Learning Management Platform

The problem

A learning platform needed to manage users and cohorts, organise course content in a predictable structure, track learner progress through that content, and give administrators a view of who had completed what.

The solution

Work across an existing PHP application: user and cohort management, a course/module/lesson content model, progress tracking tied to that model, administrative dashboards and the APIs behind them.

Technical architecture

A simplified, public-safe view of how the pieces fit together.

My contribution

• Implemented course and content management features and their supporting endpoints.
• Built learner progress tracking against the course content hierarchy.
• Developed administrative dashboards for enrolment and completion views.
• Extended role handling so administrators, instructors and learners saw appropriate functionality.
• Worked within an established codebase, matching existing conventions rather than introducing a parallel style.

Engineering challenges

Key features

• User, role and cohort management
• Course, module and lesson content structures
• Enrolment and learner progress tracking
• Administrative dashboards and completion reporting
• REST APIs behind content and progress features

Outcome

Administrators could manage content and see progress in one place, and learner state stayed consistent as courses were revised.

Lessons learned

• Content models should expect to change; identifiers should not.
• Matching an existing codebase’s conventions beats importing your own preferences into it.