GradeBeacon
A multi-university grade alert app that logs into your student portal on a schedule and pings you the moment a new grade, GPA, or ranking appears — with calming UX built for exam-season anxiety.
Chinese university graduate and undergraduate students who manually refresh their portal waiting for grades
- Supports multiple Chinese university systems (SEP, JWXK, 强智, 正方) plus plug-ins for international students on Canvas/Moodle
- Push notification within minutes of any grade appearing, with optional 'only-on-change' mode to avoid noise
- Grade release countdown for known exam dates plus a 'last cohort grade curve' predictor using public data
- Encrypted on-device credential storage and a 'study-to-grade' journal that correlates your reported study hours with outcomes
The original open-source UCAS grade monitor hit 107 stars, validating that tens of thousands of Chinese students perform this anxious manual refresh multiple times a day each semester.
GitHub 'ucas-grade-monitor' is the named signal (107 stars cited, ~37 stars per trendingrepo snapshot), and Zhihu threads like '有哪些公众号或者软件可以查询大学绩点的啊' confirm an active user question, but search results are dominated by K-12 tools (班小二/易查分/好分数) rather than university-grade-push apps — solid but not viral demand.ANEWCAN/ucas-grade-monitor — stars, momentum & trend analysis ↗有哪些公众号或者软件可以查询大学绩点的啊？ - 知乎 ↗
今日校园 (Wisedu) covers 1000+ universities via school partnerships and is the entrenched incumbent, and 查分宝/查分易/查分小程序 serve K-12 — there's no clear cross-university, BYO-credentials push-notification app for Chinese undergrad/grad students, but the white space is narrow and being actively targeted by Tencent-backed 班小二.今日校园 - 赋能高校数字化转型 ↗查分小程序推荐!6款老师家长通用的成绩查询工具 ↗
All surfaced查分 products (班小二, 易查分, 查分易, 今日校园) are free / school-licensed; Zhihu suggests students mostly rely on free WeChat mini-programs; Chinese students are price-sensitive and this is a low-frequency, low-pain use case — willingness to pay appears weak.查分小程序推荐!6款老师家长通用的成绩查询工具 ↗查分易-成绩发送平台官网 ↗
Manual-refresh anxiety is a perennial exam-season behavior and university portals will persist, but native portal push-notification support or school-wide deployment of 今日校园-style SaaS could erode the wedge within a few years.今日校园携手华为云数据库联合打造稳定高效的数据底座 ↗
Each Chinese university uses a different portal (强智, 正方, 树维, etc.) with varying captchas, MFA, and anti-bot scraping defenses; cross-university coverage is a constant maintenance burden and schools frequently block credential-reuse logins.Digitized campus life: 今日校园 launches service across 1000+ universities ↗有哪些公众号或者软件可以查询大学绩点的啊？ - 知乎 ↗