Aristotle Education Platform

: https://aristotle.luscinia.ca

Overview

The Aristotle Education platform is a project currently under development that aims to provide a interactive education experience using machine learning to help teachers access deeper and more relevant insights into their students' education.

Timeline

We are currently working towards a 2021 Alpha release beginning with a set of resources designed for Grade 9 level math and science following the BC Curriculum.

Technical Details

Contributing

If you would like to help out with small code changes, feel free to submit a pull request, if you would like to become involved in a larger capacity, contact development@luscinia.ca.

Environment

The following environment variables can be configured

• SPRING_REDIS_URL
  • required
  • sets the connection string for a redis database
  • Aristotle uses Redis for session persistence in stateless mode and for persisting tokens across microservices
• SPRING_MONGO_URL
  • required
  • sets the connection string for a mongodb database
  • Aristotle uses MongoDB for persisting all application related data except certain specific files
  • hosted Aristotle utilises Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB with shard keys stored as the 'uuid' field
• SPRING_SENDGRID_KEY
  • required (to be optional in future updates)
  • allows Aristotle to send email
  • This will become optional in the future allowing users a choice between MailJet and SendGrid (potentially SMTP)
• ARISTOTLE_DATAENTRY_URL
  • required (defaults to entry.aristotle.luscinia.ca)
  • indicates classic data entry tool to be used by admins in the admin portal
  • will be deprecated when non-assessment resources tool is created
• SPRING_SECURITY_TOKENKEY
  • required
  • used as a secret key to sign remember me tokens
  • it is recommended that this is set to a randomly generated string
• SPRING_SECURITY_ALLOWEDIP
  • required
  • used to restrict admin account creation to specific ipv6 addresses
  • must be in CIDR notation, to allow all IPs (not recommended) set to 0/0
• SECURITY_USE_TWILIO
  • required (defaults to false)
  • enable/disable Twilio Services
  • must be enabled to use sms/phone authentication
  • SECURITY_TWILIO_SID
    • required (if SECURITY_USE_TWILIO is true)
    • set to twilio account SID
  • SECURITY_TWILIO_TOKEN
    • required (if SECURITY_USE_TWILIO is true)
    • set to twilio api key