Overview
The construction industry is experiencing significant hurdles in hiring and retaining talent. Key issues include labor shortage, skill gaps, economic fluctuations, inadequate training programs, and rapidly evolving technologies. Furthermore, security compliance adds to the pressing needs of the industry. Addressing these challenges requires a multifaceted approach to construction education and training. That’s what delaPlex did by creating an intuitive online education and training platform for a leading provider of construction and safety training solutions.
Client Needs
The client sought to transform construction education and training. The goal was to:
- Develop a robust training platform that enables users to purchase courses for single or multiple users from individual accounts.
- Create a virtual classroom for students to access their purchased courses and integrate it with the main website.
- Design custom cart and checkout page modules to facilitate seamless transactions for both individual and multiple users.
Project Challenges
The client faced several challenges that impacted workforce efficiency, business profitability, and safety compliance within the industry, including:
- Establish a training system that will pioneer construction education and training.
- Ensure the training content reflects real-life field experience and relatable stories from industry veterans.
The delaPlex Solution
delaPlex developed the online training system using the Magento e-commerce framework, optimized for high-volume online sales and comprehensive customer, payment, inventory, and loyalty program management. The innovative solution was further integrated with various features and functionalities to elevate the client’s online training capabilities:
- A custom theme from scratch, including home, category, product, cart, and checkout pages based on the client’s PSD designs.
- Both downloadable products (study notes) and virtual products (classes conducted at client’s location or on-site).
- Custom cart and checkout modules to facilitate course purchases for individual users and multiple students, allowing flexible assignment of courses.
- Moodle as the ‘Virtual Classroom’ for users to access their purchased courses anywhere, anytime.
How We Did It
delaPlex addressed the client’s needs with a strategic approach to create a scalable, flexible, and user-friendly online training platform using a range of innovative solutions and technologies, including:
Project Management
- JIRA for project tracking and management.
Code Management
- GitHub for version control and collaborative development.
Hosting
- AWS Cloud for scalable and reliable cloud hosting solutions.
Web Portal
- Magento for e-commerce functionality and management.
- Moodle integrated as the virtual classroom for course access.
- HTML5 for modern, responsive web design.
- CSS for styling and layout enhancements.
- Bootstrap for responsive and mobile-first design elements.
AWS Services
- AWS EC2 for smooth functioning of various computing tasks.
- AWS S3 for secure data storage and management.
- AWS ALB for balancing the load and ensuring consistent access to the platform.
- AWS CloudFront for fast content delivery through a global CDN.
- AWS RDS MySQL for reliable and efficient data storage and handling.
- AWS Secrets Manager for safeguarding sensitive information and credentials.
Results
- Scalable Platform: Ability to accommodate growing demands and diverse course offerings.
- Enhanced User Experience: The user interface is intuitive and in course purchasing is more flexible.
- Industry Expert-Led Training: Incorporates real-life examples and field experience from veteran instructors.
- Increase in User Engagement: Students are spending more time in the virtual classroom.
- Data-Driven Insights: Ability to make better informed business decisions and optimize course development.
- Cost Savings: Reduction of costs by streamlining course management and administrative tasks.
About The Client
The client is a technology-enabled solutions company that provides comprehensive regulatory and operational compliance solutions to construction, industrial and utility industries.
