rofe-dl / eduonline

A website where students can give online MCQ exams

EduOnline

EduOnline is a platform for teachers and students to give MCQ based exams. Teachers can login with an admin account, make their own subjects, and create timed exams for it. Students can then login with their accounts and attend the exam. Their results are then automatically graded and displayed to the teacher upon request.

Setup Instructions

1. Install MariaDB and the required development libraries for it

   // Development libraries
   sudo apt install libmariadb-dev libmariadb-dev-compat libmariadbclient-dev
   sudo apt install python3-dev
   

2. Create a database called eduonline in MariaDB

3. In the EduOnline directory, make a secrets.py file and write down the secret variables required

   DJANGO_SECRET_KEY = '<any random string>'
   DATABASE_PASSWORD = '<your mariadb database password>'
   

   Then in the local_settings.py file, search for DATABASES and change the username there to the username of your database (usually root)

4. Make a virtual environment of python and install dependencies

   python3 -m venv env
   source env/bin/activate
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

5. Create an admin user for the Django project

   python3 manage.py createsuperuser --settings=EduOnline.local_settings

6. Migrate the changes to your database.

   python3 manage.py makemigrations --settings=EduOnline.local_settings
   python3 manage.py migrate --settings=EduOnline.local_settings
   

7. Run the server with the local settings.

   python3 manage.py runserver --settings=EduOnline.local_settings

Development

• Python 3
• Django
• MariaDB
• jQuery
• JavaScript
• Bootstrap