Managing Multiple Schools with Intranet Portal Using Liferay DXP

About Customer

With over 60,000 students, our client is one of the leading educational ecosystems in the United Arab Emirates. Starting with just three schools in 2018, they have since established over 40 schools. The institution is dedicated to creating the best opportunities for teachers and faculty to empower students.

Despite being one of the largest school chain institutions in the country, our customer used to operate traditionally. The school had limited digitization due to the absence of a student portal, faculty portal, parent portal, and school management system. The institution aimed to implement a public website and intranet portal to drive digital growth and enhance collaboration efficiency.

Number of Employees : 1,200+

Business Needs & Challenges

The lack of a student portal: Students couldn't access their academic records, schedules, and other critical information directly due to the absence of the student portal. Moreover, they faced multiple challenges, including communication breakdowns, low engagement, missed deadlines, and lower performance.

Parents login portal: It was challenging for parents to stay informed about their child's academic progress. Additionally, parents were unable to access their child's grades, attendance, information about parent-teacher meetings, and schedules.

Faculty Intranet Portal: The unavailability of the school's intranet portal made it hard for faculties and teachers to collaborate internally or communicate with students. Since faculties couldn't keep reports and records of students handy, they failed to personalize learning for their students.

School website: The institution couldn't share important news and events without a reliable content management system. Also, the school couldn't effectively collaborate or communicate with the public. It was challenging for schools to attract new students and faculties.

School management: The absence of a school management system caused challenges with manual processes, time-consuming tasks, administrative inefficiencies, lack of transparency, limited engagement, and unequal access.

Services Provided

OUR APPROACH

As a whole, we focused on implementing a digital solution that doesn't only transform traditional operations but meets the unique requirements of students, parents, faculties, and the institution as well.

CONSULTING

The transparent communication helped us comprehend the exact challenges and requirements of the school, and it helped the client understand the development roadmap and expected results of our solution.

DESIGN

As suggested by the client, we crafted wireframes, layouts, navigations, and user-friendly UI/UX designs for the public website, student portal, parent portal, and teacher portal to surpass user expectations.

DEVELOPMENT

Utilizing our Liferay development expertise and integrating Single-Sign-On, UAE Pass, and login API, our experts developed a public website and an intranet portal tailored to the client's custom requirements.

DEPLOYMENT

Following QA testing and bug fixes, we deployed the public website and intranet portal onto the client's infrastructure. Moreover, we provided post-deployment training and services for smooth user adoption.