EdHub Week 1 Report #

Team #

Project Description #

Brainstorming Ideas #

While generating ideas, we decided to build off of problems we face in student life that can be fixed with our project. The main ideas were Learnin Management System (LMS) because of the unstable work of the university Moodle platform and a service for conducting programming contests because of the complicated administration of Codeforces platform. The contests service would have allowed instructors to create contests faster, check them and transfer students’ grades into Moodle, but we decided to abandon this project because it was not scalable enough and difficult to continue developing in the future.

We decided to settle on developing an LMS. The first name of EduHub was generated by DeepSeek. We decided that 3 syllables was too hard to pronounce and settled on EdHub.

Idea #

We want to develop a Learning Management System for interaction between teachers, students, and parents. Teachers can create courses, upload materials, create homework assignments, see student submissions, grade them based on criteria, and calculate course grade.

Target Users #

Our goal is to develop a platform that both school teachers and university professors can use in their classes. In our project, we want to emphasize the simplicity and usability of the product. We want any school teacher, who does not know too much about technology, be able to use our LMS to improve the quality of an educational process.

Market Research #

Most existing LMSs have limited functionality and cannot be fully utilized in schools and universities. For example, Google Classroom has a user-friendly interface and pleasant design, but does not support parental access, creating the need for teachers to explain the details of grades to students’ parents, does not support the grading of entire course as well as the tracking of student attendance. In addition, Google Classroom is a proprietary platform that hosted by Google and can not be launched on local servers.

On the other hand, a lot of LMSs have awkward website design and cause difficulties in everyday use. For example, Moodle platform has extensive functionality, but is too complex to use, requiring clear customization and support at the IT administrator level. In addition, the platform has no assessment of assignments by criteria.

Roles & User stories #

We have four main roles in our LMS: Teacher, Student, Parent, and Administrator. The first three roles operate within a specific course. Any user of LMS can create a course and become a Teacher in it or join an already existing course as a Student, Parent, or an additional Teacher.

The role of Administrator applies to the entire LMS, its goal is to help users in case of any difficulties and/or bugs. Administrator can view system logs, access any page of the website, edit any blocks / materials / assignments / submissions on any course in LMS.

Teacher #

• As a teacher, I want to create courses fast and simply so that interaction with a group of students becomes easier.
• As a teacher, I want to invite students to a course so that they can access the course materials and have the opportunity to submit their work.
• As a teacher, I want to invite students‘ parents to a course so that they can track the students‘ grades without disturbing me.
• As a teacher, I want to upload, remove, and change materials so that students will receive them fast.
• As a teacher, I want to receive the students’ work submissions so that I can collect them in one place without direct interaction.
• AAs a teacher, I want to track the time of student submissions so that I can monitor for deadline violations.
• As a teacher, I want to grade the students’ submissions so that students get detailed feedback on the criteria in one place.
• As a teacher, I want to mark student attendance so that I can collect this information in one place.
• As a teacher, I want to assign a user as a parent of another user so that they can monitor another user’s progress.

Student #

• As a student, I want to access courses so that interaction with a teacher be- comes easier.
• As a student, I want to see the study materials so that I can review the lesson material at home on my own.
• As a student, I want to submit my work so that I can deliver the work to the teacher quickly and without direct interaction.
• As a student, I want to receive my grades so that get feedback on my work.
• As a student, I want to view which teacher graded my submission so that I know which teacher to contact in case of any questions

Parent #

• As a parent, I want to access the grades of my student so that I can track their academic progress.

Administrator #

• As an administrator, I want to deploy my own instance of LMS (similar to GitLab) so that my organization’s sensitive data will be stored locally.
• As an administrator, I want to edit any blocks / materials / assignments / submissions on any course so that I can help users in case of any difficulties and/or bugs.
• As an administrator, I want to access all the service logs so that I can localize the problem and help fix it.
• As an administrator, I want to enable/disable the registration of new users in the LMS so that I can control access to the local LMS model.
• As an administrator, I want to register new users manually so that I can provide ready-made accounts to the teachers at my organization.

Repository #

https://github.com/IU-Capstone-Project-2025/edhub

We confirm that the code in the main branch:

• In working condition.
• Run via docker-compose.

Tech Stack #

• React framework was chosen as the main frontend stack for its component-based architecture, rich ecosystem, and strong community support, enabling rapid UI development.
• FastAPI Python framework was chosen as the main backend stack for its high development speed and extensive documentation
• PostgreSQL was chosen as the main database for its reliability and extensibility.
• Docker Compose is chosen for the deployment process as it is the industry standard for service deployment using containers.

Individual contribution #