Edtech

Facilitating E-learning with an intuitive, comprehensible, secure, and customized platform.

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Facilitating E-learning with an intuitive, comprehensible, secure, and customized platform. contentauthor Tue, 04/18/2023 - 12:12

How we turned a statement of perplexity into a practical solution by engineering a personalized e-learning experience for both tutors and learners.

Worldwide

The client initially approached us with a foundational concept of what he planned to create. However, the designs presented by him were somewhat complicated and unhandy while lacking a touch of practicality and intuitiveness. In addition, his designs were missing a linkage through the workflow. This prompted us to come up with a comprehensive outline of how his ideas could be executed more efficiently. The client was immensely impressed by the project proposal put forth by our adept design team, which made him select us for the development. Furthermore, the customer decided to move forward with our team because of the in-depth consultation, strategic thinking, and open lines of communication we provided.

The client is a student who took notice of the various difficulties faced by both tutors and learners for the lack of reachability. Therefore, he sought to develop a Learning Management System that works for tutors, students, and learners. He envisioned an LMS platform that would not be limited with respect to the courses offered, thereby delivering both open and closed courses. The client was dedicated to creating a secure learning atmosphere that would provide tutors and learners with a seamless, consistent, and overall educational experience.

The client wanted to build a platform that would deliver and manage all types of content, such as videos, courses, workshops, and documents, that are necessary for a smooth learning experience.

They recruited our qualified assistance to build an MVP that would allow them to gather user input as rapidly as possible to modify and improve the product. Our team meticulously assessed the client's requirements and overall vision to make sure we could gratify them before starting the end-to-end development and construction of an active and effortless platform.

We helped the client overcome several business difficulties through our collaborative efforts and continuous interaction. Here's how we went about it—

The client had initially put forth some complex designs that lacked intuitive, user-friendly features. However, our excellent design team tirelessly tried to modify and create a market-ready design while incorporating the client's requirements. Our past professional designing experience enabled us to achieve this seamlessly. As a result, we delivered a modern appearance to a traditional idea.
The client was unable to decide on payment gateways as no one option was able to fulfill all his requirements comprehensively. This further led to the designing of elaborate subscription plans. Here, our team successfully brought a change where the majority of the work was automated, and only some modules were handled manually. Moreover, we did so without altering the client's subscription plans. For this, we had to integrate two different types of payment gateways for the platform.
Keeping in mind the complicacy and sophistication of the business model, our team developed an automated payout mechanism that would ensure scheduled payments to the tutors or instructors.
The client ideated a platform that would not be limited in terms of courses. Considering this, we designed the platform to accommodate both open and closed courses combinedly. In addition, we made sure that the closed courses were accessible to specific persons. We developed a mechanism that would allow the creators of closed courses to invite particular people to access them while open courses remained available for all.
To ensure a smooth user experience, we built a personalized dashboard having advanced data filters for the learners and students. For this, we collectively presented all available data points in the database on the dashboard to be filtered by them according to their needs.
In order to eliminate any potential confusion, we created different pages for every tutor that would wholly display all the courses offered by them. This considerably increased the visibility of the courses while allowing all learners to identify specific tutors and their courses.
Our development team recognized the importance of providing flexible subscription plans with online storage management to ensure an effortless platform. For this, we decided to create all the necessary folders in the S3 bucket while adjusting their sizes dynamically and depending on the subscription plans. The size of a folder would alter in case of plan upgrades or downgrades.
The learning or training courses built by us were loaded with countless features such as Question With Radio Button, Accordion, Pick the Right Word, Adding, HTML, Images, Audio, and Video links, Embedding, Attaching Documents like PDFs, and more. In addition, we also added advanced text and multimedia content to the courses. However, no ready-to-use plugins were available to integrate the above-mentioned features. Nonetheless, our qualified team acquired the most ideal one and customized it per our needs. The team's expertise under the supervision of the technical head enabled us to achieve this.
Considering the large amount of data involved, paying particular attention to assuring data security proved imperative. This was carried out from the server end. Moreover, we made sure to keep the code quality compatible with the latest web standards.
The client was sufficiently knowledgeable and aware with respect to technology. Owing to this, they put forth several suggestions while actively participating in the development process. Therefore, we made sure to keep him in the loop with constant communication and also incorporated his technological contributions to the project.
We created a strategy to ensure that users could access all courses with the minimum number of clicks to provide customers with an exceptional online learning experience.
Our team conducted extensive research and effectively applied its findings to create content for the website that is SEO-friendly and complies with the most recent web standards.

Our team delivered a complete and functional LMS to the client while fulfilling all their requirements and effectively exceeding their expectations. Some of the highlights of our collaboration are as follows—

An easy-going LMS platform with numerous features.
An intuitive website with a good loading speed and seamless browsing.
A reliable and secure website with no possibility of a data breach.
Affirmed SEO friendliness and compliance with the most current online standards.

We appreciate being able to establish a trustworthy working connection with this client as a result of our dedicated collaboration. The client wanted to release the MVP first and wait to see how the market reacted before moving forward. Per the client’s instructions, we have been adding new features to the website depending on how the MVP is materializing in the market.

Lingolista Testimonial

As a student, the client himself felt the need to address a gap in academics due to the lack of accessibility. He meant to eliminate the difficulties with regard to education that he identified, especially during the worldwide lockdown owing to the pandemic. That is when he recognized the need for virtual classrooms and became dedicated to building an online platform for the same. We were approached by the client with a basic idea for a Learning Management System (LMS), which he sought to actualize. Our technological prowess and professional experience enabled us to acknowledge his specific requirements and frame his product ideation into an MVP.

We successfully introduced his product to the market, allowing him to explore the response received by it while adding newer features accordingly.

3+ Years

Lingolista Testimonial 2

It is not uncommon for any business, especially a startup, to face certain obstacles in their initial phases of development and performance. Here are a few instances of the numerous difficulties we encountered while creating this project and how we overcame them—

Improvising the client's designs per his preferences and delivering a modern user journey.
Meeting the client’s needs with respect to payment gateways without altering his intricate subscription model.
Managing payouts for the tutors and instructors.
Incorporating and balancing both open and closed courses on a unified platform.
Building a customized dashboard with advanced filters for the students and learners.
Displaying tutor’s reviews through a mechanism based on the courses offered.
Designing flexible subscription plans with virtual storage management.
Building feature-rich courses with numerous advanced modules such as Drag-and-Drop, Dropdown, Fill in the Blanks, Pick the Right Word, and more.
Preventing data leakage.
Keeping our tech-savvy client informed at every stage of development.
Ensuring minimal clicks across the website for a flawless user experience.
Ensuring SEO-friendliness and web standard compatibility throughout the website.

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150+ Courses Created

Outcome

The seamless collaboration between tutors and learners led to the platform housing over 150+ courses in total.

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1000+ People Onboarded

Outcome

Our experience and expertise enabled us to onboard 1000+ people to the platform since its launch.

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300+ Subscriptions Renewed

Outcome

The smooth user experience encouraged the continued renewal of subscriptions, bringing the number of active users to 300+.

API & Microservices

Dedicated Teams

Digital Design & Branding

MVP Development

Product Design Strategy

Product-Market Fit

UI Design & Implementation

UX Consulting & Audit

Web Development

Amazon AWS

Angular

CSS

Drupal 8

jQuery

Postman

Edtech

Implementation of an edtech platform for online tutor scheduling

admin — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 11:47:12 +0000

Implementation of an edtech platform for online tutor scheduling admin Mon, 01/02/2023 - 11:47

Implementation of an edtech platform for online tutor scheduling with in-depth live class mechanism

Edtech

Belgium, Netherlands

Ideation & project roadmap development

Drupal custom module development

Drupal site building & frontend

Support & AMC

Performance optimization

Drupal 8

Apache SOLR

Acquia Cloud

GITLabs

JIRA

Confluence

Browserstack

The client's team had several discussions with us where we interpreted the the market feedbacks we had received into feature set, and they engaged us as a technical consultant to their project. Once the requirement set as hardened, and then development roadmap was clearly laid down, we were obviously the first choice as a development team, considering our contribution to the project so far.

The client is a young and dynamic edtech startup that originated from a varied group of tutors and academics who offer tutoring, both online and in-classroom setup. Headquartered in Ghent, they are active throughout Belgium and the Netherlands. Since 2013, this platform brings students and tutors together. More than 16,000 students have already found a private tutor through their platform.

The portal is an online platform for students to book classes from various tutors of diverse backgrounds. Students can search for tutors and classes based on various filters and criteria. These classes can be both online via web conference, or home tutoring.

This project was meant to be a website for students to book classes from various tutors online. The tutors would register online and fill up various information and their resume. They would then go through an approval process and once verified, their listing would start to appear on the site. Students can search based on different criteria using an extensive filtering mechanism. They can then book the two modes of classes - either online or offline (if a tutor has added this option to his profile).

Then the student makes a payment deposit as per selected tutor as per selected time slot and per hour rate of the tutor. And once done, the payment is escrowed to the tutor, after he enters his bank details, IBAN and BIC details. Another great functionality which we implemented here is the group class feature. Any tutor can start the group class and can mention how many students can be accommodated in one group class. And then students start to register for the class till it is full. There are various complex discount calculations which a student is entitled to if refers another student to the group as there is a feature to get referral discounts for referring other students to the group class. Some of the processes, especially referral discount calculation, were very complex, and our team of experienced backend developers successfully handled those challenges and went above and beyond every expectation.

Here's a gist of some of the functionalities we built grounds up, as per market feedback and analysis, and discussion with the client's product team.

Group Class Mechanism - The client wanted to implement a new feature called group class. So instead of an one on one session, a tutor can create a class at some future date, and allow multiple students to sign up for the same class. This was supposed to be an extension of the existing class system, but would need a special wage and fees calculation mechanism in place.
Referral Credits & Discounts - Client also wanted to start a referral mechanism programme. Here, one student can refer another student to join the site. Such users who join in, become the referral of the invitee, and any subsequent classes they purchase will entitle invitee for some discounts on the class the invitee purchases. Also, this referral mechanism was supposed to be multi level, instead of one level. So if a referred student further refers to another one, the invitee of this referred student also gains a referral credit/discount.
Online Video Conferencing for Online Tutoring Classes - Also, the client needed some enhancements to the online video conferencing feature on top of the existing system.
Design Improvements - There were quite a few pages, which were pretty basic and did not uphold the spirit of the site. The client discussed this matter with our designing team and engaged us to revamp and improve the design elements across the site to make it look more attractive.

The series of features we implemented not only helped the client gain more customers, but it also allowed them to expand to new markets, with considerable revenue boost. We forged a strong professional alliance and continue to support them for all their technical needs,

Bijleshuis Testimonial

While the client already had a MVP launched and they had gained considerable market insights, they needed a technical partner co-work with them to translate these into a solid phased development plan. Our team was able to evaluate the market feedbacks and design robust solutions that transformed customer journey and user experience. The features we implemented led to an overall increase in customer retention by 20%, paid customer conversion by 30% and led to an overall improvement in backend efficiency.

1.5+ years, phased development

Bijleshuis Testimonial II

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Increase in customer retention by 20%

Outcome

With more user friendly process design, the portal became easier to use and the customer retention increased considerably.

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Paid customer conversion by 30%

Outcome

The market analysis revealed some must have features, and once these were implemented, the site saw a surge in paid customer number and overall improved conversion rate.

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Overall improvement in backend efficiency

Outcome

Through the feature optimizations we did, the backend efficiency increases and led to increase in profit.

API & Microservices

Cloud & DevOps

Digital Design & Branding

Digital Prototyping

Performance Optimization

Product Scaling

Support & Maintenance

Team Augmentation

UI Design & Implementation

Web Development

Browserstack

Confluence

Docker

Drupal 9

Elasticsearch

GIT

Google Cloud

Headless Drupal

JIRA

JMeter

MySQL

Postman

React

Selenium

Edtech