Education Software Development
Education software has an unusually wide user base — students, teachers, administrators and parents, with very different needs and confidence levels — and load that arrives in predictable, brutal peaks.
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Constraints specific to education
The problems that shape software here, and that generic engineering tends to discover late.
Load arrives in spikes the calendar dictates
Enrolment week, assessment deadlines and results day concentrate a term's traffic into hours. Capacity planning is unusually predictable and unusually unforgiving.
Accessibility is a legal requirement, not a preference
Public-sector education is bound by accessibility legislation in most jurisdictions. Building to WCAG from the start costs little; retrofitting an inaccessible platform is a rebuild.
Student data carries specific protections
Student records are regulated separately from general personal data in many jurisdictions, and platforms serving younger learners carry additional restrictions on collection and advertising.
Four user groups, one system
A learner, an instructor, an administrator and a parent need genuinely different interfaces over shared data. Collapsing them into one experience serves none of them well.
Software we build for education
Learning platforms
Course delivery, progress tracking and content management, with standards-based interoperability where your institution requires it.
Assessment and examination systems
Timed assessment, submission handling and marking workflows built for integrity and for graceful behaviour when a candidate's connection drops mid-attempt.
Student information systems
Enrolment, records, scheduling and reporting, integrated with the finance and identity systems institutions already run.
Accessible-by-default interfaces
Keyboard operability, screen-reader semantics, captioning support and contrast decided at design time across every surface.
Standards that apply to software in this sector
What the software has to be built to satisfy. Which of these apply to you depends on your jurisdiction, your data and your customers.
[ 01 ]
US student records
- FERPA
[ 02 ]
Children's data
- COPPA
- Age-appropriate design codes
[ 03 ]
General data protection
- GDPR
- UK GDPR
[ 04 ]
Accessibility
- WCAG 2.2
- Section 508
- EN 301 549
[ 05 ]
Interoperability
- LTI
- SCORM
- xAPI
- OneRoster
These are the standards we design and build to meet. Certification or attestation of your organisation is a separate exercise, carried out by a qualified assessor — we can support that process with documentation and evidence, but we do not certify it.
Tell us who's using it and when it peaks
Discuss an education projectHow we'd approach it
The service lines this sector most often needs.
Web Application Development
Scalable web applications on modern frameworks, engineered for first-load performance and sustained load.
Custom Software Development
Bespoke systems shaped around your operations, integrated with the tools and data you already run on.
Mobile App Development
Native and cross-platform iOS and Android apps, built for real network conditions rather than office Wi-Fi.
Product Design & Discovery
Discovery, UX and interface design that resolves the expensive questions before implementation starts.
Projects in this space
EdTech and Activity Management
ActivityHub
A SaaS platform connecting parents with children's activity providers across web, mobile and iPad.
- 94 min/week
- Time saved for activity providers managing activities
- 863K
- Messages sent between users
- 39K
- Sessions hosted on the platform
EdTech — 3D & VR Simulations
Impactall
The backend, admin dashboard and initial web and mobile app behind Impactall's Be Curious learning platform.
Education: common questions
Something specific to your operation?
Send it over — sector questions are the ones we most like getting.
Ask us01
Can you integrate with our existing LMS or student information system?
Yes. LTI is the usual route for tool integration with a learning management system, and student information systems typically expose either an API or a scheduled export. Where a system supports OneRoster or similar, roster synchronisation becomes considerably simpler.
02
How do you handle exam integrity?
Through a combination of timing controls, submission integrity, activity logging and question randomisation where it suits the assessment. We would rather be direct about the limits here: no remote system makes cheating impossible, and heavy-handed proctoring carries real accessibility and privacy costs. The right balance is an institutional decision we can inform but should not make.
03
What does accessibility compliance actually involve?
In practice, meeting WCAG 2.2 at AA: full keyboard operability, correct semantic structure for screen readers, sufficient contrast, captions and transcripts for media, and forms whose errors are announced rather than only shown. Designed in from the start it is close to cost-neutral, which is the main argument for not deferring it.
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How do you plan for enrolment or results-day traffic?
By load-testing against the actual expected peak rather than a comfortable multiple of average traffic, and by designing the specific paths that spike — enrolment, results lookup, submission — to scale independently of the rest of the platform.
Adjacent sectors
Tell us who's using it and when it peaks
Describe your learners, your institution's systems and your busiest week. We'll come back with an approach.
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