A bilingual learning platform for exam candidates
Lessons, timed mock exams and progress reports for a network of secondary schools — in French and English, on the phones students already have.
- Client
- Lumière Schools Network
- Year
- 2025
- Timeline
- 6 months
- Platforms
- Web · Android
- Languages
- French · English
01
The challenge
The network's schools prepared students for national exams with photocopied past papers and handwritten marking. Teachers had no view of which topics a class was struggling with until results arrived, and parents saw a single grade at the end of term.
02
Our approach
We built a web platform for teachers and a lightweight mobile app for students, designed for inexpensive Android phones and intermittent data. Mock exams follow the official formats in both languages, run on a timer and continue offline. Marking for objective questions is instant; teachers mark written answers against a shared rubric.
Reporting was designed with teachers in weekly sessions. The result is a topic-level view of every class, and a one-page summary parents can read on a phone.
03
The outcome
Teachers plan revision around what each class actually gets wrong. Students sit more practice exams because they can do it on the bus. Parents receive a short, readable progress update every fortnight.
What we did
- Product design
- Web engineering
- Mobile engineering
- Content tooling
- Next.js
- React Native
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Redis