Development and Design of E-Learning Platform

Goal

Its courses are available to teachers through a dedicated e-learning platform. As a part of their growth plans the organisation’s leadership decided to revamp Apps for Good’s core software.

• Designing and developing new features, including the People’s Choice Awards - a platform where the open public can vote on students’ projects.
• Designing, developing and choosing the right CMS system for the teachers’ courses platform. Implementing it in several country-specific versions.
• Implementing a student dashboard on the basis of previously written code.

Process

Netguru was chosen to develop a platform that allows teachers, students, and volunteer experts to engage and facilitate technology teaching. Apps for Good was already a complex project operating on a large scale since 2012. On top of that, the project had been developed and maintained by several different teams over the years.

• After the initial scoping session, Netguru provided a full stack development team able to jointly work on the development of the platform, as well as the improvement of application’s UI.
• Alchemy was suggested and later implemented as the CMS of the AfG platform.
• The project’s front-end code was reorganised using the BEM approach. A custom Bootstrap style structure was implemented.

Results

Apps for Good is helping more than a thousand schools and ten of thousands of students around the globe every year. After three years of cooperation, Netguru is still one of its main tech partners.

• The Netguru team has created a tailored interface suitable for different groups of users (teachers, students, and the volunteer experts).
• The updated version of the platform’s modules dedicated to educators was released on time and within budget, receiving great feedback from the community.
• A platform for browsing through courses was re-implemented and adjusted to country-specific versions.
• The cooperation between Netguru and Apps for Good continues.

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