Praful Gupta - Postscript

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Should NextLeap build an LMS?

What is our vision?

Enable the talent in the workspace to realise their true-potential

How will we achieve it?

Empower the best teachers to create world-class CBC’s that help people up-skill and get better at what they do

Create CBC’s on topics that our team can teach

Learn and understand what creates a great learning experience

Get the best people in the world to teach CBC’s and use our learnings to make these CBC’s great

Where are we at right now?

Started with DMPM sprint and then the APM fellowship

Validated our initial hypothesis on what makes a great learning experience

Used Notion, Zoom and Slack to conduct these CBCs

Where do we want to be at by 2022 end?

Best teachers are able to create CBCs for NextLeap

Play-books and Infra to creating a good CBC

Build an engaging community of self-leaners

Deciding if we should build an LMS

Framing

Will we be able to scale NextLeap without an LMS?

Will an LMS improve our learners learning experience?

Stakeholders

We can segment our stakeholders in primarily three segments

Learners

Teachers and collaborators

NextLeap team

Problems with the current setup

Stakeholders

Problems today and tomorrow

Learners

Time-consuming for the learners to access the course

Information is distributed across different places

Calendar: Schedule and call invites

Notion: Session recording and course resources

Slack: Communication and engagement with fellow learners and mentors

Time-consuming for the learners to create notes

One of the most important part of these courses is that the learners can come back and refresh on any topic to use them in their daily lives. The material available however for even a small 2 week course like DMPM can be overwhelming when someone is trying to look for that one concept.

To solve this problem, a learner would make notes. But since the course material ranges from Videos, Reading material, Slides and so on, it can be daunting at times to make notes by clipping videos, taking screenshots and so on

In doc slide decks are pathetic in Notion

Teachers and collaboraters

Time consuming and difficult for the teachers to setup the automations required for their course

Emails to all the signed up leaners

Guest additions in the Notion pages

Guest additions in the Slack rooms

This will discourage teachers to create courses for NextLeap

NextLeap team

Impossible to track and measure learner’s progress with limited functionalities of the current stack (Notion, Zoom, Slack)

Time consuming to setup and monitor automations for each course

For courses that might have a large number of learners like the APM Fellowship, it might add more complications to setup and monitor these automations

Loss of upsell opportunities when a learner is revising their completed course and we have new courses which they might be interested in

Setting up type-forms for every course

Typeform business plan only allows 5 users.

When we will have new courses being taught by other teachers, we would need to be there to create forms or them

The alternative would be to ask the teachers to create their own typeform account

This would result in us losing the data for these forms (since we won’t have the access) or it will be way too complicated/time consuming to get the teachers share their forms feedback

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Impact of solving this problem

Improve our learners’ learning experience

Help us scale and launch new courses

Help us track learner’s progress and gamify it to increase overall success of the learning

Why should we be solving this problem now?

We need to know what makes a great LMS before we scale our platform to more teachers

Just like our teaching methodology, we also need to understand what would make a great LMS

If we solve this problem now, we will be able to use this LMS for our next couple of courses. We will use the feedback and learnings from them to improve our LMS so that it can be used by any teacher on our platform

Possible negative consequences of building our own LMS

Inadequate capabilities

When we build our own LMS, we can’t build all the capabilities at-once. For example, we might not build video-conferencing or capability to build in-app forms in our first version.

These restrictions can result in teachers using other products that could lead to learners hopping on and off between different products which was one of the problem we intend to solve

Less engagement as compared to Slack

Building a communication/engagement platform like Slack is no small feat. They have invested years and millions to be at where they are.

We might not be able to build as engaging communicating platform as we would like and this would impact the “Social” part of our learning experience

We might have to depend on Slack for a foreseeable future to power engagement between our learners

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