MyTracker

A personal productivity tool for teachers — plan lessons, collect anonymous student feedback, track your attendance, and manage your salary and expenses, all in one place.

Built with Django + plain HTML/CSS/JS. Uses SQLite locally and switches to Postgres automatically when deployed.

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What's inside

Area	What it does
Dashboard	Balance, monthly spending, average feedback, attendance, and charts at a glance
Class-Subjects	One page per subject-in-a-class, tying together lesson plans + feedback
Lesson plans	Objectives, materials, homework, assessment; reusable templates; Draft/Taught status
Feedback	Anonymous daily ratings via a shareable link + QR code (5 dimensions, 1–5)
Attendance	Present by default — just tap a day to mark yourself absent
Finance	Record salary and expenses; running balance and monthly breakdown (NPR)

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1) Run it on your computer (VS Code)

You need Python 3.12+. These commands go in the VS Code terminal (Terminal → New Terminal), run from the project folder.

Option A — using uv (recommended)

uv venv
# Activate it:
#   Windows (PowerShell):  .venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1
#   macOS/Linux:           source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install -r requirements.txt

python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

Option B — using plain pip

python -m venv .venv
# Activate (see commands above), then:
pip install -r requirements.txt

python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

Now open http://127.0.0.1:8000 in your browser.

• Click Create an account on the login page to make your teacher login.
• That's it — start adding class-subjects.

Optional: to use the /admin area, create an admin user with python manage.py createsuperuser.

A local .env (optional)

Copy .env.example to .env if you want to set your own SECRET_KEY. Locally you can ignore the database settings — the app uses SQLite automatically.

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2) Put it on GitHub

1. Create a new empty repository on GitHub (no README, since you already have one).
2. In the VS Code terminal:

git init
git add .
git commit -m "MyTracker initial commit"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPO.git
git push -u origin main

db.sqlite3 and .env are already in .gitignore, so your local data and secrets won't be uploaded.

Easier alternative — PythonAnywhere (free, keeps SQLite)

If the Postgres step feels like too much, PythonAnywhere runs Django with SQLite directly on its free tier — no separate database needed.

1. Sign up at https://www.pythonanywhere.com (free "Beginner" account).
2. Upload your project (or pull from GitHub in a Bash console).
3. Create a virtualenv and pip install -r requirements.txt.
4. Add a Web app → Manual config (Django), point it at mytracker/wsgi.py, set the virtualenv path, run python manage.py migrate, and reload.

Full guide: https://help.pythonanywhere.com/pages/DeployExistingDjangoProject/

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Project structure

mytracker/
├── mytracker/        # project settings, urls, wsgi
├── accounts/         # login, signup, profile/settings
├── courses/          # class-subjects (the hub)
├── lessons/          # lesson plans + templates
├── feedback/         # anonymous feedback + QR codes
├── attendance/       # present/absent calendar
├── finance/          # salary, expenses, balance
├── dashboard/        # analytics home
├── templates/        # base layout + auth pages
├── static/css/       # the design system
├── requirements.txt
├── vercel.json       # Vercel deploy config
├── build_files.sh    # runs on Vercel (collectstatic + migrate)
└── .env.example

Coming later (Advanced AI version)

The feedback is stored as numeric trends so a future version can add AI features (suggest improvements, recommend techniques, auto-draft lesson plans, summarise trends) on top — using your Groq/LangChain stack.