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The Virtual Lab School came to Oomph to create the next generation of their distance learning platform with a focus on security, performance, and scalability for wider adoption. We leveraged query- and render-caching to support high performance alongside personalization to an individual level. The result is an application that is quicker to load, more secure, and able to support hundreds more concurrent users.
THE BRIEF
The Virtual Lab School (VLS) supports military educators with training and enrichment around educational practices from birth through age 12. Their curriculum was developed by a partnership between Ohio State University and the U.S. Department of Defense to assist direct-care providers, curriculum specialists, management personnel, and home-based care providers. Because of the distributed nature of educators around the world, courses and certifications are offered virtually through the VLS website.
Comprehensive Platform Assessment
The existing online learning platform had a deep level of complexity under the surface. For a student educator taking a certification course, the site tracks progress through the curriculum. For training leaders, they need to see how their students are progressing, assign additional coursework, or assist a student educator through a particular certification.
Learning platforms in general are complex, and this one is no different. Add to this an intertwined set of military-style administration privileges and it produces a complex tree of layers and permutations.
The focus of the platform assessment phase was to catalog features of the largely undocumented legacy system, uncover complexity that could be simplified, and most importantly identify opportunities for efficiencies.
Faster and More Secure than Ever Before
When building for speed and scalability, fully leveraging Drupal’s advanced caching system is a major way to support those goals. The system design leverages query- and render-caching to support a high level of performance while also supporting personalization to an individual level. This is accomplished with computed fields and auto-placeholdering utilizing lazy builder.
The result is an application that is quicker to load, more secure, and able to support hundreds more concurrent users.
Why Drupal?
When building for speed and scalability, fully leveraging Drupal’s advanced caching system is a major way to support those goals. The system design leverages query- and render-caching to support a high level of performance while also supporting personalization to an individual level. This is accomplished with computed fields and auto-placeholdering utilizing lazy builder.
The result is an application that is quicker to load, more secure, and able to support hundreds more concurrent users.
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Project Information
Client:
Virtual Lab School
Location:
United States
Date:
June 24, 2023
Website:
https://www.virtuallabschool.org/
