Student Task Tracker – Project Overview

What Is It?

Student Task Tracker is a full-stack web application designed to help instructors assign, track, and manage tasks for students, while also allowing students to manage their own tasks and update their progress. It supports both personal tasks (created by students for themselves) and assigned tasks (created by instructors for all students).

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Key Features

• Role-Based Access:

  • Instructors: Can create, update, and delete tasks for all students, and monitor each student's progress.
  • Students: Can create their own tasks, view tasks assigned by instructors, update status, and manage their personal to-dos.

• Task Management:

  • Task creation with title, description, due date, and priority (low/medium/high).
  • Each task has a status (pending/completed).
  • Instructors assign the same task to all students; each student gets an individual instance.
  • Students can only update the status of instructor-assigned tasks, but can fully edit their own personal tasks.

• Dashboards:

  • Instructor Dashboard: Group and track all assigned tasks, see completion progress per task and student, filter/search tasks.
  • Student Dashboard: View all assigned tasks and personal tasks, filter and search, update status, edit/delete own tasks.

• UI/UX:

  • Responsive design; works on mobile and desktop.
  • User-friendly modals for task creation and editing.
  • Overview/statistics widgets (total tasks, completed, pending, etc.).
  • Real-time feedback via toasts (success/error messages).

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How Does It Work?

1. Authentication & Roles

• Users log in and are assigned a role (student or instructor).
• Role is checked server-side for every task operation, ensuring proper permissions.

2. Task Creation Logic

• Instructors: When an instructor creates a task, it is individually assigned to all students in the system.
• Students: When a student creates a task, it is only for themselves.

3. Task Model

• Each task has:
  • createdBy: User who created it.
  • assignedTo: User the task is assigned to (all students for instructor tasks; self for personal tasks).
  • title, description, dueDate, priority, status.

4. Task Operations

• Instructors:
  • Can view all tasks they've created (across all students).
  • Can update any task they've created (for any student).
  • Can delete any task they've created.
• Students:
  • Can view all their own tasks and those assigned by instructors.
  • Can create, edit, and delete their own tasks.
  • Can only update the status (not content) of tasks assigned by an instructor.

5. Grouping and Statistics

• Tasks are grouped by instructor and student for efficient display.
• Progress for each task can be seen (e.g., X out of Y students completed).

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Technical Stack

• Frontend: React.js (with modern hooks, context for authentication, and modular components)

  • Pages: DashBoard.jsx, StudentDashboard.jsx, InstructorDashboard.jsx, Home.jsx
  • Components: CreateTask.jsx, statistics widgets, modals, etc.
  • Libraries: likely uses a UI library (e.g., Material-UI or Shadcn), toast notifications, date pickers.

• Backend: Node.js with Express.js

  • RESTful API endpoints for tasks, users.
  • Role-based middleware for authorization.
  • Controllers: task.controller.js handles logic for create, update, delete, and fetch.
  • Models: Mongoose schemas for Task and User.

• Database: MongoDB (via Mongoose)

  • Stores users (with roles) and tasks.

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Example User Flows

Instructor:

1. Logs in → sees a dashboard of all tasks they've assigned.
2. Clicks "Assign New Task" → fills out form (title, description, due date, priority) → submits → task is assigned to ALL students.
3. Can view each task group’s progress (how many students completed).
4. Can edit/update/delete tasks they assigned.

Student:

1. Logs in → sees dashboard with all tasks assigned by instructor + personal tasks.
2. Can create new personal tasks.
3. Can update status of any task (own or assigned).
4. Can edit/delete their own personal tasks, but not instructor-assigned ones (except status).

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Summary

Student Task Tracker is a robust, role-based task management solution for educational environments, supporting clear separation between instructor and student workflows, detailed tracking, and an extensible design.