Application Scope

New Contact Messages tab in admin panel for viewing, filtering, and managing contact form submissions. Includes status updates, admin notes, message deletion, and contact page settings.

Backend API endpoint for contact form submissions with input validation, honeypot spam detection, and IP-based rate limiting (5 per hour).

Professional Contact Us page with interactive globe map (Leaflet.js), contact details, inquiry categories, and modal contact form with CAPTCHA challenge to prevent spam.

Added full CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) for editions, countries, and categories in the admin panel with inline editing.

Admins can now toggle which download types are available to users. Per-type enable/disable for editions, resources, CIA archives, Gutenberg, HathiTrust, anthems, bulk packs, rankings export, and country export.

Students can flag discussion posts. Teachers see flagged posts and can approve or reject them. Notifications sent to teachers.

Real-time leaderboard ranking students by average score and assignments completed. Cached in database for performance.

My Progress page with XP chart, streak calendar, learning path progress bars, recent quizzes, achievements, and quick links.

Export learning paths as JSON for backup or sharing. Import JSON to create new paths with all lessons. Admin-only import.

Web app manifest, service worker with cache-first for assets and network-first for pages, and automatic SW registration.

Teachers can import multiple students into a classroom by username or email. Handles duplicates, capacity limits, and reports results.

Teachers can archive and unarchive classes. Archived classes are preserved but hidden from active views.

Real-time notification bell in header with dropdown showing assignment alerts, grade notifications, class joins, path completions, and moderation flags.

Teachers can create detailed rubrics with criteria and point breakdowns for assignments. Rubric-based grading with per-criterion scores and feedback.

Lessons now support file attachments (PDF, images) with sort ordering. Attachments are displayed alongside lesson content.

Users can bookmark lessons for quick access later. Bookmarks include optional notes and are accessible from the My Progress dashboard.

Paths can now require completion of a prerequisite path before enrollment. Enforced in API and shown in UI.

Full classroom management system. Teachers can create classes with unique 6-character join codes, invite students, create quiz assignments with configurable difficulty/question count/deadlines/max attempts, view submission status, remove students, and export grades as CSV. Students join classes via code, view assignments with due dates, and submit work. Includes per-class and per-assignment threaded discussion boards with teacher badges. 5 new database tables: classrooms, classroom_students, classroom_assignments, assignment_submissions, classroom_discussions.

New structured course system with 8 learning paths (World Geography 101, Global Economics, Demographics Deep Dive, World Governments & Politics, Africa Focus, Asia & Oceania Focus, Europe Focus, Americas Focus). Each path contains 4-5 lessons following a Reading → Visual → Quiz → Summary flow. Features include enrollment tracking, per-lesson progress, XP rewards, Chart.js data visualizations from live country data, integrated quiz engine, and certificate of completion. 36 lessons total with rich educational content.

Added Edition Updates section to analytics page showing full/partial edition counts, records by decade breakdown, and complete edition table with coverage indicators.

Added National Anthems tab to the Download Center with search, play/pause controls, progress bar, download buttons, and session listen/download counters.

Added 15 new resources including edition guides, analysis documents, field references, and educational materials. Total: 36 resources.

Added 61 new curated facts covering geography, demographics, economics, government, military, infrastructure, and culture. Total: 181 facts.

Created World Regions, World Religions, Independence Dates, Country Climates, and National Anthems flashcard decks. Total: 10 system decks with 1,400+ cards.

Added 81 new glossary terms covering economic, demographic, geographic, government, military, infrastructure, and energy categories. All terms include related_field mappings for country data tooltips.

Real-time online user counter, admin user management with ban/suspend/reject, visitor analytics (IP, device, location).

Interactive Chart.js dashboard: population bars, GDP charts, region pie/doughnut, GDP vs Life Expectancy bubble scatter plot.

Full forum system: groups (open/restricted/private), threads, nested replies, reactions, polls, @mentions, notifications, moderation (ban/suspend), reputation system.

XP system with 25 levels, 30 achievements across 6 categories, 5 tiers, streak tracking, leaderboard, country visit tracking.

6 quiz modes, 9 question types auto-generated from DB, 3 difficulty levels, region filter, leaderboard, Alpine.js interactive UI.

AIProvider abstraction supporting Local, Ollama, OpenAI, Groq, Together AI, and OpenRouter. Admin-switchable providers.

AI-powered research with 6 database tools (search, compare, rankings, trends, profiles, field discovery). Function calling loop with up to 5 tool calls per query.

Edition archives (JSON/CSV/SQL), resource downloads, bulk packs, download analytics with charts.

jVectorMap integration replacing Leaflet. Click-to-play anthems, country modals, region coloring. 216 local MP3 anthems.

Admin dashboard for site settings, announcements, user management, AI configuration.

Full auth system: registration, login, sessions, 2FA, password policies, CSRF protection, audit logging, rate limiting.

Hybrid chatbot with SQL-first approach and OpenAI fallback. Natural language queries about country data.

Core platform built with 261 countries, 138,606 data records, 256 flags, 267 maps. Pages: Home, Countries, Country Profile, Compare, Rankings, Regions, Search, About.