🎓 EduFolio -- Centralised Digital Platform for Comprehensive Student Activity Record in HEIs

EduFolio is a centralised web platform designed to record, validate, and showcase student achievements in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
It streamlines the process of documenting academic and extracurricular activities, enables faculty validation, provides AI-powered guidance, and integrates with institutional and company workflows.

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✨ Core Features

✅ Required Features

• Student Activity Records -- Upload certificates, qualifications, experiences, and achievements.\
• Faculty Validation -- Faculty can verify submitted student documents.\
• Activity Tracker -- Track verified activities and progress over time.\
• Resume Builder & Download -- Generate a consolidated resume with one click.\
• Analytics & Reporting -- Automated compliance reporting for AICTE, NAAC, etc.\
• Integration -- Support for connecting with existing institutional systems.

💡 Suggested Features (Planned Roadmap)

• Student Guide (AI RAG LLM)
  • Goal-setting and progress tracking.\
  • Personalized recommendations (internships, projects, skills).\
  • Visual progress bars and next-step suggestions.\
• Company Accounts
  • Internship and job postings.\
  • Direct student applications and shortlisting.\
• Faculty--Student Interaction
  • Social tab for mentoring and guidance.\
  • Future roadmap: paid counselling sessions with booking system.

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👥 Account Types

• Developer -- Full access with testing dashboards.\
• Student -- Upload documents, generate resume, apply for jobs, request guidance.\
• Institution Faculty -- Verify student documents, support interactions, and validations.\
• Company -- Post job/internship openings, review resumes, offer positions.

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• Frontend: React.js (Vite + TypeScript) with Tailwind CSS\
• Backend: FastAPI + Uvicorn\
• Database:
  • MongoDB -- Account data, job postings, requests\
  • PostgreSQL -- Authentication, login sessions\
  • ChromaDB -- Vector DB for semantic search and RAG\
• AI/ML:
  • HuggingFace -- Pre-trained LLM hosting\
  • LangChain -- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) orchestration\
• Authentication: JWT (JSON Web Tokens)

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🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js >= 18\
• Python >= 3.10\
• MongoDB & PostgreSQL instances running\
• (Optional) ChromaDB setup for vector embeddings

Installation

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/EduFolio.git
   cd EduFolio

2. Frontend Setup

   cd frontend
   npm install
   npm run dev

3. Backend Setup

   cd backend
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   uvicorn main:app --reload

4. Environment Variables
   Create a .env file in both frontend & backend with:

   MONGO_URI=your_mongo_connection
   POSTGRES_URI=your_postgres_connection
   JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret
   HUGGINGFACE_API_KEY=your_hf_api_key
   

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📊 Roadmap

• Student portfolio with achievements & resume export\
• Faculty document verification module\
• AI-powered student guide (LLM + RAG)\
• Company dashboard for job/internship postings\
• Faculty--student interaction system\
• Institution-wide analytics dashboards (AICTE/NAAC reports)

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🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please fork this repo and submit a pull request.
For major changes, open an issue first to discuss your ideas.

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License -- see the LICENSE file for details.

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👨‍💻 Developers

• Project Lead -- Meeth
• Team Members -- Harsh, Ansh, Anjali, Tavleen