AI-Powered Study Group Website

A Bachelor's thesis project developing an innovative web app that uses LLM-powered "virtual avatars" to provide personalized learning and support for high school students.

🚀 About The Project

This repository contains a Bachelor's thesis project focused on addressing the limitations of generalized classroom learning. We've developed a web application that provides individualized student learning for high school students through the use of "virtual avatars" powered by Large Language Models (LLMs).

The goal is to offer a more stimulating, personalized, and effective learning experience.

Key Objectives

Improve Individual Study: Offer tools that adapt to each student's pace and style.
Personalize Review: Allow students to interact with AI avatars to review specific topics.
Enhance Academic Success: Aim to boost long-term information retention, improve assessment performance, and strengthen students’ confidence.

🛠️ Key Features

AI Virtual Avatars: Students interact with AI-driven personas for a collaborative study experience.
Data-Driven Insights: The database records all user interactions, providing essential data for training and fine-tuning machine learning models.
Teacher Feedback Loop: Teachers play a crucial role as evaluators, with the ability to correct and validate the AI-generated responses. This data is then used to fine-tune the models.
Advanced AI: Utilizes the OpenAI API to implement advanced LLM capabilities and fine-tuning.

💻 Tech Stack

Backend: Laravel
Database: MySQL (managed via XAMPP or similar)
AI: OpenAI API

⚡ Getting Started

Follow these steps to set up and run the project locally.

Prerequisites

A local server environment (like XAMPP, MAMP, or WAMP)
PHP & Composer
A MySQL Database

Installation & Setup

Clone the Repository

git clone [https://github.com/leo54200/AI-Powered-Study-Group-Website.git](https://github.com/Leo54200/AI-Powered-Study-Group-Website.git)
cd AI-Powered-Study-Group-Website

Install Laravel Dependencies
```
composer install
```
Set Up Your Environment
- Copy the .env.example file to a new file named .env.
- Update the .env file with your database credentials (DB_DATABASE, DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD).
Set Up the Database
- Start your XAMPP server (or equivalent) and ensure MySQL is running.
- Open your database management tool (e.g., phpMyAdmin).
- Create a new, empty database named scuola.
- Import the provided SQL script (find it in the repo) into the scuola database.
Run the Application
- Start the Laravel development server:
```
php artisan serve
```
View the Project
- Open your browser and navigate to: http://localhost:8000