Welcome to Academia documentation
Academia is a modern academic project management platform for universities. It supports collaboration across students, advisors, coordinators, department heads, and evaluators (committee) through the full lifecycle of projects and defenses.
This site documents how the product works and how to work with the open-source Next.js application that powers the experience.
:::tip Use this page when You want the fastest entry into the docs and need to decide whether to start by onboarding flow, role, workflow stage, or developer context. :::
Fastest route through this guide
- Start with Getting started if you want the product and onboarding picture first.
- Start with Roles and dashboards if you already know the audience you care about.
- Start with Project lifecycle if you want the end-to-end academic workflow.
- Start with Environment and API if you are integrating with the platform.
How this documentation is organized
| Section | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Getting started | Product overview, onboarding order, architecture, and local setup |
| Platform | Role guides, lifecycle guides, proposal flow, milestones, evaluation, defense, and staff oversight |
| Developers | NEXT_PUBLIC_API_BASE_URL, headers, and multi-tenant behavior |
Fast entry by intent
| If you want to understand... | Open this page |
|---|---|
| how a department starts using Academia | Onboarding and first setup |
| which role owns what in the platform | Roles and dashboards |
| how the platform moves from proposal to defense | Project lifecycle |
| how the system is built across frontend and backend | Architecture |
| how tenant-aware integration works | Multi-tenancy |
Use the sidebar to move in order, or jump directly by reader intent. The strongest docs paths now support both role-based reading and workflow-based reading.