TA Tutoring

Unlike traditional TA sessions limited to office hours or labs, SmartLearn’s TA Tutoring is precision-targeted. Support is automatically offered to students who fail the quizzes twice, which ensures help goes to those who need it most, right when they need it.

Our tutoring system is backed by intelligent automation. From detecting students who need help, to integrating with tools like Zoom and Google Meet, and sending real-time notifications via both SmartLearn and email. The entire process is streamlined to connect students and tutors effortlessly.

• Auth0 and Firebase Authentication is used to validate credentials and issues a JWT (JSON Web Token), which is stored on the client, and every API request includes this token for verification.
• Role-based access control (RBAC) is used to assign roles to users, define permissions per role, and enforce access control.
• By integrating these two technologies, SmartLearn has the ability to identify a TA and allow he/she touse the functions that students have no access to. 

• Each time a student submits a quiz, the system records the quiz ID, score, timestamp, and number of attempts in the database through JSON.
• SmartLearn use Firebase Cloud Functions to create a backend function which minitors quiz submissions; after every submission, it checks if the score is below the pass threshold, and if the number of attempts has reached two.
• If both conditions are met, the system writes a flag entry into the path in the database through JavaScript.

• SmartLearn has signed up for developer accounts on the external platforms, which allows us to read their API docs and get our API key/token.
• SmartLearn then can use HTTP requests via JavaScript and Python to send or receive data.
• In this way, we programmatically interact with the external apps which allows for real-time updates, data sync, and automation.

• Use Calendly API and Google Calender API to schedule the meeting online.
• Use Email/SMS Alerts to send notification to our targeted students.
• Use Zoom API and Google Meet API to build the virtual classrooms.

• SmartLearn applies React.js and Responsive CSS to break UI into isolated pieces and dynamically adjust UI based on screen size, thus supporting multi-device.
• The data privacy of our users is protected by Encryption, which scramble the data to make it unreadable to unauthorized parties, thus ensuring confidentiality, integrity and security.