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Project: Coursabi

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Michael ArgentiniWednesday, July 3, 2024

Fynydd partnered with Blue Sequoyah Technologies to build a community-driven learning platform named Coursabi, which gives learners a simple but powerful way to grow as they follow their learning journey. Their dashboard shows them progress to-date and what assignments are next. They can explore the content library for elective learning, sign documents, and complete forms. And the community gives them a way to learn from peers and content authors.

Coursabi Mission Control is where authorized users can create and organize training content like documents, forms, and courses. There are also libraries for audio and video content, as well as imported learning modules. People and learning assignments are managed here. And administrators and training managers can stay up-to-date using dashboards, reports, notifications, community activity, and so much more.

  • Amazon AWS, CloudFront, S3, Okta SSO
  • SCORM/xAPI/HTML import, native Coursabi content
  • Courses, documents, audio, video, forms, events, community, and more
  • Real-time reporting and analytics suite
  • Native content builders
  • Assignments, progress tracking, notifications
  • Team and role-based security for authors, members, and content
Screenshots

Key Technologies

Front-End

Blazor

C#

CSS3

HTML5

JavaScript

Microsoft .NET

Sass/SCSS

Cloud Back-End

Amazon Web Services

C#

Github

Microsoft .NET

Microsoft Windows

SQL Server

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Project: BPCC Open Campus Mobile

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Michael ArgentiniWednesday, May 1, 2024
Bossier-Parish Community College campus, Bossier City, LA. Bossier-Parish Community College campus, Bossier City, LA.

Fynydd was asked to build a hybrid iOS, Android, and web-based learning app platform for enrolled and public students at Bossier Parish Community College (BPCC) in Bossier City, Louisiana. This was a full-stack platform that included a data tier, API service with management interface, client apps (App Store, Google Play Store), and responsive website.

The goal of the project was to research the efficacy of gamification strategies with regard to testing up and testing out of courses prior to enrollment. Secondarily it provided a great way for students to study and hone their knowledge during each semester.

The platform provided various curriculum through video courses, which each had check your knowledge quizzing as students progressed. Students could earn badges as they advanced through their learning journey and also challenge each other to quiz games for additional badges and bragging rights via a leader board.

Some of the features of the platform include:

  • Hosted on Amazon EC2
  • Multilingual using i18n
  • Integration of Wiris MathType for complex math equations
  • Integration with Canvas LMS
  • Peer to peer learning games with badging, grading, and advanced tracking
  • Library of video courses, quiz engine
  • SSO with social platforms including Facebook, Twitter/X, and Google
Screenshots

Key Technologies

Front-End

Android

Angular

CSS3

HTML5

Ionic Framework

iOS

JavaScript

Sass/SCSS

Cloud Back-End

Amazon Web Services

C#

Github

Microsoft .NET

Microsoft Windows

React

SQL Server

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Project: Campus Outreach ThinkDrink Analytics

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Michael ArgentiniFriday, March 1, 2024
COS has partnered with the Pentagon, the Department of Defense, and over 20 U.S. military bases to achieve increased knowledge, empathy, and improved bystander engagement over the last 30 years. COS has partnered with the Pentagon, the Department of Defense, and over 20 U.S. military bases to achieve increased knowledge, empathy, and improved bystander engagement over the last 30 years.

Campus Outreach Services offers unmatched sexual assault prevention training, substance use programs, mental health school assemblies, college transitions workshops, and customized series of other wellness topics. With compelling presenters and pragmatic resources, our impact lasts beyond an hour, a week, a year. We deliver pin-drop moments for lifetime change.

Campus Outreach Services partnered with Fynydd to create an analytics dashboard for their ThinkDrink learning platform. They needed to show efficacy across demographics and teams including longitudinal test results for their ThinkDrink program.

The platform enables subscribers to track course completion, filter, compare and share results, and see overall efficacy.

Some of the key features of the project include:

  • 9,000 users across 80 distinct organizations
  • Custom Moodle/PHP/MySQL implementation on Ubuntu Linux, Vimeo as secure video CDN
  • 9 filter criteria, 7 chart layouts, and 5 demographic segments
  • Student score comparisons across school boundaries
  • Analysis of a three phase testing process, including a longitudinal test, to show retention and efficacy
Screenshots

Key Technologies

Front-End

CSS3

HTML5

JavaScript

Sass/SCSS

Cloud Back-End

Github

Moodle

MySQL

PHP

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Project: CLSI AMS And Shopping Platform

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Michael ArgentiniThursday, February 1, 2024

The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) is a not-for-profit organization that develops laboratory standards worldwide. Our standards are recognized by laboratories, accreditors, and government agencies as the best way to improve medical laboratory testing.

CLSI partnered with Fynydd to create a web platform for marketing their organization, provide member and volunteer services, membership management, and a shop for their Standards documents.

The platform integrated with NetForum and other third party services to provide a single, complete access portal for staff, members, and volunteers.

The shop provided unique pricing, options, and user experiences for anonymous visitors, members, and customers in developing countries. Standards products provided digital samples and full specifications, as well as customized pricing based on the visitor.

A member portal provided everything a member needs to manage their profile, membership details, purchase history, downloadable products, event attendance, membership certification, nominations, volunteer history, and more. It also provided delegates with management tools for authorized employees in their account.

Other tools and features include public file management for volunteer communication and education, outbound links to services such as their eClipse platform and support system, a shopping cart reminder system, product import and publication tools, and so much more.

Some of the key features of the platform include:

  • Based on ASP.NET MVC and Umbraco CMS, hosted on Microsoft Azure
  • Full integration with NetForum AMS, including product data and membership management, e-commerce
  • Complex sales pipeline
  • Complex member management features
  • Catalyst Fire Ignition, SmokeSignal, and Flashpoint integration for enhanced NetForum communication and single sign-on (SSO)
  • Non-destructive product data sync keeps the site online even if NetForum is not available
  • Responsive HTML5 framework
  • Membership management, product sales (e-commerce), blog, news, videos, slideshows, file management, and more
  • Transactional email service for website visitor and shop communication
Screenshots

Key Technologies

Front-End

CSS3

HTML5

JavaScript

Sass/SCSS

Cloud Back-End

C#

Github

Microsoft .NET

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Windows

NetForum

SQL Server

Umbraco CMS

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Project: New Relic Playbooks

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Michael ArgentiniFriday, December 1, 2023

Full-Stack Observability helps engineers plan, build, deploy, and run great software. Only New Relic has a unified data platform for all telemetry data—metrics, events, logs and traces—paired with analysis tools to find solutions fast. Move past the ‘what’ to uncover the ‘why’.

New Relic partnered with Fynydd to create a sales training platform. New Relic needed to train new sales personnel using the latest product information and real-world scenarios to ensure customers were given the best fit recommendations.

They had already approved a WordPress multi-tenant environment for these kinds of use cases so that's the content management system we used. Given the security track record of WordPress we normally don't recommend using it. Since the New Relic IT department was hosting at WPEngine and securing the platform, our concerns were not as serious as they would have been had the platform been on the public Internet.

With regard to security, we also had to integrate with their corporate Okta single sign-on (SSO) platform to restrict the LMS to authorized users in the sales department.

Some of the project highlights include:

  • WordPress Multisite, hosted at WP Engine
  • Responsive HTML5/CSS3 framework
  • Okta/SAML 2.0 SSO integration
  • Shared content and media
  • Multiple author workflows
  • Embedded media
Screenshots

Key Technologies

Front-End

CSS3

HTML5

JavaScript

Sass/SCSS

Cloud Back-End

Amazon Web Services

Github

MySQL

PHP

WordPress

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Project: ICPA Association Membership Website

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Michael ArgentiniTuesday, July 1, 2014

The International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) strives to create a healthier and more balanced planet. The ICPA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance chiropractic by establishing evidence-informed practice, supporting excellence in professional skills and delivering educational resources to the public. What began as a dream from founder Dr. Larry Webster in 1986 to better train chiropractors in family care has grown into a global mission to support the health and well-being of families worldwide.

ICPA was growing and needed a new business/client management system for their global chiropractic membership and decided to partner with Fynydd. Their back office was decentralized, using tools like Microsoft Access, which made it difficult for staff to collaborate in workflows. Consequently, many of their processes were performed manually, which was a poor use of membership funding.

Organization members could not view any details about their membership, seminar registrations, subscriptions, payments, etc., which added to their growing customer service. Web forms relied on the user to supply the correct information for what they were requesting, which resulted in a lot of bad information being stored, which had to be cleaned up manually in many cases.

We started by working with ICPA to understand their business pain points. We then collaborated on defining workflows, so we knew what each type of user should experience through different funnels. We then defined the information architecture, and spent time building a complex import tool which would transform data from various sources into this new structure. It was challenging, but allowed us to import over 30,000 contacts dating back to the 1990s; about 3gb of data. It was like they hadn't missed a beat!

The platform we chose was Umbraco CMS, which would become a multi-site web host as ICPA consolidated their other online presences into the new system. Within Umbraco we built a responsive HTML5 framework that looked great on tablets and phones. Next up was Stripe integration, which was used to process payments (including automatic renewals), and which is completely PCI-compliant. And Constant Contact was integrated for their newsletter subscriptions.

In all, this business management system is much more accessible, even outside of the office and on mobile devices. Employees have much more time to focus on tasks that matter instead of mundane, repetitive tasks. And the new system easily handles membership and certification management, seminar registration, blog, product sales, help center, and more.

Some of the key features of the platform include:

  • Based on ASP.NET MVC and Umbraco CMS, hosted on Amazon Web Services
  • Full integration with Stripe for PCI-compliant payment processing
  • Integration with Constant Contact
  • Membership & certification management, seminar registration, blog, product sales, help center, and more
  • Organization management features
  • Automation for smoother operations
  • Responsive HTML5 framework
  • Transactional email service for website visitor and shop communication
  • Significant decrease in customer service calls
  • Employees are more productive
  • The system is much more accessible, even outside of the office and on mobile devices
Screenshots

Key Technologies

Front-End

CSS3

HTML5

JavaScript

Sass/SCSS

Cloud Back-End

Amazon Web Services

C#

Constant Contact

Github

Microsoft .NET

Microsoft Windows

SQL Server

Stripe

Umbraco CMS

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Project: Endo Jumpstart Video Training Program

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Michael ArgentiniTuesday, April 1, 2014

The Endo Pharmaceuticals sales department needed to improve the previous year's compliance training per regulatory requirements.

The previous platform was a step in the right direction, but had some hiccups regarding availability and consequently, a timely pass rate. Reporting on the activity and results, especially during the training period, was minimal, so executives had no way to know how the training was proceeding, in case they needed to intercede early and make adjustments, or report back successes.

It was clear from their challenges that there were some real opportunities to improve the entire training process. So Endo chose Fynydd to be their technical partner. We started by addresses availability. It became clear that the primary bottleneck was with the video hosting as it was on-premises. We worked with Endo to establish a private, secure, video content delivery network (CDN) at vimeo.

The next focus was on reporting. We gathered all the requirements and created a strategy for presenting regional analytics that gave stakeholders exactly what they needed to see.

To make it all happen, we chose Umbraco CMS to speed the product to market and provide the underpinning for membership, authentication, and of course, content management. The result was stunning. Over 2,500 people were trained in 2 weeks. There was 100% availability, and most importantly a 100% pass rate. And there were less than 10 support calls.

Some of the services we provided include:

  • API integrations
  • Bandwidth and traffic analysis
  • CMS development
  • Technical research, consulting
  • User experience strategy and design
  • User interface design

Some of the key features of the platform include:

  • Based on ASP.NET MVC and Umbraco CMS, hosted on Amazon Web Services
  • Microsoft SQL Server database
  • Responsive HTML5 with SCSS
  • iPad web app
  • Secure Vimeo training video CDN
  • Transactional email service
  • Over 2,500 users trained in 2 weeks
  • Less than 10 support calls
  • 100% deployment
  • 100% pass rate
Screenshots

Key Technologies

Front-End

CSS3

HTML5

JavaScript

Sass/SCSS

Cloud Back-End

Amazon Web Services

C#

Github

Microsoft .NET

Microsoft Windows

SQL Server

Umbraco CMS

Vimeo

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