Iira

Online integrated platform for projects taken up by the students of various universities/colleges

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Table Of Contents

• About the Project
• Takeaways
• Unique Selling Points
• Demonstration & Features
• Technologies Used
• Contributing
• Authors

About The Project

Challenges Faced by University

• Lack of Central Repository: There might be a lack of a centralized repository for student projects, making it difficult to showcase the collective achievements of the institution.
• Innovation Promotion: Some universities may struggle to create a culture of innovation and research among students due to limited exposure to diverse projects.
• Resource Allocation: Allocating resources to support student projects and provide necessary infrastructure can be challenging.
• Competitive Pressure: Universities may face the challenge of maintaining competitiveness and attracting talented students in a rapidly evolving educational landscape.

Challenges Faced by Students

• Limited Exposure: In spite of having many states, there is lack of communication among them on the grounds of project development.
• Plagiarism Concerns: Students are in need of a platform that maintains the authenticy of project ownership.
• Kick start project: Vast majority of students lack the idea of how to begin a project and its initial requirments.
• Project volunteering: Few projects lay down due to lack of volunteering support or financial support.
• Language Gap: Vast Majority of Indian students are not familiar with English language

Challenges Faced by Faculty

• Assessment Burden: Assessing a large number of student projects can be time-consuming and may require additional resources.
• Limited Resources: Teachers may face constraints in providing a diverse range of project ideas and resources to students, potentially limiting the scope of student projects.
• Innovation Gap: Teachers may face difficulty in staying updated with the latest innovative trends and projects happening in other institutions.

Takeaways

• The problem statement recognizes the importance of innovation in education, particularly in universities and colleges.
• The proposal suggests creating a common knowledge platform where students can share their project works.
• The platform is expected to include a plagiarism detection feature, which can help ensure the originality of the projects shared by students.
• The platform is intended to support peer learning, allowing students to gain insights from projects undertaken by their peers in other institutions.
• The platform's information could potentially foster cross-functional research collaborations between universities and colleges, encouraging joint projects and research initiatives.
• The initiative is proposed to be implemented at a national level, involving universities and colleges throughout the country, thereby promoting a broader exchange of ideas and knowledge.

Unique Selling Points

• SCRUTINIZED LOGIN OF USERS: Implemented a hierarchy of user to maintain accessing rights and making sure the university has the supreme role over the colleges and its students
• CROSS-DISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION: Platform suggests interdisciplinary projects, fostering collaborations like bioinformatics for CS and biology students.
• Future SCOPE RECOMMENDATION: Helping students to get new innovative ideas on thier uploaded projects, and help others to take that project for enhancements
• COMPREHENSIVE ANALYTICS: Institutions access performance data, project rates, and collaboration analytics, enhancing curriculum refinement through data-driven insights.
• KICKSTART PROJECT: Helping students to get new innovative ideas and put their high efforts there rather than finding ideas.

Demonstration

Student Panel

student_panel.mp4

SPOC Panel

SPOC_panel.mp4

Multi Languange Functionality

mult_language.mp4

Technologies Used

• Workflow and Architecture Design
  • SmartDraw
• Frontend
  • React.js
  • CSS
• Backend
  • Node.js (Express.js)
  • PostgreSQL - SQL Database
• Machine Learning
  • NLP(cosine similarity)
  • Matrix Factorization
  • Content-based filtering
  • Llm

Contributing

Local Setup || Project Structure

NOTE: Individual instructions can be found in respective directories.

• The project contains 4 broad directories.

*
├───client
└───server

• client: The frontend for the application.
• server: The backend for the application.

Client

For local setup of frontend:

• cd client
• npm i
• npm run dev
• Go to localhost:5137

Structure

src
├───assets
├───components
├───Screens
├───App.jsx
└───main.jsx

Individual Component & Screens Structure

component
├───component.jsx
└───component.css

Screens
├───page.jsx
└───page.css

Server

For local setup of backend:

• cd server
• npm i
• npm start

server
├───middlewares
├───prisma
├───routes
├───utils
├───index.js
└───package.json

Authors

• Hamza Sayyed
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• Om Shete
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• Mohib Abbas Sayed
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• Parth Puranik
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• Abhishek Upadhyay
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• Sakshi Bhandari
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