A web-based quiz management platform with an AI-powered assistant, built as a thesis project. NovaLC lets students and educators create, share, and take quizzes — all in a clean, modern interface with dark mode support.

• User Authentication — Register and log in with secure bcrypt-hashed passwords
• Dashboard — View personal stats: quiz sets created, quizzes taken, average score, and best score
• Quiz Builder — Create multi-question quiz sets with multiple-choice answers, subject tags, and public/private visibility
• Quiz Discovery — Browse and take publicly shared quizzes from other users
• Nova Assistant — Floating AI chatbot powered by a local Python backend for in-app help
• Dark Mode — System-aware theme toggle across all pages
• Admin Role — Role-based access control (is_admin flag) for privileged users

NovaLC/
├── index.html                  # Landing page
├── api/
│   ├── config.php              # Database connection
│   ├── auth/
│   │   ├── login.php           # POST /api/auth/login
│   │   ├── register,php        # POST /api/auth/register
│   │   ├── logout.php          # Session logout
│   │   └── session.php         # Session check
│   ├── dashboard/
│   │   └── stats.php           # GET user stats
│   └── quiz/
│       ├── create.php          # POST create quiz set
│       └── get_mine.php        # GET user's quiz sets
├── assets/
│   ├── css/
│   │   ├── style.css           # Custom styles
│   │   └── tailwind.min.css    # Tailwind (local fallback)
│   └── js/
│       ├── auth.js             # Login/register logic
│       ├── chatbot.js          # Nova Assistant chatbot UI
│       ├── main.js             # General utilities
│       └── theme.js            # Dark mode toggle
└── pages/
    ├── login.html              # Login & registration page
    ├── dashboard.html          # User dashboard
    └── quiz-create.html        # Quiz creation form

• XAMPP (Apache + MySQL)
• PHP 7.4+
• A Python environment for the Nova Assistant chatbot (optional)

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/NovaLC.git

2. Move to your XAMPP htdocs folder

   C:/xampp/htdocs/NovaLC/
   

3. Create the database

   • Open phpMyAdmin (http://localhost/phpmyadmin)
   • Create a database named nova_lc
   • Import the SQL schema (if provided) or create the following tables manually:
     • users — id, username, email, password, is_admin
     • quiz_sets — id, user_id, title, description, subject, is_public
     • questions — id, quiz_set_id, question_text, choices (JSON), correct_index
     • attempts — id, user_id, quiz_set_id, score, total

4. Configure the database in api/config.php:

   define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
   define('DB_USER', 'root');
   define('DB_PASS', '');        // Set your MySQL password if any
   define('DB_NAME', 'nova_lc');

5. Start Apache and MySQL in XAMPP Control Panel.

6. Open the app at http://localhost/NovaLC/

The chatbot connects to a local Python Flask server. Start your backend and update the API URL in assets/js/chatbot.js:

const NOVA_API_URL = "http://127.0.0.1:5000/ask";
// Or replace with your ngrok URL for demos:
// const NOVA_API_URL = "https://your-id.ngrok-free.app/ask";

No default credentials are seeded. Register a new account via the Sign Up page. To make a user an admin, manually set is_admin = 1 in the users table via phpMyAdmin.

This project is currently under active development as a thesis. Some features (e.g., Discover page, Progress tracking) are still being implemented.

• [Your Name] — Developer
• Built as a thesis project

For academic use only. All rights reserved.