This project was put in place to provide an alternative to in-person school for children from pre-school all the way to Year 10 in my organisation's group of schools.

I functioned as the product designer (UI focus) and chief content officer of the platform. I was mostly in charge of:

- UI design and optimisation of the landing page for the project and the whole LMS 

- Workflow management 

- Pre and post production of the 300+ video lessons using an iPhone camera, Final Cut Pro X, Affinity Designer and Phonto. 

-  Creating, designing, editing, quality control and uploading of the academic content on the host LMS. 

I also produced the product walk-through - scripting ,voice-over, recording and editing. 

The product walk-through is below!

CONTENT FOCUS

Instructors/SMEs sent in their notes and I was in charge of coordinating the transformation of those notes into slides (using Keynote, Powerpoint and Canva), and making sure the formatting in the notes was done correctly (subheadings where required, good punctuation, clear and concise explanations to match the level of the class).

I worked with two editors, at different times for about a third of the videos, while handling the others completely myself. They did the rough cuts of the videos (infusing the presentation and slides) and made sure the audio was alright, while I handled the motion graphics (very basic), integration of short cartoons and produced the final videos. I let the camera people know what shots I wanted for certain things for example, in a science class, I wanted a close up of the materials being explained, with no talking, after he had done his explanations. Most of these things were communicated using briefs. 

The presenters were instructors and they just taught how they normally would in class, it wasn’t scripted unfortunately, but I would cut away the unnecessary bits during editing and make sure the points were made in a logical order.

Below I have a few examples of the graphics I made for each subject, that you also saw in the video, so that's about 7 subjects for each class in preschool and grade school, 16 for junior secondary and about 10-12 for senior secondary.

This is one of the lessons I wrote for a Grade 4 class, pulling on their knowledge of the solar system and the circumference of a circle to explain the speed of light, and to encourage divergent thinking about the universe and our place in it.

Two types of videos were created. The first type consisted of an intro, slides with voiceovers, an animation and an outro summarising the lesson. The second type is a straight video where the instructor just teaches as normal with motion graphics inserted and animation included mid video. They followed an already prepared powerpoint and notes to allow them remember the structure and content but the lessons were not scripted.

We created UX maps to ensure that the student end was simple and easily accessible. For the back end, we needed to do a couple of tests to ensure that unauthorised users could not access the course content. This included setting up a paywall using automation and the member approval system in Wix and exploring ways to control user access on the VLE.