LDAP Chat

A Chat Client without the hassles of registration

Motivation

Everything today is online. Courses, assignments, so why not discussions? There are avenues like TodaysMeet, but they have an authentication issue wherein lot of spam is generated and actual discussion is deferred.

Idea

So we designed a chat application which meets the requirements of an instructor -- from an instructor's perspective.

Special Features

• LDAP Authentication (CSE)
• Instructor Message broadcasting
• Discussion Trees

Technologies Used

• Django (Python)
• Tornado (for chat)
• Websockets
• PostgreSQL
• And lots of HTML and CSS

A picture is worth a thousand words!

The main page

Instructor's Home

Adding a new Chatroom

The chatroom

Student's Homepage

Another Chatroom