Ceralis is a learning managment system (LMS) that was inspired by Canvas. Teachers have the ability to create python programming questions with constraints such as for, while, recursion, and can set a specific difficulty to these questions as easy, medium, or hard. These questions required 2-5 test cases for the autograder. The questions can then be grouped together into exams for students to take. Both students and teachers have their own dashboard
The project is created using docker and docker-compose to create local containers that can be used to test the system. Once the local environment passes all tests, then code will be pushed to production.
First, a .env file must be created in the root directory. This env file must include ROOT_PASSWORD, DATABASE, NAME, PASS and HOST. HOST must be set to db or to whatever the database container is called within the docker-compose.yml file. NAME, PASS, and ROOT_PASSWORD are up to the user to set. DATABASE corresponds to the database name. This can be set to anything but the name must also be changed in the docker/database/init.sql file as well.
After all of this is done the project should run with docker-compose up --build. This command will build three containers, php-apache-environment, phpmyadmin, and db.
To log in to the website hosted on the apache container use localhost:8000.
To log in to the phpmyadmin environment use localhost:8080.
Logging in to the database itself will show binary data that really serves no purpose, but if you'd like to see that you can log in using localhost:9906
There are four user accounts than can be used to log into the system, two teachers and two students.
| User ID | Username | Password |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | studentshane | studentpassword |
| 1 | teachershane | teacherpassword |
| 2 | studentmalcolm | teacherpassword |
| 3 | teachermalcolm | teacherpassword |
As of now there is no way to create users or put students into classes. These features may be added in the future to create a full system. It is also important to note that as of now there is no password hashing in place. The database uses PDO to execute queries so SQL injections should be impossible but all passwords are currently being stored in plain text. As there is no way to create user accounts dynamically right now without having control of the database the passwords will not be hashed. If dynamic user creation and class creations are added then password hashing will also be added.