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Collaborative Learning Platform With Real-Time Chat and Course Search

Added Jun 2025 3 design docs

Online learning too often means watching videos alone; real education is collaborative, with discussion, shared materials, and instructors who respond in the moment. This project builds a learning management system designed around that collaboration rather than treating it as an add-on.

The intern develops a Django and Python backend with PostgreSQL modeling courses, enrollments, materials, and conversations, and integrates Elasticsearch so students can instantly search across course catalogs and content. Real-time chat connects students and instructors inside each course, file uploads let both sides share materials, and role-based access separates students, instructors, and administrators. Authentication supports OAuth login alongside standard accounts, and protected routes keep course content restricted to enrolled users. The frontend is built with Next.js, React, and TypeScript, styled with Tailwind CSS for a responsive, modern learning experience.

The project stretches the intern across real-time features, search infrastructure, and third-party authentication in one coherent product, demonstrating the ability to assemble multiple advanced subsystems into a scalable platform, the defining skill of senior fullstack work.

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