🧑‍🏫 BuryLCO

Context

BuryLCO provide their 'strength-based' training across the whole health and social care system in Bury. With a very manual process in place, this was proving very time consuming and difficult to scale up. Trying to keep track of different trainers, course dates, ensuring the most up-to-date course materials were used, and trying to train users to be able to deliver training was causing bottlenecks.

Solution

Having assessed commercial off-the-shelf solutions and realising that nothing was going to fit the bill, we came to the conclusion that a custom-built solution was the answer. Being able to have fine-grain control was key in ensuring there was little-to-no distruption in the way they deliver their training on this new platform. We separated the platform out into two distinct system:

Website

The front-end website served as a place to provide information about BuryLCO and the courses they offered. We used a mobile-first, component-first approach to building the website, using Storybook to create a UI library. All the component were backed with unit and component tests using Jest and Vue Test Utils, as well as VRT to ensure nothing was affected unintentially.

Account area

The account area served as a central place for all users to log into. As we didn't want to have different portals for each user type to log into (admins, trainers and users) we created a single account area and displayed different pages specific to the type of user that had logged in.

Admin users

Admins were able to manage users, view highly customisable reports, create new course modules, amongst other things.

Trainers

Trainers were able to see which course dates they had been assigned to, download materials for each course module, mark user attendance, and mark pass/fail status for each user on a particular course module.

Users

Users were able to view their upcoming course dates for courses they'd enrolled in, certificates they had been given upon the successful completion of a course.