Micro Proctoring

This is a server of microproctoring service. It's been written on flask and uses uwsgi for deploy. The frontend part is stored in a separate repo. It's been written on react.

To make the things work you need:

1. Install and run microproctoring server. (It's described below)
2. Compile frontend part using react
3. Place *.js files got from the previous step to the static folder on server. Update index.html of the server using index.html compiled by react.

Prerequirements:

• Ubuntu 20. (Other systems are also possible, but there may be some issues)

Firstly install

• Python3
• pip
• venv
• sqlite

Prepare to run the app:

1. Clone the repo and navigate to it:

git clone https://github.com/morriell/micro_proctoring.git
cd micro-proctoring

2. Create virtualenv and activate it:

python3 -m virtualenv venv
source ./venv/bin/activate

3. Install requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Create database using python interactive comand line:

$ python3
Python 3.8.5 (default, Jul 28 2020, 12:59:40) 
[GCC 9.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from project import db, create_app
>>> db.create_all(app=create_app()) 

Now db.sqlite file should appear in project folder

Everything is ready to get launched.

Run app

Remember to get virtualenv activated (See p.2 from above).

To run locally, the app should be started with develop config:

export CONF_NAME=dev; flask run

Now you can check localhost:500 for the app

ToDo

• Replace profile page with relevant one
• Create start and stop record buttons
• Update a page with link to the record done (redirect after stop record)
• Replace css with a local one
• Add a timer to recieve_photo method. The timer returns time left till the max session length
• Show the timer if less then 30 min left
• Send photoes using ajax POST
• Create a method to start the record session. May be add a new field to DB
• Create a method to accept pictures and store them. Name of a picture should be a timestamp
• Create a method to finish record session
• Create a page to show artifacts
• Create a separate table for sessions
• Make an archive from fotos, place a timastamp file nearby and return a link to this folder after record was stopped
• Create a script that removes outdated records
• Translate all menus etc
• Write some instructions for users
• Add deployment configs
• Add e-mail based authorization