VisheshVGR / Hack_The_Web

Hack The Web in which admins can host contest and share link to contest takers and see standings.

Hack The Web

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Table of Contents 📕

• Tally CodeBrewers-2022
• Tools and Technology
• Features :
  • Special Features
  • Homepage
  • Contests Page
  • Host Page
  • Single Contest Page
  • Standings Page
  • Future Work
• Gallery
• Database Schema

Tally CodeBrewers-2022

• The Challenge
  • Build a Quiz Organizing Platform
  • Essential features which were expected
    1. Quiz Admin Register, and Sign In flow
    2. Quiz Admin can publish a quiz.
    3. Quiz taker can attempt a quiz using a shared link.
    4. Score of all participants for a quiz to be available to quiz admin at the end of quiz
  • Detailed View of the Problem Statement can be found here

Tools and Technology

• The Front-end is created in React.js and Material UI.
• For creating Back-end, we used Firebase. For the database, we used Google Firestore. We created a very flexible and versatile foundation for our codebase, so that in future its functionality could be easily extended and new agents could be easily added into it.
• For hosting we used Vercel which is a cloud platform that enables developers to host websites and web services that deploy instantly, scale automatically, and require no supervision.

Features :

Special Features

• All Data is live fetched and updated improving user experience.
• This is a single-page website with no refresh on page change enhancing page load speed.
• Strict security rules with proper feedback messages using react-toastify.
• Responsive website with accessibility features.

Homepage

• Login/Signup
  • Users can login/signup via Google Authentication.

Contests Page

• It has three sections Live Constest / Upcoming Contest / Expired Contests with contest cards in them.
• Each contest card contains following:
• Information about the contest.
• Link to open the constest
• Copy Link button to copy shareable link of the contest

Host Page

• It has four sections Create Contest / Live Constest / Upcoming Contest / Expired Contests with contest cards in them which is hosted by Logged In user.
• Quiz Admin can create and schedule multiple contest.
• Quiz Admin vary weightage of each questions.
• Quiz Admin can share link of the quiz.
• Quiz Admin can see status of all quizzes created till then.

Single Contest Page

• Quiz Takers can access this window through shareable link.
• Quiz Takers can only attempt the quiz withing the time slot assigned by the Quiz Admin.
• Quiz Takers can re-attempt any unsubmitted quiz if any network failure occurs.
• Quiz Takers will get the results instantly after their successfull submission.
• Quiz Takers responses will be valid only if they were submitted with the allotted time duration.

Standings Page

• Every user can see realtime score of all participants of any quiz.
• Every user can search for score of any participant through participants name.
• Every user can sort result on the basis of score.

Future Work

• Auto Adding Participants using CSVs
  • Quiz Master will be able to directly add participants instead of manually entering everyone.
• Timer per questions
  • In addition to overall time duration, time per question can also be fixed by Quiz Master
• Prompt users for marked/ unattempted question
  • Before submitting the quiz, participants will get prompted for marked & unanswered questions
• Showing Detailed Statistics
  • Detailed statistics related to quiz like maximum marks, lowest marks, average marks etc.
• Prompt users for terminated Quizzes.
  • If an quiz is terminated while a participant is attempting quiz, he/she will be prompted that quiz is over
• QuizMasters can share realtime clarifications.
  • Quiz Masters will be able to share any clarifications regarding quiz or any question that they have

Gallery

Home Page	Home Page
Contests Page	Google Sign In/Out
Host Page	Host Page
Create Contest Page	Contest Page
Contest Page (Questions)	Current Standings Page

Database Schema

• Contests Schema