whether they were using their phone when they received the text, what apps they were using, and a self-assessment of their current mood.
Campus partner
Department of Pediatrics, Social Media and Adolescent Health Research Team (SMAHRT)
Discussion Project Grouping Tool
The Discussion Project developed an online application to help instructors group their students for discussion. The Grouping Tool assists instructors in creating small groups for discussion based on answers to survey questions, live responses to questions in class, or an uploaded attendance list.
Symptoms Cluster
This research application is designed to support the assessment of multiple, co-occurring symptoms experienced by patients with cancer, coordinate guideline-based recommendations for symptom management, and deliver instructions to help patients self-manage their symptoms.
Campus partner
School of Nursing
Farm2Facts
Designed by UW–Madison researchers, this app was created to help farmers market managers gather and interpret data.
Campus partner
Kaufman Lab, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture
Rockd
The Rockd app allows users to explore and learn about the geologic record. The app includes access to geologic and geographic summaries of users’ current locations, provides interactive global access to geologic maps, and allows exploration of paleogeographic maps.
Campus partner
Department of Geoscience
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