Digital University Documentation

Welcome to the Digital University project documentation. This site contains comprehensive architecture documentation, design decisions, and technical guidelines.

For New Team Members

1. Be aquainted with glossary

Project Overview

The NPP Portal (Науково-педагогічні працівники / University Faculty Work Portal) is a comprehensive system for managing university faculty profiles and tracking their professional activities. The system consists of multiple modules each of them addresses it's own business needs.

Module 1. Personal Account Management for Employees

• Business logic: Centralized profiles for university employees (lecturers, assistants, professors) containing:
  • academic credentials
  • professional information (with academic degrees, positions, and honors)
  • department assignments
  • multi-department assignment support (joint positions, workload tracking)
• User access: web app only

Module 2. Work Reporting & Evaluation for Employees who are Faculty/Teaching staff (aka НПП)

• Business logic:

• Role-based access control with four distinct user levels

  • Activity reporting by type: Research, Teaching, Administration
  • Activity scoring system of work with automated rating calculations for performance evaluation (by teacher, faculty, department)
  • Co-authorship tracking for collaborative work
  • Public (unauthorized) access to see reported activities
    • present activities types grouped by type (by teacher or by department)
    • provide viualisations which show aggregated stats

• User access: web app only

Module 3. Personal Account Management for Students

• Business logic:

  • viewing the class schedule;
  • obtaining information about exams;
  • receiving messages and announcements;
  • monitoring financial obligations;
  • submitting and uploading documents;
  • electronic signing;

• User access: mobile app and web app

Module 4. Digital signature for University actors

(Implementation draft v0.1) use-cases

• Business logic:

  • upload file (pdf, doc, image) to system by initial counterparty;
    • sign file by initiator;
    • select target person or group;
    • uploaded file cannot be modified or removed. Only cancelled.
  • nofity target person or group
  • provide possibility to:
    • sign file by target person or group
    • reject file by target person or group
  • nofity initiator about the result

• User access: mobile app and web app