Our final practical project will be an e-learning platform. In this chapter, we are going to build a flexible CMS that allows instructors to create courses and manage their contents.

First, create a virtual environment for your new project and activate it with the following commands:

mkdir env
virtualenv env/educa
source env/educa/bin/activate

Install Django in your virtual environment with the following command:

pip install Django==2.0.5

We are going to manage image uploads in our project, so we also need to install Pillow with the following command:

pip install Pillow==5.1.0

Create a new project using the following command:

django-admin startproject educa

Enter the new educa directory and create a new application using the following commands:

cd educa
django-admin startapp courses

Edit the settings.py file of the educa project and add courses to the INSTALLED_APPS setting as follows:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'courses.apps.CoursesConfig',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
]

The courses application is now active for the project. Let's define the models for courses and course contents.