📚 Smart Classroom & AI Timetable Scheduler

A MERN-based Smart Classroom Management System that helps manage faculties, rooms, and courses, while automatically generating an AI-powered timetable that assigns the right faculty to the right course. It also includes a chatbot for students and faculty to query the timetable in real time.

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🚀 Features

• 👨‍🏫 Faculty Management

  • Add, update, and manage faculty members with their expertise.

• 🏫 Room Management

  • Add classrooms with seating capacity and availability.

• 📘 Course Management

  • Create and assign courses with prerequisites and credit details.

• 📅 AI Timetable Generator

  • Automatically generates an optimized timetable.
  • Ensures no clashes between rooms, faculty, and courses.
  • Maps correct faculty to correct courses based on expertise.

• 🤖 AI Chatbot

  • Students and faculty can ask about class schedules.
  • Provides quick answers like "When is my next class?" or "Which room is CS101?".

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• Frontend: React.js, Tailwind CSS
• Backend: Node.js, Express.js
• Database: MongoDB
• AI: Timetable generation algorithm (genetic algorithm/constraint satisfaction)
• Chatbot: AI-powered assistant

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📂 Project Structure

smart-classroom/
├── backend/           # Node.js + Express APIs
│   ├── models/        # Faculty, Room, Course schemas
│   ├── routes/        # API routes
│   └── controllers/   # Logic for handling requests
├── frontend/          # React.js client
│   ├── components/    # Reusable UI components
│   ├── pages/         # Pages (Dashboard, Timetable, Chatbot)
│   └── utils/         # Helper functions
├── ai/                # Timetable generation + chatbot logic
└── README.md          # Project documentation

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⚙️ Installation

1. Clone the repository

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

2. Backend setup

   cd backend
   npm install
   npm start

3. Frontend setup

   cd frontend
   npm install
   npm run dev

4. Environment Variables

   • Create a .env file in backend/ with:

     MONGO_URI=your_mongodb_connection
     PORT=5000
     AI_API_KEY=your_ai_key_if_any
     

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🎯 Future Enhancements

• 📊 Dashboard with analytics for faculty workload and room usage.
• 🔔 Notification system for class changes/cancellations.
• 🧑‍🎓 Student portal with personalized schedules.
• 🌐 Multi-language support for chatbot.

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to fork this repo and submit a pull request.

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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💡 Acknowledgements

• MERN Stack community
• GeminiAI / Dialogflow for chatbot inspiration
• Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) & Genetic Algorithms for timetable generation

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👉 Would you like me to also add some sample screenshots / usage GIF placeholders in the README so it looks more professional on GitHub?