Award-winning LMS for the US K‑12 education giant
Built from scratch US market targeted LMS for K-12 to manage academic operations. Developed with PHP, RoR and React JS technologies.
USA
Education
Since 2014
Key achievements
| 10M+ | registered users |
| 28K+ | schools |
| 3K+ | districts |
Challenge
The Client’s idea was to produce several educational materials for elementary school education. The project idea was to create a standard system for the authors of educational content. The system allows teachers and curricula creators to add their materials. It allows teachers to send materials and students to interact with them: learn, pass tests, etc. The Client also wanted to carve out a commercial line of the project by selling access to the database. The business creates a process whereby the company can drive many clients automatically.
An essential requirement is the constant availability of the WCAG-compatible high load system. It is vital to have a basement for the development of new materials. It is also crucial that they are interactive. With educational materials and a project idea, the client was looking for a vendor.
Requirements:
Solution
To satisfy all the needs above, the Aristek Systems team started working on the project by building the structure and architecture of the system, thus making it the basis of the client’s business. After rigorous analysis and research, we identified the main business processes to supply them with relevant technical solutions.
Based on our expertise, we`ve designed and implemented more than ten subsystems to cover every specific function, be it orders, installations, etc. The main subsystems are:
Order management system
This is an order processing system whose main tasks are to process all orders, monitor financial flows, contact vendors and transfer this information to the next system, etc.
Queues systems
The purpose of such a subsystem is to normalize the server load. While receiving the data, it assigns information flows correctly and frequently to ensure sustainable working processes.
Global resource allocation (GRA)
This is a technical management system to run automatic software installation for each school. GLR also performs a monitoring function, helping to control the system status, user organization, errors, etc.
District maintenance
The district’s technical staff make use of this subsystem. It aims to set up teachers’ and students’ suites, provide integration with external users’ loading systems, and gather top-level statistics data.
Global login subsystem
It helps log-in users and redirects them to the required system for admins, students, etc. Also, it assists in avoiding overloading processes during peak hours.
Dashboards
It shows aggregated information from all systems for internal analysis.
User's hub
The subsystem aims at providing access, task tracker, and support for internal users.
Teachers' hub
This part is responsible for certification and courses for teachers.
Learning platform for teachers & students
This part of the system consists of two components. The first one is an authoring tool that allows adding educational materials to the system, registering, and categorizing them depending on the requirements of districts and schools. The second part is teachers’ and students’ suites, built to provide students with the necessary materials and help them pass tests.
Subscription management
One more thing we were pleased to create for this solution is to develop a website to serve subscription requests.
Tools & technologies
Roadmap
2014
Start of the project. We discovered the business context and defined the client’s business goals to build a base for the future solution ecosystem.
2015-2018
The active growth of functionality and implementation of internal and external integrations with various systems.
2019
The solution update, with a focus on improving the high-loaded distributed system. Implementation of application clustering.
2020
Teachers’ and students’ suites subsystem upgrade WCAG conformance, single page application technology, etc.
2021-2022
Solution development and support.
Team
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Business analysts x5
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Customer support specialists x2
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Project managers x5
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UX/UI designers x2
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Front-end developers x11
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Back-end developers x16
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QA engineers x17
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DevOps engineers x2
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Delivery managers x2
Results
The result of the project is a system that automates all the business processes, from the creation of materials to the sale of a license. The development also includes a full-stack technical solution that can categorize and group all materials according to the standards of the required districts.