A platform for organizing and conducting online courses on Django 📚.

The "Online Learning Platform" project is currently under development.

Project Description

The "Online Learning Platform" project consists of two separate Django projects:

1. ProjectA - LMS_online_school: A platform for organizing and conducting online courses. The main functions include creating courses, assessing student results, conducting webinars and video lessons using ZOOM, and providing individual consultations for students. Platform users can have different roles, such as student or teacher, depending on the role, access rights to the admin panel and the general functionality of the platform change.

2. ProjectB - Blog: A blog for publishing articles and news related to the educational platform, only the administrator and a user with the role of teacher can post articles in the blog (the full cycle of CRUD operations is organized for them), a user with the role of student can read the blog.

Project structure and stages

1. Creating Django projects

ProjectA (LMS_online_school)

• Technologies: Django, Django REST Framework (DRF)
• Functionality:
  • Creating and delivering online courses.
  • Assessing student results.
  • Webinars and video lessons in real time.
  • Individual consultations.
  • User role (student/teacher).

ProjectB (Blog)

• Technologies: Django, Django REST Framework (DRF)
• Functionality:
  • Blog for publishing articles.

2. REST API

ProjectA

• Technologies used: Django REST Framework
• API functionality:
  • Course management (creation, update, deletion, retrieval).
  • User registration and management.
  • Test and grade management.
  • Interface for webinars and video lessons (using: ZOOM API).

ProjectB

• Technologies used: Django REST Framework
• API functionality:
  • Blog management.

3. API interaction

• Setting up authentication and authorization using tokens.
• Setting up API requests and responses to transfer data between projects.

4. Docker

• Containerization of ProjectA and ProjectB:
  • Writing a Dockerfile for each project.
  • Creating docker-compose.yml to manage containers and networks between them.

5. Testing

• Blog: To test the creation of a blog post, we use django.test, the test_views.py file in the blog/tests/ directory. Run with the command:

docker-compose exec api python manage.py test blog.tests.test_views

• Online School: To test whether an authorized user with the teacher or administrator role can successfully create a course. Test using APITestCase from rest_framework.test.. Run with the command:

docker-compose exec api_online_school python manage.py test tests.test

Explanation:

• setUp: Creates users (teacher and student) and defines the URL for course creation.
• test_create_course_as_teacher: Checks that the teacher can successfully create a course and that the course is created in the database.
• test_create_course_as_student: Checks that a student cannot create a course and that the course is not created in the database.

6. Asynchronous tasks with Celery

ProjectA

• Email notifications upon registration.
• By default, the user has the status of - Inactive, after sending the user an email with a greeting, his status automatically changes to - Active. A user with the role of - teacher needs to be activated by the admin and he will receive the status of staff and will be able to administer courses and the blog.

7. Overriding the user model and permissions

ProjectA

• Extending the user model with the addition of new fields.
• Setting up a permissions system for access control.

Project structure

ProjectA LMS_online_school/

├── online_school/
│    ├── .gitignore
│    └── school/
│        ├── blog_posts/
│        ├── config/
│        ├── courses/
│        ├── tests_and_grade/
│        ├── templates/
│        │   ├── online-school/
│        │   ├── videolessons/
│        │   └── users/
│        │
│        │
│        ├── static/
│        ├── users/
│        ├── video_lessons/
│        └── tests/
│           └──ttest.py
│           
│
├── Dockerfile
├── docker-compose.yml
├── requirements.txt
├── .env.example
├── redis.conf
└── manage.py

ProjectB Blog/

├── blog_school/
│   ├── .gitignore
│   └──  blog_data/
│       ├── config/
│       ├── blog/
│       └──  tests/
│             └── test_views.py
│      
├── Dockerfile
├── docker-compose.yml
├── .env.example
├── requirements.txt
└── manage.py

Links

• GitHub repository: online-learning-platform