Customising eLearning

Education Software Development Services

Learning management systems, eLearning portals and the platforms behind them. We build education software that learners finish and that the people teaching them can actually run.

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Cutting-Edge Education Software Development

End-to-end software for schools, institutions and ed-tech startups, from the first strategy conversation through to the content system the courses run on.

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Advisory and strategy for navigating what an eLearning build actually involves. We start from why and how the software will make the business sustainable, then set a roadmap against it.

  • In-depth educational consulting
  • A read on where eLearning is going
  • Support for existing initiatives

Personalised, interactive ed-tech applications that make online learning genuinely accessible to learners and to the people teaching them. Designed and tested against real use, not against a feature list.

  • End-to-end eLearning development
  • Built for learners and educators
  • Personalised, interactive systems

Modernising an existing platform with current technology and the integrations it has been missing, feature additions and technology updates that keep an ed-tech application robust.

  • Integration with existing CMS and LMS
  • Data exchange that fits the workflow
  • A better experience on the far side

Content management systems built around how the institution actually runs its courses, integrating with the platforms already in place rather than replacing them.

  • Built to the institution’s needs
  • Course creation, delivery and management
  • Learner engagement and assessment

Our solutions

Personalised eLearning Software Development

End-to-end education software, from personalised learning tools through to skill assessment systems. Six places where the right software changes what a course can do.

Learning management systems

Custom LMS platforms for planning, delivering and assessing learning, built around how the institution actually teaches.

  • Centralised course management
  • Statistics and reporting modules
  • Real-time progress tracking

eLearning portals

Personalised, genuinely usable portals for students and learners, rather than a login page in front of a file share.

  • Analytics and reporting
  • Learning content management
  • Collaborative features

Learning experience platforms

Flexible modern platforms for finding and sharing worthwhile content from across a range of sources.

  • AI-based recommendations
  • Adaptive learning paths
  • An environment learners stay in

Remote monitoring software

Proctoring for online exams and assessments, so an institution can run them remotely without losing confidence in the result.

  • Live monitoring
  • Test session recording
  • ID verification and authentication

Mobile learning

Course access that fits around a learner’s day rather than requiring them to sit at a desk for it.

  • Push notifications and offline access
  • Interactive learning features
  • Attendance management and reporting

Knowledge management systems

Collecting, storing and sharing institutional knowledge so it survives the people who happened to hold it.

  • Access control and collaboration
  • Content management
  • Social integration

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Understanding Education Software Development

Five questions that come up in every eLearning build, answered in the order they tend to arrive. Pick the one you came for.

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Choosing between an LMS and an LXP?

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The types of eLearning software system

eLearning software is built for three quite different jobs, and the distinction matters more at procurement than it does in a demo.

  1. Learning management systems

    A platform for courses, training programmes and the tracking around them.

    • Create quizzes and online tests
    • Upload files and import materials
    • Handle the documentation
    • Keep progress reports current

  2. Course management systems

    Built for authoring and publishing courses rather than administering them.

    • Course authoring
    • Content management
    • Evaluation and assessment
    • Analytics and reporting

  3. Learning content management systems

    Aimed at creating, publishing and organising the content itself, with the assessments alongside it.

    • Automatic question generation
    • Multimedia capability
    • Collaborative authoring
    • Content management and analytics

The latest trends in the eLearning industry

Six shifts currently reshaping what an online course looks like, and what learners now expect one to do.

  1. Mobile learning

    mLearning has become the default rather than an accommodation. Mobile-first platforms let a learner pick a course up whenever there is time for it, which is most of what makes a course finishable.

  2. Microlearning

    Bite-sized modules built around one objective each. It has taken hold because it works: short units are retained better than long ones.

  3. Artificial intelligence

    Applied to administrative work, natural language processing and recommendation. It also underpins intelligent tutoring, where the system adapts to the learner rather than the other way round.

  4. Augmented and virtual reality

    AR and VR make a learning environment interactive in a way a video cannot. Interacting with a 3D object is experiential learning, and it shows up in skill development.

  5. Social learning

    Peer collaboration tools, discussion forums and social integration. This is what turns a set of individual learners into a cohort that supports itself.

  6. Gamification

    Points, badges, leaderboards and rewards. Handled well, they give a learner a reason to come back to a module they would otherwise abandon.

Security measures to implement in eLearning software

An education platform holds identity data on minors as often as not. These are the measures worth treating as non-negotiable.

  1. User authentication

    Multi-factor authentication and single sign-on, rather than a password field on its own. This is the control that decides who reaches the platform at all.

  2. Data encryption

    Industry-standard algorithms and protocols such as SSL/TLS in transit, with personal information and credentials encrypted at rest.

  3. Secure communication

    HTTPS across every channel between the user and the system, so data cannot be read or tampered with on the way.

  4. Access control

    Role-based access control, limiting what each role can reach according to the institution’s own hierarchy and permissions.

  5. Secure hosting

    A hosting provider whose servers and infrastructure are configured properly, firewalls, intrusion detection and a patching schedule that is actually kept.

  6. Security updates

    Patches applied across everything in the stack: web servers, databases, operating systems and third-party libraries. Most breaches use a known vulnerability.

  7. Security audits

    Regular assessment to find what the team has missed, penetration testing, code review and vulnerability scanning.

Custom eLearning software, or off-the-shelf

The two differ on flexibility, on cost and on how quickly you can start. Neither is the right answer in general; they are right for different institutions.

  1. Custom eLearning solutions

    • Fit. Built to the requirements you actually have, with real latitude over content, design and functionality.
    • Engaging content. Context-specific material rather than material shaped by what the product happens to support.
    • Adaptability. The institution controls the feature set, so the platform can change as the teaching does.

  2. Off-the-shelf software

    • Lower upfront cost. The features are pre-built, so the initial spend is smaller, though subscription fees continue for updates and new features.
    • Faster to start. Already built and tested, so it can be in use shortly after purchase.
    • Fixed functionality. A standardised feature set, which is the trade for both of the above.

The difference between an LMS and an LXP

Both improve online learning, and they are routinely confused in procurement. They solve opposite problems.

  1. Learning management systems

    • Centralised. Built to centralise learning activity and the administration around it, course creation, assignment, tracking.
    • Structured. The right tool where learning has to follow a defined path, as in certification or compliance training.

  2. Learning experience platforms

    • Learner-led. A personalised, social environment where learners find content by their own interest rather than by assignment.
    • Informal. Built for self-directed learning, where the learner shapes their own route through the material.

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Why Sphinx Solutions

A Pioneer in Custom eLearning Software

We build education software that holds a learner’s attention and shows up in the outcome, with a team of designers and developers working across time zones. Every system is built to the institution’s own requirements rather than assembled from a template.

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From objective to launch, the sequence runs:

  • Define the objectives and requirements
  • Research the market and the competition
  • Design the interface and prototype it
  • Select the tech stack and framework
  • Set up the development environment
  • Test and assure quality
  • Deploy, then maintain

Which one suits depends on what you are authoring and who is authoring it, but the tools most widely used are:

  • Articulate 360
  • iSpring Suite
  • Camtasia
  • Adobe Animate
  • Lectora

Designing and building an application to your own requirements rather than adapting to a product’s. It covers planning, market research, UI and UX design, front-end and back-end development, and testing, the same sequence any bespoke build follows, applied to teaching.

An eLearning application typically starts around $35,000 and runs to about $70,000. Where a given project lands depends on complexity, the platforms and stack chosen, and the rates and location of the team building it.

Up to a point, and it is a reasonable way to validate an idea. The sequence:

  • Define the requirements
  • Select a no-code or low-code platform
  • Design the application
  • Integrate the features you need
  • Test and assure quality
  • Deploy

It depends on complexity, team size, the stack and what is already in place. As a rough guide: planning and research one to two months, interface design one to two months, development three to six months depending on complexity, testing one to two months, and deployment one to two weeks. Maintenance is ongoing.

Experience with the accessibility and data-protection obligations an education platform carries: these systems hold identity data on minors as often as not, and that is not a detail to discover late. Beyond that: a team that will stay with the platform after launch, and one that has built both the administrative side and the learner-facing side, because an LMS and an LXP are not the same product.