Prof-AI-cademy

🧠 ProfAIcademy

🚀 Inspiration

Education often lacks real-time personalization and insight, especially for students juggling multiple courses and deadlines. We wanted to build an AI-powered academic assistant that not only generates quizzes from study material but also tracks assignments, offers intelligent insights, and adapts to each student’s learning path.

💡 What it does

ProfAIcademy is an academic companion that helps students: • 📄 Upload PDFs or Images of notes and auto-generate multiple-choice quizzes. • 📆 Sync Courses and Assignments from Canvas LMS. • 💬 Chat with an AI Assistant that understands their workload and performance using OpenAI/Gemini. • 📊 Track Quiz Results and receive feedback on weak areas. • 🔐 Securely manage user credentials with JWT-based authentication.

🛠️ How we built it

We used a modern and modular tech stack: • Frontend: React (Next.js) + Tailwind CSS • Backend: FastAPI • Database: MongoDB Atlas • LLMs: OpenAI (gpt-3.5-turbo) + Gemini 1.5 Pro • Canvas LMS: Integrated via API

📦 MongoDB Collections

We heavily relied on MongoDB to structure and persist academic data:

Collection and Purpose for MongoDB Atlas DB Collections

users Stores hashed usernames & passwords

profile Contains user profile info from Canvas

courses Synced Canvas course data per user

assignments Synced assignments with due dates, grading type, etc.

quizzes Stores AI-generated quiz questions

chats
Optionally stores chat logs with AI

🧗 Challenges we ran into

• ⏳ Managing token expiration and syncing Canvas data securely
• 🧠 Parsing AI responses reliably into structured quizzes
• 🔐 Securely storing and validating user sessions with JWT
• 🌍 Deploying both backend and frontend while supporting real-time chat

🏆 Accomplishments that we’re proud of

• Successfully integrated LLMs with context-aware prompts
• Real-time assignment tracking and quiz generation
• Used MongoDB as a central backbone to power personalized learning
• Created a chatbot that gives meaningful academic feedback based on live data

📚 What we learned

• How to build a full-stack app with secure login, external API integrations, and LLMs
• Crafting system prompts for LLMs to generate structured and relevant output
• MongoDB indexing and schema flexibility for educational applications
• Parsing PDF and image data effectively to extract useful content

🔮 What’s next for ProfAIcademy

• 🎯 Add support for grading insights based on assignment scores
• 📱 Launch mobile version for students on-the-go
• 📊 Build a student dashboard with visual analytics and progress tracking
• 🤝 Allow teachers to input and validate quiz content
• 🧩 Integrate more LMS platforms like Blackboard or Moodle

Built With

• fastapi
• next.js
• python
• react