GradeChain-$$\alpha $$: A Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain-Based Students’ Grading System for Educational Institute

The technological advance has an impact on education for many decades. Education is a core area where different peers need to share and modify shared information. Educational institutes are managing large amounts of student records pertaining to student data, marks, and teachers’ details to provide better grading solution. Marks are more sensitive as its disclosure might lead to revealing the identity of the students. There are several advantages to use blockchain in the education system where digitalized students’ record is one of them. In such a system, the organizations can generate marks, and can store marksheets and certificates of individual students which can be accessed and verified by the other institute/company if the students have applied to that company/organization for getting a job or for getting admission to higher studies. This paper has designed a Hyperledger Fabric blockchain-based marks generation marks storing system of an educational organization, named GradeChain- $$\alpha $$ . The generator of the marks can be tracked by the administrator of the system. The reliable, replicated, redundant, and fault-tolerant (RAFT) protocol has been used to automate the result publication of students. The implementation status shows that this architecture can be used in an automated students’ grading system.