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AFCT Dashboard

AFCT (Automated Feedback for CS Theory) is a course dashboard for automata and formal-language coursework. Students submit finite automata, push-down automata, context-free grammars, and regular expressions built in JFLAP; the dashboard evaluates them automatically and gives immediate feedback, while faculty manage courses, assignments, and grades.

Where to start​

  • Students: the Student Guide covers enrolling in a course, submitting solutions, and reading your feedback and grades.
  • Faculty and TAs: the Faculty Guide covers building courses and assignments, grading, and managing your roster.
  • Administrators: the Administrator Guide covers user management, system settings, backups, and updates.

Running your own AFCT​

AFCT is self-hosted with Docker. Start with the production setup overview, then follow the guide that matches where you will host it:

  • AWS EC2, recommended for a public production deployment
  • Linux, recommended for any long-running server
  • Windows, useful for smaller or locally managed deployments
  • macOS, useful for smaller or locally managed deployments

Once deployed, see updates, backups, TLS certificates, and troubleshooting.

Integrating with AFCT​

The HTTP API is documented in the API Reference, generated from the code on every release. The native submission client uses the token-authenticated client API.