Planet Express LMS

 

Tools

  • C#

  • ASP.NET

  • Razor Pages

  • Bootstrap

  • CSS

  • MS SQL SERVER

  • AZURE CLOUD

  • SELENIUM

Contributions

  • Full-stack Development

  • Visual Design

  • Unit Testing

  • UI Testing

  • Stripe API Integration

The Planet Express LMS project is a senior-year final project, which I completed with a team of five, over the course of Fall Semester 2022. The goal of the project was to build a Canvas-like web application from the ground up, with an agile workflow organized during weekly sprints. This included account management, student and instructor roles and permissions, course and assignment creation, submissions and grading, tuition and payment via Stripe API, and cloud hosting via Microsoft Azure. Though our main focus was on function, additional emphasis was put on UI and UX, to create a visually exciting and intuitive design for the user.

Razor Pages API

As a team, we decided to build our application using ASP.NET and Razor Pages. In hindsight, I’m very glad we did. It proved to be fairly simple and intuitive, once we got the hang of it, and allowed us to quickly implement new functionality, without having to pass data in the traditional model-view-controller flow. The API we created for our Learning Management System allows instructors to create courses and assignments, and grade submissions, students to enroll in courses, submit assignments, view their grades and pay their tuition, and all users to manage their account information and stay up to date with the calendar.

Selenium UI Testing

Selenium was used to run tests on our UI, and was completed for three of the most popular browsers, Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.

UI and UX Design

Though function was the main focus of this project, we wanted our web app to be fun and intuitive to use in the end. Vibrant colors with clean and available information was the goal.