Green Building Education Services, a provider of professional skills certification and continuing education to individuals around the world, also needed to serve businesses, unions, educational institutions, and other groups.
The needs of these corporate groups covered a wide range: Some wished simply to provide educational opportunities to employees, with minimal further involvement, but others needed to initiate and monitor user registration and enrollment, track learner activity and course progress in detail, and provide tools for instructors.
In some cases tools previously developed for individuals – like customized landing pages and transcripts – could be modified for groups. Tools developed for corporate groups in many cases turned out to be useful for individual learners/customers.
This collaborative process between site operators and developer unfolded over the course of years. Its features could never have been anticipated and implemented ahead of time, much less designed via some series of plain language agentic AI queries.
In addition to thousands of lines of custom PHP, Javascript, and MySQL code, the suite relies on integration of numerous WordPress plugins and javascript libraries, including BuddyBoss/BuddyPress, Learndash, Elementor, DataTables, TourGuide JS, Gravity Forms, Advanced Custom Fields, Uncanny Owl plugins, weDocs, and WP Crontrol.
Features not just developed but evolved since initial implementation include:
- A searchable custom groups archive fully replacing the LearnDash and BuddyBoss defaults.
- A Group Administration page for Group Leaders that makes user and course data easily available without visits to the WordPress back end.
- An internal caching system making it practical and convenient to display detailed data for groups with thousands of members.
- Group Configuration pages for the creation and management by staff of groups with varied feature packages.
- Special optional features for groups.
- Integration with Uncanny Learndash Codes for user registration.
- Custom import and enrollment tools enabling staff and designated Group Leaders to register new users, add them to groups, and enroll them in courses or course packages.
- Detailed Quiz and general user activity Data extracted from SCORM file (Rise and Articulate) interactions. made available by course, user, and group.
- Custom “TourGuides” providing simple usage instruction for untrained operators.
- Detailed documentation for site operators
