Basic Learning Management System (BasicLMS)

BasicLMS is a web application that mainly consists of the following modules:

• 1. About BasicLMS
• 2. APIs
• 3. Modules Explanation
• 4. Administration Panel
  • 4.1. Users' Actions Tracking
  • 4.2. News Updating
  • 4.3. Adding/Assigning Roles
  • 4.4. Assigning Permissions to Roles
• 5. Courses
• 6. Quiz
• 7. Plagiarism
• 8. Assignment
• 9. Submission Tracking
• 10. Registration
• 11. Announcements
• 12. User Profile
• 13. Installation
  • 13.1. Requirements
  • 13.2. Guide
    • 13.2.1. Database Configuration
      • 13.2.1.1. Database Seeding
      • 13.2.1.2. Database Demo
  • 13.3. Generate Application Key
  • 13.4. Accounts
    • 13.4.1. Default credentials
  • 13.5. Sandbox
  • 13.6. Run
• 14. Security Vulnerabilities
• 15. Known Issues

1. About BasicLMS

The BasicLMS is a pure educational Learning Management System. It does not serve all purposes of an LMS. However, it provides a proof of concept of what could be implemeneted and integrated. Works on Unix-like operating systems.

2. APIs

We would like to extend our thanks to the following APIs and their developers.

• Zizcao/Entrust

• yusufsyaifudin/grader-library

  • Forked and optimized andrewnaguib/grader-library

• Time and Date

• MOSS

3. Modules Explanation

4. Administration Panel

When you sign in using the superuser account (see Database Configuration) , you will see a clickable note that forwards you to security questions web page.

After you click it, the following three security questions will appear:

💡	The answers are: dummy1, dummy2, and dummy3. They are editable through the panel.

4.1. Users' Actions Tracking

4.2. News Updating

4.3. Adding/Assigning Roles

4.4. Assigning Permissions to Roles

Follow the beneath steps:

1. Navigate to "User Management"

2. Click "Roles"

3. "Edit" any of the shown roles to modify/add their permissions

We recommend:

1. All "Security Privileges" for the "superuser" role.

2. All "High Educational Privileges" for the "instructor" role along with "edit-profile" from "Other Privileges".

3. All "Low Education Privileges" for the "student" role along with "edit-profile" from "Other Privileges".

4. "view-course", "view-announcement", and "edit-profile" for the "guest" role.

However, you can design your own role/permission combination.

5. Courses

6. Quiz

7. Plagiarism

8. Assignment

9. Submission Tracking

10. Registration

11. Announcements

12. User Profile

13. Installation

13.1. Requirements

• C/C++ Dependencies and Compilers

• Perl Dependencies

• Composer: Check Composer Official Website

13.2. Guide

In your terminal,

• Clone: git clone https://github.com/ci-oc/basic-lms-laravel.git

• Navigate: cd basic-lms-laravel

• Update your depencencies as they are specified in composer.json: composer update

• Composer re-reads the composer.json file to build up the list of files to autoload: composer dump-autoload

• Create a cache file for faster configuration loading: php artisan config:cache

• Flush the application cache: php artisan config:clear

13.2.1. Database Configuration

• cat .env.example >> .env

• vim .env

Then configure your database credentials in the following part:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=DATABASE_NAME
DB_USERNAME=MYSQL_USERNAME # default is root
DB_PASSWORD=MYSQL_PASSWORD

Also make sure you have the following configuration in your .env file.

BROADCAST_DRIVER=log
CACHE_DRIVER=array
SESSION_DRIVER=file
QUEUE_DRIVER=database

13.2.1.1. Database Seeding

In order to seed database with accounts. Please run the following command: - php artisan migrate --seed

If you want to disable seeding for specific table. Please open the following file. - vim PATH/TO/basic-lms-laravel/database/seeds/DatabaseSeeder.php

And then you can comment by # any of the following seeders.

💡	But note that you can only comment/uncomment instructors and/or students seeders, because superuser accounts are only created through seeding.

Example:

$this->call(PermissionTableSeeder::class);
$this->call(JudgeOptionsSeeder::class);
$this->call(RoleTableSeeder::class);
$this->call(SuperUserTableSeeder::class);
$this->call(SecurityURLSeeder::class);
# $this->call(InstructorsTableSeeder::class);
# $this->call(StudentsTableSeeder::class);
$this->call(CodingLanguagesSeeder::class);

13.2.1.2. Database Demo

Click here

13.3. Generate Application Key

php artisan key:generate

13.4. Accounts

13.4.1. Default credentials

Please go to your DBMS and view users table. First two records are the superusers accounts, next 20 are instructors, the 20 after them are students.

• Default password: "secret" (without quotes).

13.5. Sandbox

• Please refer to this README

13.6. Run

In order to host it on local area network, run the following command:

• ifconfig | grep inet

then replace [IP] with your IP.

• php artisan serve --host=[IP] --port=8000

To host it on local machine:

• php artisan serve

And run the following command in order to run Online Judge Queue and Mails Queue (with priority to judge queue first)

• php artisan queue:listen --queue=remark,emails

To activate plagiarism detection using MOSS run:

• php artisan remark

14. Security Vulnerabilities

If you discover a security vulnerability within BasicLMS, please post an issue. All security vulnerabilities will be addressd.

15. Known Issues

In case of receiving the following exception BadMethodCallException. Please run this two commands:

• php artisan config:cache

• php artisan config:clear