🎓 Full-Stack LMS Platform (Django + React)

📚 Description

A full-featured Learning Management System (LMS) built using Django (DRF) and React, supporting student progress tracking, certificates, assignments, role-based access control, and a Semi-Admin Panel built on top of Django’s existing admin capabilities.

This platform supports both students and teachers, along with semi-admins who can moderate content, review teacher applications, and manage user access.

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🚀 Features

👤 User Authentication & Profiles

• JWT-based login and registration
• Custom user model with fields:
  • is_teacher, is_semi_admin, is_banned, is_verified
  • Profile image, banner image
  • Phone number, date of birth, bio
• Profile page with avatar, bio, and role-based buttons

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🧑‍🎓 Student Features

• Dashboard with:
  • Enrolled courses (in-progress, completed)
  • Certificates earned
• Course progress tracking
• Course detail pages with:
  • Study material: videos, PDFs, text
  • Graded work: assignments and submissions
• "Mark Complete" buttons for content tracking

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🧠 Assignment System

• Instructors can upload:
  • Assignment file (PDF, doc, etc.)
  • Description & optional deadline
• Students can submit:
  • Answer file + comments
• Teachers can grade:
  • Upload corrected version
  • Leave feedback and assign marks
• Late submission flags and grading dashboard

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🎓 Certificate System

• Automatically generated certificates on 100% completion
• Manual approval-based certificates (application + review flow)
• Certificate generation in PDF
• Student and instructor certificate dashboards

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🛠️ Semi-Admin Panel (Built on Top of Django Admin)

🔐 User Management

• View all platform users
• Toggle:
  • is_banned to restrict access
  • is_semi_admin to grant limited admin powers

🧑‍🏫 Teacher Applications

• Application model includes:
  • Education, skills, expertise, past experience
• Semi-admins can:
  • View and filter applications
  • Approve, reject, or hold
  • (Optional) Auto-promote approved users to teachers

👨‍🎓 Student Panel

• List of all students
• See enrolled courses and certificates earned
• Ban/unban functionality via interface

📦 Course Takedown System

• Courses have an is_visible flag
• Semi-admins can:
  • Hide or restore any course
• Hidden courses are excluded from:
  • Listings
  • Enrollments
  • Student dashboards

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⚙️ Tech Stack

Backend

• Django
• Django REST Framework
• Simple JWT
• PostgreSQL
• ReportLab / WeasyPrint (for PDF certificates)

Frontend

• React
• Axios
• TailwindCSS
• React Router

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🧪 Development Setup

# Backend
cd backend
python -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

# Frontend
cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev

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🛡️ Roles & Permissions

Role	Access
Student	Enroll in courses, track progress, earn certs
Teacher	Create courses, upload content & assignments
Semi-Admin	Moderate users & content, review applications
Superuser	Full access including Django Admin

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🙌 Contributions

You are welcome to contribute! Just fork the repo, make your changes, and open a pull request.

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📃 License

MIT License