ARCADE is a university-focused academic and career guidance platform designed to centralize verified academic resources, provide structured learning roadmaps, and assist students in identifying skill gaps aligned with career roles.
This project is developed as a Student Group Project (SGP – Semester 4) under the domain of Full Stack Web Development.
University students often face:
- scattered academic resources across multiple platforms,
- lack of verified study material,
- unstructured preparation for exams and placements,
- confusion regarding required skills for specific career roles.
ARCADE addresses these issues by providing a role-based, guided, and faculty-involved system within a university ecosystem.
- Provide verified subject-wise academic notes with faculty approval.
- Enable structured learning through visual roadmaps.
- Assist students in career preparation using skill and role gap analysis.
- Maintain a repository of verified resume samples.
- Offer curated external resources and practice links.
- Ensure academic integrity using role-based access control.
The system supports four distinct roles:
- View and download approved notes
- Upload notes for approval
- Follow learning roadmaps
- Select skills and target career roles
- View skill gap analysis
- Access resume samples and external resources
- Upload academic notes
- Review and approve student-uploaded notes
- Suggest or validate learning roadmaps
- Monitor basic student engagement
- Review escalated academic content
- Provide final approval when required
- Oversight role with limited daily interaction
- Manage users and roles
- Maintain resume repository
- Manage external resources
- Control system-level visibility and data
- Authentication & Role Management
- Notes Sharing and Approval System
- Roadmap-Based Learning Module
- Skill & Career Role Gap Analysis
- Resume Sample Repository
- External Resources Management
- Admin Control Panel
The project follows a three-tier architecture:
- Frontend: User interface and client-side logic
- Backend: RESTful APIs and business logic
- Database: Structured relational data storage
This separation ensures scalability, maintainability, and clarity.
- Next.js (React)
- Tailwind CSS
- Node.js
- Express.js
- PostgreSQL, MongoDB NoSQL
- JWT (JSON Web Tokens)
- Git & GitHub
- Frontend: Vercel
- Backend & Database: Render / Railway / Supabase
Key entities include:
- Users
- Subjects
- Notes
- Roadmaps
- Student Skills
- Role Requirements
- Resume Samples
- External Resources
- Audit & Logs
The schema is normalized and designed to support approval workflows and role-based access.
The project is being developed using a module-wise incremental approach, with weekly planning and reporting as per university guidelines. Each module is implemented, tested, and stabilized before moving to the next.
- Intended for single-university use
- Read-heavy, low write-frequency system
- Academic and guidance-focused (not a commercial product)
- Designed to be review-safe, scalable, and extensible
- AI chatbots or recommendation engines
- Real-time notifications
- Payment systems
- Student-to-student messaging
- Public user access outside university
- Weekly progress reports are maintained as per Annexure-II format.
- Supporting documents include requirement analysis, system design, and module breakdowns.
Team Leader:
Swayam Patel (24DCS088)
Team Members:
- Jalisabanu Malik (24DCS049)
- Rutansh Govardhan (24DCE045)
Institute:
Charotar University of Science & Technology (CHARUSAT)
This project is developed strictly for academic purposes as part of the Semester 4 Student Group Project.