EdPal Self-Evaluation and Careers Recommendation system

EdPal is a self Evaluation and career recommendation system targeting learners age 12~18 as they try to make their career decisions. The system provides comprehensive assessments in bid to recommend the best careers that aligned with the learners' passions and education stregth. It is backed and contributed by various educationalists in Kenya.

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Project overview

Apps Currently in the project

Functionality/App	Brief Description
core	Shared abstractions and functionalities across the other apps
assessment	Questionnaires (versioned), Questions, AnswerChoices, question banks,QuestionResponse, QuestionnaireAttempt — the write-hot tables,ScoringRule, AttemptScore
careers	Career, Course, Institution, SubjectRequirement, CutoffCluster Follows KUCCPS model
accounts	Custom User model, UserProfile, subject enrollment, career preferences with ranking

Technology Stack

Language	Role
Python 3.12+	Primary development language for all layers
HTML	Mark up language
CSS	styling language
JS	DOM manipulation,fetch APIS, edge processing

Web framework and API

Component	Technology
Web server	Django 5.x + Django REST Framework
Async server	Uvicorn (ASGI)
Process manager	Gunicorn with Uvicorn workers
Real-time push	Django Channels (WebSocket)

Data storage

Store	Purpose
PostgreSQL	Relational data: users, etc
Redis	Celery and Channels

Messaging

Component	Role
RabbitMQ	Task queue backend for Celery background workers

License

GNU General Public License (GPL3)