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An online counseling system designed to offer accessible and convenient counseling services to students. Through its web-based resources, live chat feature, and appointment booking options, students can access guidance, support, and professional assistance.

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App screenshots

Home Page

Counsellor's Dashboard

Student's Live Chat View

Counsellor's Booked Appointments View

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Guidelines on how to run locally 💻

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/YoungAli/Real-counselling.git

Change directory

Change your directory to where you cloned the repository

cd Real-counselling

Create a virtual environment in the Real-counselling directory

Ensure you are in the Real-counselling directory, run this command to create a virtual environment:

python -m venv .\venv

Activate the virtual environment

Activate the virtual environment using the following command:

venv\scripts\activate

Note: Upon running the command venv\scripts\activate, if this error shows up:

venv\scripts\activate : File C:\Users\Training\Documents\New folder\venv\scripts\Activate.ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is 
disabled on this system. For more information, see about_Execution_Policies at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=135170.

Run this command:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted 

Then run the command to activate the virtual environment

Install all necessary packages

pip install -r requirements.txt

Make migrations

Run the following commands separately to make migrations

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Create a new superuser

Run the following command to create a new superuser

python manage.py createsuperuser

Run the project

python manage.py runserver

License 🔐

This project is under an MIT LICENSE