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Student Management System (Django)

A comprehensive student management platform engineered with Django.

This system delivers robust role-based functionality, featuring secure authentication, dedicated dashboards, course administration, and automated email notifications. It leverages Django's robust architectural patterns to ensure a clean, scalable, and maintainable codebase.

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✨ Core Features

Role-Based Architecture

  • Custom User Models: Implements an extended Django AbstractUser to cleanly separate Admin and Student entities, paving the way for differentiated access and profiling.
  • Dedicated Dashboards: Provides isolated UI environments tailored for administrators (managing users, courses, and system health) and students (accessing enrollments, schedules, and grades).

Academic & Notification Systems

  • Course Management: End-to-end CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations for courses, subjects, and academic scheduling.
  • Email Notifications: Integrated SMTP functionality to dispatch automated alerts for enrollments, password resets, and important administrative announcements.
  • Comprehensive CRUD Operations: Full database interaction capabilities for all major platform models, protected by robust data validation and permission checks.

🛠️ Technology Stack

  • Backend Framework: Django (Python)
  • Database: SQLite (Development) / PostgreSQL (Production ready)
  • Frontend Template: Django HTML Templates combined with static CSS and JS
  • Authentication: Django's built-in Auth backend with Session Management
  • Mailing: Django django.core.mail module integrated with standard SMTP interfaces

🏗️ Architectural Highlights

Clean MVT Pattern

The application strictly follows Django's Model-View-Template (MVT) architecture: 1. Models: Defines the relational data structure specifically architected around customized abstract/base user models. 2. Views: Handles business logic, leveraging Django's Class-Based Views (CBVs) for reusability and DRY compliance. 3. Templates: Renders dynamic, securely escaped UI elements utilizing the Django Template Language (DTL).

Security Measures

  • CSRF protection enabled on all unified forms.
  • SQL Injection mitigation natively handled by Django's ORM.
  • Proper view decorators (@login_required, custom permission decorators) guarding sensitive routes.

🏁 Installation & Setup

To deploy the platform in a local development environment:

  1. Clone the project: 

    git clone https://github.com/ashif-ek/student-management-django-task.git
cd student-management-django-task

  2. Create and activate a virtual environment: 

    python -m venv venv
# On Windows
venv\Scripts\activate
# On macOS/Linux
source venv/bin/activate

  3. Install dependencies: 

    pip install -r requirements.txt

  4. Apply database migrations: 

    python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

  5. Create a superuser (Admin): 

    python manage.py createsuperuser

  6. Run the development server: 

    python manage.py runserver

  7. Access the application: Navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in your web browser.