ProfApp

An application to assist a university professor with his data management.

Install

Create a virtualenv and activate it:

$ virtualenv --no-site-packages .
$ source bin/activate

Install django-1.6 and django-bootsrap-toolkit:

$ bin/pip install django===1.6.11 django-bootstrap-toolkit

Create a django project and clone this project into it:

$ bin/django-admin.py startproject ProfessorSite
$ cd ProfessorSite
$ git clone git@github.com:fakedrake/django-profapp profapp

Edit ProfessorSite/settings.py to know of our application and dependencies, also define a static directory and setup the database to your preference (sqlite3 here):

...

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
        'NAME': 'database',                      # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
        # The following settings are not used with sqlite3:
        'USER': '',
        'PASSWORD': '',
        'HOST': '',                      # Empty for localhost through domain sockets or '127.0.0.1' for localhost through TCP.
        'PORT': '',                      # Set to empty string for default.
    }
}

   ...

STATIC_ROOT='/path/to/ProfessorSite/static/'

...

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
    "django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
    "django.core.context_processors.debug",
    "django.core.context_processors.i18n",
    "django.core.context_processors.media",
    "django.core.context_processors.static",
    "django.core.context_processors.tz",
    "django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages",
    "django.core.context_processors.request",)


...

INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'profapp',
'bootstrap_toolkit'
)

Now you can run manage.py

$ ../bin/python manage.py syncdb
$ ../bin/python manage.py collectstatic
$ ../bin/python manage.py runserver

And you have a fully functional development server!

Roadmap

There is still very very much to do before this is alpha. This is a roadmap mockup:

• Buildout project structure.
• List/Create/Update/Delete each content type:

  Student

  This represents a student, ideally it should communicate with LDAP.

  Semester Subject

  This is a subject per semesster. Each semester a professor should need to create a new set of these for each subject.

  Exam

  This is an exam.

  Grade

  A student’s grade on a specific exam.

• Copy semester subjects from old years.
• Grade exports for semester subjects.
• Graphic design
• Searching: Find a smart way to make searching efficient.
• Professor accounts.