Online learning platform

The goals:

• Create a powerful online platform that helps the SIR to achieve its main goal: support students in their studies by providing online lecture summaries which can be personalized by adding notes.
• The platform has to be safe, reliable and user friendly.
• Develop the platform within two months, it had to be up and running at the beginning of the academic year.

Case Results:
1. Price per college summary dropped by 67% The traditional printing and distribution process is superfluous now that the summaries are digitalized and made available in an online environment. Thspis results in significant lower production costs per summary.

2. Production and distribution time is reduced by more than 70% The summary is available within 7 days after the lecture date. This is significantly faster than the traditional distribution process, which took more than three weeks. With new SIR online study platform, student can start preparing for their exams much earlier.

3. Accurate and personalized summaries across devices The college reports are presented in PDF format and subscribers are able to personalize the documents by marking the text and adding personal notes to the document. The reports including these notes can be accessed throughout the duration of the subscription. Students can read the reports on their computers as well as their tablets. Corrections or additions to published summaries are added with a mouse click. The students can rely on the published summaries, knowing they contain the latest information. In the old days, this used to take up to three weeks so this is a major improvement to the accuracy of the information.

4. Extra support via personalized calendar Extra support for students is added via a calendar functionality. This alerts them on important exam dates and allows them to add personal items.

5. Flexible subscription options: there’s something for everyone Students are flexible in the way that they can subscribe to reports of a specific timeframe or a specific curriculum. The platform also provides the SIR with powerful tools to optimize their offers and stimulate the use of the platform. It is provided with a flexible discount system. The SIR can promote their services by handing out discounts for: • Products • Timeframes • User groups • And any combination of the above

6. Managing users, content and finances We took into account that the volunteers that manage the platform are no IT or communication experts. The managing of users, products and payments is easy and intuitive. Handling of the payments is more efficient because the Drupal Commerce module is taking care of a huge part of administrative tasks. For the payment we integrated the Buckaroo payment solution. Thanks to the added views export Drupal module the SIR is able to export any view to an Excel file, which is of great use for administrative reasons.

7. Planning & deadline were met. The online study platform was developed and launched within the planned 2 month period.

8. The client rated our services and the end result (online study platform) with a grade ‘9’ (on a scale from 1 to10, 10 being the highest) We like to ask our clients about our services after the launch of the project.