The Remote Office Hours Queue application helps users to manage and participate in drop-in office hours virtually or in-person. The application can schedule and link to Zoom and BlueJeans video-conferencing meetings. More information about how the tool works is available on the U-M ITS documentation site.

docker-compose up
docker-compose run --entrypoint="" web python manage.py createsuperuser

Visit localhost:8003/admin in your browser and log in with your admin credentials, then visit localhost:8003 to see the app!

We use Django 3 as a backend and React plus TypeScript in the frontend. The frontend is served through django-webpack-loader and integrates with the backend via DRF REST endpoints and Django Channels websockets. Authentication is handled with OIDC via mozilla-django-oidc. The user interface leverages Bootstrap 4 and a React implementation of Bootstrap, react-bootstrap.

Remote Office Hours Queue currently supports meetings in-person or via Zoom or BlueJeans. These meeting providers -- inperson, zoom, and bluejeans -- are considered backends.

To use or develop with BlueJeans, set BLUEJEANS_CLIENT_ID and BLUEJEANS_CLIENT_SECRET as environment variables.

To use or develop with Zoom, set ZOOM_CLIENT_ID and ZOOM_CLIENT_SECRET as environment variables.

SMS notifications for hosts and attendees are provided via Twilio.

To use or develop with SMS notifications, set TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID, TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN, and TWILIO_MESSAGING_SERVICE_SID as environment variables. Twilio provides free trial accounts with limited credit. You can use special test credentials to not be charged. You can also test notifications via unit tests, where Twilio is mocked:

docker-compose run web python manage.py test officehours_api.tests.NotificationTestCase

If you need to create migrations in the course of development, do it like so:

docker-compose run web python manage.py makemigrations --settings=officehours.makemigrations_settings

This will generate the migrations with all backends enabled as choices.