Learning Management System (LMS)

This project is the learner-facing part of a larger learning management system, built for schools, colleges and their families. We handled the experience that students, parents and school staff see when they choose and sign up for courses.

Overview

The platform sells and delivers courses. Behind it sits the usual machinery: content, subscriptions, provider accounts, reporting. In front of it, three quite different people need to get things done. A parent wants to find the right course for their child and pay for it. A student wants to look at a lesson before committing. A member of school staff wants to put thirty students on the same course without doing it thirty times.

The problem

The existing flow treated all of those people the same way, one account and one enrolment at a time. For families it was more friction than it needed to be. For schools it was genuinely painful, because bulk enrolment meant repeating the same steps for every student on a list.

There was also nothing to reduce the risk of picking the wrong course. Buyers were committing before they had seen what was inside.

Our approach

We designed two paths through the same catalogue: an individual path and a group path. The individual path is short and reassuring, with lesson previews so people can look before they buy. The group path lets a staff member select a course once, paste or upload a class list, and enrol everyone together.

We built it in React with Material UI so the interface stayed consistent as the number of screens grew, and made responsiveness a requirement from the first sprint rather than a pass at the end. Native apps for iOS and Android share the same content and flows.

What we built

• A course catalogue with search, filtering and clear previews of what each course contains.
• An individual enrolment and subscription flow aimed at parents and students.
• Group enrolment for school and college staff: one course, a list of students, one action.
• A responsive layout plus iOS and Android apps, so a course can be started on a laptop and continued on a phone.

The outcome

Families get a shorter, clearer route from finding a course to starting it, with previews that cut down on wrong choices. Schools get bulk enrolment that takes minutes instead of an afternoon. The provider gets one set of flows to maintain across web and mobile rather than several.