Description

E-Course management platform. Organise online courses efficiently with automatic assignment checking, student/teacher user control and self-enrolment.

This project was made for TKT20011 Intermediate Studies Project: Database Application-course organised by University of Helsinki in the fourth period of 2023.

Peer Reviewers

The app is hosted at: https://online-course-manager.leevihal.me/

Development Plan

This bullet-point list fill list out all features for this application and is kept up-to-date throughout the course.

Tasks

• Setup Github Repo
• Connect project to Labtools
• Provide a roadmap and feature list for this project
• Provide app building instructions for peer reviewers

Features

Ticked = Completed & Live in Production

• Automatic CI/CD to a production DigitalOcean droplet running Ubuntu using docker-compose Completed
• Authentication Completed
  • Ability to login using username (possibly email) and password
  • Ability to register as a teacher or as a student
    • Add validation to user input
• Courses
  • Student-user features Completed
    • View all courses
    • View courses you've enrolled in
    • View a specific course
      • View course material (text-based) (could implement markup support)
      • Course assignments
        • View course assignments
        • Answer to exercise questions
      • Enroll using invite code
      • View course summary
        • View statistics
        • View total awarded points
        • Unenroll from the course
  • Teacher-user features
    • View all courses
    • Delete a specific course
    • Add new course
    • View a specific course
      • View statistics
      • View enrolled students
      • View specific student's awarded points
    • Edit course
      • Add course material
      • Add assignments
      • View and reset invite code
      • Edit course details

Local Setup

Requirements

• Docker version 20.10.21 or greater

Setup

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/LeeviHalme/online-course-manager.git

cd online-course-manager

2. Setup environment

mv .env.sample .env

• After renaming the example env file, fill in the values according to your configuration!

3. Starting the compose-project

docker-compose up --build

Endpoints

• Adminer SQL explorer: localhost:8080
• Flask app (OnlineCourseManager): localhost:5000

Production setup

docker-compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d --build

Docker setup

If you want, you can build and run the Flask app as a seperate image. To do this, first build the image bu running:

docker build -f Dockerfiles/Flask.Dockerfile . -t online-course-manager

NOTE: In order to use the production version, change the file name from Flask.Dockerfile to Flask.Prod.Dockerfile

After building the image, you can start it up in a container by runnning:

docker run -d -p 5000:5000 online-course-manager

NOTE: This will expose the Flask app in port 5000

License

MIT <3