This project consisted of a number of functional enhancements, bug fixing and troubleshooting on the existing e-learning delivery platform at Manchester University's Medical School.
These systems are relatively complex and fragile, and combine code from various sources, including 3rd party open-source components. A careful understanding of the system's architecture and data structures are needed.
Project Summary
I created a number of bespoke administration interfaces that speed up the process of putting together the program year-specific materials, and integrated very fine-grained control of course content visibility and release dates. I fixed various long-term problems that were present on the front-end delivery, and added a number of front end features including improved search and taxonomy filtering.
Key aspects of the work included:
- A detailed understanding of the system architecture
- Augmenting existing administration screens
- Creating new interfaces
- Rebuilding content delivery templates
- Adding very fine control of course content visibility and release
- Adding bulk editing features
- Creating bespoke picking / dragging interfaces for quickly assigning relationship hierarchy between content types
- Creating content search and taxonomy filtering
- Fixing Javascript problems
- Fixing the site's mobile layout and navigation
