Assessment reporting for e-learning platform

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Client

Benchmark Education

Education Technology

Services Provided

Infrastructure Architecture and Buildout
Infrastructure as a Code
DevOps
Near Real-Time Data Analytics
Data warehousing
Web Development
API Development
Quality Assurance
Performance Testing
Design / UX

Technology

AWS Redshift
AWS Kinesis
AWS S3
AWS Cloudfront
AWS ECR
AWS ECS (Fargate)
AWS CloudWatch
AWS RDS (Postgres)
AWS Lambda
AWS Glue
AWS Cloudformation
Circle CI
React
Java / Spring Boot
JMeter
GitHub

Implemented improved interactive reporting to better assess and monitor students’ needs and progress

Challenge

Benchmark Education has been a leader in the educational publishing industry for over a decade. Their web-based e-Learning platform, Benchmark Universe, provides a diverse range of digital tools and products for teachers, students, and administrators including assessments and reporting tools. Benchmark wanted to enhance their reporting and analytical capabilities by establishing a new data lake, reporting service and reporting user interface. In addition, they wanted to lay down the foundation for additional analytic and reporting capabilities in future releases of their product.

Solution

In order to complete their vision and implement the improvements in advanced reporting and analytics, Benchmark partnered with IntraEdge to help design and build their new interactive reporting platform for Benchmark Universe. As a team, we established a cloud native architecture powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) which involved:

Ingestion of student assessment data using AWS Kinesis
Establishing data lake using Amazon S3
Data warehouse using Amazon Redshift
Auto scalable API Engine powered by Java and deployed on Amazon ECS (Fargate)
Custom reporting platform using React and deployed on Amazon S3 and Cloudfont
CI/CD Pipeline using CircleCI
Infrastructure as a code using AWS CloudFormation

The entire platform was designed and developed with a robust Agile Team comprising of 15+ engineers and designers working both onshore and offshore.

Outcome

The Benchmark Universe Reporting platform was successfully launched in August 2019 and provides new and improved reporting and visualizations for comparing student and class performance data. These new capabilities provide teachers and administrators with access to additional insights and greatly improved data visualizations for making better informed decisions on students’ progress and educational needs. In addition, IntraEdge was successfully able to lay down the foundations for additional reporting with the ability to release these features at the end of every Sprint. IntraEdge continues to work with Benchmark to keep improving and adding new reporting capabilities and features.

Due to the success of this project, Benchmark has partnered with IntraEdge to help improve other areas of the Benchmark Universe platform.

People are the Platform

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