Gurukul

Gurukul is an online E-Learning platform for RCCIITians.
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About The Project:

Gurukul is an E-learning portal for RCCIITians. Where user can ask questions and get answers from the community of RCCIITians, download E-books from the Digital Library, and much more.

The project is developed by a team of four students of RCCIIT as a part of their 3rd semester python project.

Team members are:

  Aritra Belel       Ankit Malakar       Soham Banerjee       Soham Sarkar

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Clone The Project:

git clone https://github.com/belelaritra/Gurukul
cd Gurukul

Installation:

• To install Django and other dependencies on your machine run this command.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Environment Setup

Before Starting the Server

1. Create .env file inside root project directory.
2. Add EMAIL , PASSWORD and SECRET_KEY variables into .env file.

echo "EMAIL = \nPASSWORD = \nSECRET_KEY = " > .env

3. Give propper values to the variables & for Password enter the login password of your email.

For PASSWORD :

• Turn on Allow less secure apps to ON from here.

For SECRET_KEY :

• Copy & run the following command in terminal.

django-admin startproject myproject
cd myproject/myproject

• Now open settings.py file and copy the SECRET_KEY value from line number 23.

( Sample SECRET_KEY : django-insecure-&)#p8aqf*r0pxv_ui2lxhxgax&@psu1@+jk9gi^vq3af0gqixi )

Make Migration and Migrate:

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Run the server :

python manage.py runserver

Now you can access the server at http://localhost:8000/.

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Features:

• Account:

  • Login & Signup
  • Email Verification
  • Forgot Password
  • Update Profile Picture
  • Edit Profile & Change Password
  • 3 time login attempts
  • Safe Mode

• Question:

  • Ask Question
  • Answer Question
  • Like & Dislike
  • Edit & Delete Question/Answer
  • Realtime Views count
  • Search Question
  • Filter Questions according to the tags
  • Sort Questions on the basis of time/views/likes/answers
  • Markdown Support
  • Profanity Filter (Forbidden words will be replaced with *, if safe mode is on)

• Library:

  • Add Books
  • Preview Books
  • Download Books

This code is running live at gurukul-rcciit.herokuapp.com

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Screenshots:

Email Verification:

Question with answer:

Question (with markdown support):

With & without safe mode:

Safe Mode off	Safe Mode on

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License:

Copyright © 2022 gurukul-rcciit.herokuapp.com

The content of this repository is bound by the GNU GPL-3.0 license.

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Contributors: