Bacon’s College is a London-based secondary school and sixth-form college

The Challenge

Lilo was asked to develop a comprehensive school CMS for Bacon’s College Website, specific to their education needs. Usability was a key factor and the staff of Bacon’s College had to be given complete control over the entire CMS of their website.

Sector:	High School/ Education
Services:	Web Design, Web Development, Bespoke CMS, Branding
Technologies:	ASP.Net with C#, SQL Server, HTML / CSS, Flash
Location:	United Kingdom

The Solution

During the development of this education CMS website, Lilo benchmarked various content management systems, exploring the best possible way of presenting editable content online through a CMS.

Project Scope of Works

Our team of school website designers and developers also engaged with students and teachers, facilitating usability workshops to ensure that all user needs would be met.

The bespoke website we created allows students to effortlessly:

Create a new profile with which to enroll in the various courses
Pay for each course with a choice of popular payment options
Complete course modules / assignments
Communicate with their tutors
Take exams

Each student has access to a course dashboard, where they can see all available courses and lessons. Each lesson contains a lesson plan, notes from the tutors, the ability to upload notes and lessons for evaluation – and each submission’s results.

Each tutor also has their own personal profile with dashboard, where they can view all student information (their courses, lessons, status of lessons, all submitted materials etc.). A reporting system was set in place to mark student progress, and award passes / diplomas.

Resources / Planning

Website Designers
Front-End Programmers
Back-End Programmers
Project Managers
Quality Assurance Testers
UX Specialists
SEO Specialists

The Result

We created a bespoke education CMS where the administrator is able to manage the content, assets, and templates of the entire website. The administrator can also define user groups and assign user permissions. The CMS contains a variety of pre-developed page templates, themes, and assets.

The Bacon’s College CMS exhibits high-end functionality and design in a usable and accessible format. Staff members can upload pages, content, images, news articles, calendars, and a variety of other assets and features. The Bacon’s College staff members can organise and manage their entire site structure through the “Manage my site” tool.