Ethos Village – Online Educational platform Students’ route to success
Ethos Village operates on the ‘Subscription’ based model and comes under the web application of the education domain. It offers several courses, events, articles, and many other such aspects. The main focus of this platform is to enhance the personalities of users. Furthermore, legacy plans are provided to input values in the user’s life so that they can find their life’s purpose.
Courses This platform is equipped with several new courses that improve the lives of users. As a matter of fact, there are courses that include legacy plans, power, personal development, STEAM education, philosophy, life coaching, financial literacy, etc. There are several programs that specifically cater to the Ethos parents.
EventsAdmins have the power to generate multiple events, like academic, learning, and training, for their dedicated users by inviting them. These events can take place online or offline as per the requirements.
Articles Mentors and coaches can take advantage of this web app solution to assist their students in achieving their life goals. Furthermore, they have leeway to watch the progress of students through notes and articles developed by the students.
CommunicationEthos Village promotes clear communication among its users. So users can connect with each other via a built-in chat function. Additionally, they can explore the other users in the village and send them follow-up requests to connect. Furthermore, mentors and coaches are using this functionality to generate events for their students and connect with their parents. Moreover, parents can connect with their children’s teachers and request their performance over this application.
Other features Users can also read the latest news and FAQs on this web application to increase their knowledge. Generally, FAQs provide information about how to use this platform.
Building Ethos Village was not an easy task! Creating an educational platform for users is a difficult task, where thousands of users, teachers, and parents interact with each other. Furthermore, many important aspects needed to be covered in the area of technology, scalability, and security concerns.
Below mentioned are the development challenges that the development team faced at the time of development :
Technical difficultiesWhen an educational platform is built, it requires a thorough understanding of technical issues, which are coding, software development, and user interface design. Furthermore, there are high chances of system crashes, software errors, and compatibility issues, which makes it a tedious task.
User engagementKeeping a user engaged is not an easy task! Users can only remain interactive when they can find new platform designs, content, and accessible platforms. Therefore, this seems to be a challenge while developing an educational platform.
ScalabilityThe main question arises: will the system be able to handle increased traffic as the number of users expands? Generally, scalability is the major issue faced here. It requires a robust architecture to handle large volumes of traffic at one time. It needs to be able to manage effectively and smoothly the users’ data too.
Concerns about securityEducational platforms are equipped with a large volume of sensitive information, such as personal details of students, parents, and their payment methods. Therefore, a robust system is required to handle any cyberattack on this platform.
In order to provide an enhanced user experience, our UI/UX designersbrainstormed thoroughly and prepared the platform easily, which can be easily handled by the users. Now, users can explore the platform without any hassle and they can find the options according to their personal requirements.
Furthermore, our expert team has used the power of color combinations and design elements so that each user group, be they either students, parents, or teachers, everyone can stay longer on this platform, proving its effectiveness.
Below are the main technical solutions that helped in overcoming these challenges:
ScalabilityScalability seems to be a challenge while developing an educational platform because it should handle a large number of users without crashing. Therefore, our time used powerful cloud-based hosting platforms, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud. Both of these platforms offer scalable infrastructure to manage user traffic without any obstacles.
SecuritySecurity is a non-negotiable instrument in the educational world. Furthermore, educational web applications hold enormous amounts of personal and payment information. Various technical measures, including encryption, two-factor authentication, and routine security assessments, were put into place.
CompatibilityCompatibility gets hindered when several devices and operating systems are used for one web application. Therefore, our team used responsive design and cross-browser compatibility testing so that the application could operate on various platforms without any challenge.
InteractivityThe educational platform needs to have proper interactive activities to keep students engaged; otherwise, else there are high chances of them leaving the platform. Therefore, there should be gamification, video conferencing, and interactive quizzes in order to generate an immersive learning experience on the educational platform.
AnalyticsThere is no use of the educational platform if you are unable to track students’ performance. Hence, a graphical representation of the student’s progress at each step of learning has become important, and this can be achieved with the help of Google Analytics or Mixpanel.
As a result, Ethos Village is an educational platform that works on only one agenda, that is , providing the best education to the students.
Furthermore, this platform is built to expand the message of vital education among various communities. Mentors and coaches can hold events and invite students to participate in offline or online mode. They can send reports to the parents so that they can track how their child is performing.
Lastly, Ethos Village believes in expanding the message of the right education to everybody. Although there were many challenges related to scalability, security, compatibility, etc, our team worked hard and achieved success over each obstacle.