A collaborative, proctor-aware meeting platform for education
NexusMeet is a full‑stack web application built with React (Vite + Tailwind + MUI) on the frontend and Node.js + Express on the backend. It is designed for live online meetings and collaboration with special features for classroom scenarios: teacher/admin oversight, student interaction monitoring, and screen visibility (for supervision and feedback). The project is built with modularity in mind so it can evolve into a lab management system (future integration with Comsy-style features).
Enable instructors and administrators to run secure, interactive online classes where they can:
- See who’s active and how students interact (chat, raised hands, participation).
- Monitor student screens (with consent and privacy safeguards) to verify task progress during lab sessions or timed assignments.
- Provide timely feedback and intervention when students are stuck.
- Collect classroom analytics (attendance, participation, task completion) to inform teaching decisions and automate grading/workflow where appropriate.
The long-term goal is to extend NexusMeet into a classroom/lab management platform (like Comsy) that pairs live meetings with attendance, device monitoring, issue reporting, and role-based dashboards for teachers and admins.
👉 Watch it in action:
- JWT-based Authentication (Register / Login)
- Real-time meetings (WebRTC / Socket.io integration)
- Responsive landing & meeting UI (Tailwind + Material UI)
- REST API endpoints for users, meetings, and basic session data
- Instructor Dashboard: Active users list, current meeting state, raised hands, polls, and quick actions (mute, spotlight, private note).
- Admin Console: View aggregated classroom analytics, user management, and session logs.
- Screen View (Monitor Mode): Professors can request view-only access to a student’s screen during labs (opt-in, encrypted stream) for quick checks and demonstrations.
- Task / Assignment Tracking: Teachers can assign in-meeting tasks and see per-student completion status in real time.
- Attendance & Activity Logs: Automated attendance with session durations and activity markers (e.g., camera on/off, mic on/off, focus/blur events).
- Issue Reporting & Ticketing: Students can flag problems (network, environment, code errors) - tickets are visible to lab admins.
- Student: Join meetings, share screen (with permission), respond to polls, submit tasks.
- Instructor (Teacher): Start/stop meetings, request screen view, assign tasks, view student activity, generate reports.
- Admin: Manage users, configure institution settings, access cross-class analytics and logs.
- Frontend (React + Vite): UI components, meeting controls, screens for dashboard and monitoring.
- Backend (Node.js + Express): REST API, authentication, role-based access, meeting/session metadata.
- Realtime (Socket.io): Presence, chat, live meeting control signals.
- Media (WebRTC): Peer-to-peer video/audio + selective screen-sharing streams.
- DB (MongoDB): Users, meetings, sessions, tasks, logs, analytics.
The design prioritizes minimal central storage of media - only metadata and session audit logs are stored. Screen view streams are ephemeral and peer-to-peer or relayed through TURN only when necessary.
- Explicit consent required before enabling any instructor screen view for a student.
- Use HTTPS and secure JWT storage (httpOnly cookies recommended for production).
- Limit logged PII; store only what’s necessary for classroom functionality.
- Implement role-based authorization checks on every endpoint.
- Add optional institutional policy pages and consent workflows (for GDPR/FERPA compliance depending on region).
Assumes you have Node.js, npm (or yarn), and MongoDB installed.
- Clone repo
git clone https://github.com/OmBarabhai/NexusMeet.git
cd NexusMeet- Backend
cd backend
cp .env.example .env # edit values (MONGO_URI, JWT_SECRET, FRONTEND_URL, etc.)
npm install
npm run dev- Frontend
cd ../frontend
npm install
npm run dev- Open the app: visit the URL shown by Vite (default: http://localhost:5173)
MONGO_URI=
JWT_SECRET=
PORT=8000
FRONTEND_URL=http://localhost:5173
TURN_SERVER_URL=...
POST /api/v1/users/register- registerPOST /api/v1/users/login- loginGET /api/v1/users/me- current userPOST /api/v1/meetings- create meeting (teacher/admin)GET /api/v1/meetings/:id- meeting metadataPOST /api/v1/meetings/:id/tasks- create assignment/taskGET /api/v1/meetings/:id/attendance- attendance reportPOST /api/v1/monitor/request- instructor requests screen view (creates consent ticket)POST /api/v1/monitor/consent- student grants/denies consent
- User:
{ _id, name, email, role, institutionId, createdAt } - Meeting:
{ _id, hostId, title, participants, startTime, endTime, tasks[] } - Task:
{ id, title, description, dueInMeeting, statusByUser: { userId: status } } - MonitorRequest:
{ requestId, meetingId, requesterId, targetUserId, status, createdAt }
- Instructor dashboard: split view - left column participants list + activity, right column meeting preview and task panel.
- Monitor Mode: show a small confirmation overlay explaining privacy and scope before enabling a view.
- Notifications: real-time small toasts for consent requests, new tasks, and raised hands.
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Comsy-style Lab Management
- Centralized lab device registry (IP/host mapping), remote update capability (e.g., push software updates), and lab scheduling.
- Role-based dashboards for lab technicians (issue queue, machine health, usage reports).
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Deeper Analytics & Auto Reports
- Participation scoring, attention heatmaps (high-level), assignment completion trends.
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Learning Tools Integration
- LMS/LTI connectors to sync assignments and grades with Canvas/Moodle.
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Proctoring & Secure Exams (opt-in and comply with privacy laws)
- Secure exam mode: restricted browsing, automatic screen capture (with policies), and suspicious activity flags.
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Enterprise/Institution Onboarding
- SSO support (SAML/OAuth), multi-tenant data isolation, centralized billing and usage dashboards.