A comprehensive Learning Management System built with Laravel, designed to facilitate online education through structured courses, progressive learning paths, and role-based access control. The platform supports multiple user roles (students, trainers, and administrators) with distinct capabilities and interfaces.
Students
- Browse and enroll in public and premium courses
- Track learning progress through chapter completion
- Sequential chapter unlocking based on completion
- View certificates upon course completion
- Access personalized dashboard with analytics
- Submit assignments and receive scores
Trainers
- Create and manage courses with rich content
- Upload PDF documents and videos per chapter
- Set course visibility (public/private)
- Manage course curriculum and chapter ordering
- Track student enrollments and progress
- Issue certificates to students
- Monitor assignment submissions and scoring
Administrators
- Full platform oversight and management
- User role management
- Content moderation capabilities
- System analytics and reporting
- Newsletter and community management
Course Creation
- Rich text editing with Markdown support for detailed course descriptions
- Course tagging for improved discoverability
- Media attachments using Spatie Media Library
- External resource integration (Zoom meetings, YouTube videos)
- Public/private visibility controls
- Automatic course ID and slug generation
Chapter System
- Maximum 20 chapters per course
- Sequential ordering with drag-and-drop functionality
- PDF document and video attachments per chapter
- Progressive unlocking mechanism
- Completion tracking per student
- Media management through Spatie Media Library
Course Discovery
- Advanced search functionality across titles, descriptions, and tags
- Multi-filter system (All, Public, Private, Recent)
- Guest users see public courses; authenticated users access all
- Featured courses on homepage with visual indicators
- Responsive grid layouts for optimal viewing
Course Access
- Public courses: viewable by all, chapters unlocked upon enrollment
- Private courses: require authentication and enrollment
- Role-based permissions (trainers/admins bypass enrollment requirements)
- Enrollment tracking through pivot table relationships
Chapter Progression
- First chapter automatically unlocked upon enrollment
- Subsequent chapters unlock when previous chapter is marked complete
- Visual indicators: completed, unlocked, locked states
- Prevents out-of-order completion
- Tracks completion timestamps
Assignments
- Trainers create assignments linked to courses
- Students submit assignments through the platform
- Scoring and feedback system
- Submission tracking and history
Certificates
- Automated certificate generation upon course completion
- PDF export functionality
- Certificate verification system
- Student certificate gallery
Personalized Dashboards
- Role-specific interfaces with tailored analytics
- Real-time statistics and metrics
- Quick access to relevant actions
- AJAX-powered navigation for seamless UX
Analytics
- Course enrollment trends
- Student progress tracking
- Assignment completion rates
- Community engagement metrics
- Blog/post system with reactions and comments
- Newsletter subscription management
- User feedback collection
- Job board for opportunities
- Contact form for inquiries
Framework & Core
- Laravel 12.0 - PHP web application framework
- PHP 8.2 - Server-side language
- MySQL - Relational database management
Key Laravel Features
- Eloquent ORM for database interactions
- Blade templating engine for views
- Route model binding for elegant URLs
- Authorization policies for access control
- Event-driven architecture
- Queue system for background jobs
Major Dependencies
- Livewire 3.6 - Full-stack framework for dynamic interfaces
- Spatie Media Library 11.17 - File uploads and media management
- Parsedown 1.7 - Markdown parsing for rich content
- Laravel Socialite 5.23 - OAuth authentication
- Laravel Breeze 2.3 - Authentication scaffolding
Styling & UI
- Tailwind CSS - Utility-first CSS framework
- Custom design system with slate/indigo color palette
- Responsive grid layouts
- Modern glassmorphism and shadow effects
- Smooth transitions and micro-interactions
JavaScript
- Vite - Frontend build tool
- AJAX navigation for single-page feel
- Dynamic content loading
- Form interactions and validation
Core Tables
- users - Multi-role user authentication
- courses - Course metadata and content
- chapters - Structured course content
- chapter_completions - Progress tracking
- course_user - Enrollment pivot table
- assignments - Assessment system
- posts - Community content
- certificates - Achievement records
Media Management
- media - Spatie Media Library integration
- Supports multiple collections per model
- File type validation and conversion
- Automatic thumbnail generation
MVC Organization
/app/Models- Eloquent models with relationships/app/Http/Controllers- Request handling logic organized by role/resources/views- Blade templates with component-based architecture/routes- Separated by role (web, student, trainer, admin)
Component Architecture
- Reusable Blade components for UI elements
- Dynamic component rendering
- Icon system with SVG components
- Course card component with conditional rendering
- Multi-role authentication system
- Role-based middleware protection
- Policy-based authorization for granular control
- Session management
- Password reset functionality
Markdown Support
- Course descriptions rendered from Markdown
- Code syntax highlighting
- Rich formatting options
- Safe HTML rendering
Media Handling
- Multiple file upload support
- File type restrictions (PDF, MP4, MOG, MOV, AVI)
- Size limitations (10MB for PDFs, 100MB for videos)
- Automatic file organization
- CDN-ready architecture
- Full-text search across multiple fields
- JSON tag searching
- Filter persistence across pagination
- Query parameter-based filtering
- Results caching for performance
- Chapter dependency system
- Automatic unlocking logic
- Completion validation
- Progress persistence
- Visual feedback on learning status
- Clean, modern aesthetic with focus on readability
- Consistent spacing and typography
- Accessible color contrast ratios
- Mobile-first responsive design
- Loading states and skeleton screens
Public Pages
- Homepage with hero section and course showcase
- Course catalog with search and filters
- Individual course pages with enrollment CTAs
- Blog/community posts
- About, pricing, and contact pages
Authenticated Pages
- Role-specific dashboards
- Course management interfaces
- Chapter progression views
- Profile and settings
- Certificate gallery
- AJAX-powered sidebar navigation
- Breadcrumb trails for context
- Conditional layout rendering (full vs partial)
- Back-to-top functionality
- Search overlay
- User browses course catalog
- Views course details and curriculum preview
- Clicks enroll button (authenticated students only)
- Enrollment record created in pivot table
- First chapter becomes accessible
- Dashboard updated with new course
- Student accesses unlocked chapter
- Views content (video, PDF, text)
- Clicks "Mark Complete" button
- System validates: enrollment, unlock status, not already completed
- ChapterCompletion record created with timestamp
- Next chapter unlocks automatically
- Progress bar updates
- Trainer navigates to course creation
- Fills form with course details
- Adds tags, external links, media
- Sets visibility (public/private)
- Creates chapters with ordering
- Uploads chapter-specific media
- Publishes course
- Students can discover and enroll
- Eager loading relationships to prevent N+1 queries
- Database indexes on frequently queried columns
- Pagination for large datasets (12-15 items per page)
- AJAX loading to reduce full page reloads
- Asset bundling and minification through Vite
- Image optimization and lazy loading
- CSRF protection on all forms
- SQL injection prevention through Eloquent
- XSS protection via Blade escaping
- Role-based access control
- File upload validation
- Secure password hashing
- Modular architecture for easy feature additions
- Service layer pattern for complex business logic
- Event/listener pattern for decoupled operations
- Queue support for long-running tasks
- Cache-ready architecture
- API-ready structure for future mobile apps