TeachingApp

Purpose of the application is to provide a teaching&learning platform for teachers and students.
Teachers can create courses to the platform - Students can study and complete these courses.
Courses contain study material and assignments which are automatically graded by the system.

Functionalities & Further Development Plan

Existing Functionalities:

Release 1 [30.5.2021]

• Users can log in to and log out from the app
• Users can create new user accounts
• Teachers can create courses
• Teachers can see list of courses they teach
• Teachers can publish courses, hide courses, and delete courses taught by them
• Teachers can modify course parameters
• Students can see list of available courses and join courses which are published for students
• Students can see courses they have enrolled in and courses they have completed
• Students can leave courses

Release 2 [10.6.2021]

• Teachers can add, modify and delete study material on their courses
• Teachers can add multiple-choice and text-field assignments for their courses (question, correct answer, possible choices)
• Teachers can modify and delete assignments they have added
• Students can study material on courses they have enrolled in
• Students can do assignments on their courses and get automatic grading from the system
• Students can complete a course when they have completed enough assignments of the course correctly (teachers set completion limit, e.g. 90%)
• Users are authenticated based on role and user_id if trying to access pages they are not allowed to access (by entering URLs)

Release 3 [18.6.2021]

• Statistics for teachers about student performance on own courses
• Statistics for students about own performance on own courses
• Students can search from all available courses based on course code and course name with keyword
• Students can filter all available courses with language, level, ects, limit and teacher
• Usage of all forms is validated with csrf tokens

Ideas for further development

• Chat area on a course where students and teachers can chat about the course
• Students can rate the course (give stars based on how good the course was) and give free comment about the course - Other students then see these ratings when choosing which course to participate in
• Teachers can create groups and add students to groups - Possible to limit that certain course can be participated by certain group(s) only

Testing on Heroku

TeachingApp can be tested on Heroku.

• One can use following test accounts when testing app:
  • role 'Student':
    • username: student_test
    • password: test
  • role 'Teacher':
    • username: teacher_test
    • password: test
• Available functionalities:
  • One can log in with existing user account or create new user account
  • With role 'Student' one can
    • see list of available courses and join them
    • see list of enrolled and completed courses
    • leave courses
    • study course materials
    • do course assignments and get automatic grading
    • get course completion when enough assignments completed
    • see statistics about own performance on own courses
    • search from all available courses based on course code and course name with keyword
    • filter all available courses with language, level, ects, limit and teacher
  • With role 'Teacher' one can
    • create courses
    • see list of own courses
    • publish/hide/delete courses
    • modify course parameters
    • add/modify/delete assignments for courses
    • add/modify/delete multiple-choice and text-field assignments for courses
    • see statistics about student performance on own courses