Improve the learning experience with our education software solutions

An educational app aims to provide people with knowledge regarding their interests. There are industry-specific educational applications, as well as those fully dedicated to general knowledge. These solutions can be easily useful for individual students and teachers, as well as academic circles. Generally, there are 4 essential components of educational apps:

1. Powerful database;
2. Intuitive navigation & offline mode;
3. Interactivity & gamification;
4. Push notifications.

If you’re looking to build a universal educational platform, it’s important to keep in mind learning patterns of your users and answer to the most common e-Learning challenges.

There is a number of specific features that can help you tell a proper and reliable educational platform from a fraudulent or low-quality one:

• Accreditation support;
• Online course catalogs;
• Reputable educators;
• Active customer support & administration;
• Collaboration & social learning enabled;
• Automated learning;
• Real-user reviews.

In order to create a credible e-Learning solution, you need to put quality over quantity. Think Masterclass, which offers a handful of courses from the top industry leaders.

Educational applications are very popular and the recent need to implement distance education has only increased the demand for a good e-Learning software. Nowadays, education platforms come in all shapes, sizes, and prices, and you’re certain to have heard of some and, perhaps, even used one on an everyday basis. The most popular free & paid education solutions include:

• Google Classroom;
• Duolingo;
• Kahoot!
• Udemy;
• Coursera;
• Khan Academy;
• Skillshare;
• Moodle

The list does go on quite a bit. So before you can choose the best educational platform for you – it’d be helpful to define clear goals you are trying to achieve.

In web and mobile application development, it is almost impossible to estimate the price without learning the project specifics first. The final cost will depend on the number of features you want to include, the complexity of the code, and so, first and foremost, on the man-hours invested in your project. You can find more info on the subject in our blog.

Every development team, every software agency, and every freelancer has their own approach to the process of app development. At Miquido, we try to look at the big picture prior to tasking our engineers with coding. So if you were to choose us for your education app development process, it would look something like this:

• Step 1: Ideation & Strategy. We carefully overview your business approach, back up our recommendations with solid research and user feedback, and ideate the best direction for your idea.
• Step 2: Workshops & preparation. Next, we carry out a series of workshops depending on your needs. They help us prepare wireframes of your app and the first design drafts.
• Step 3: Design & development. This is the most exciting part of the project, as we complete the work on designs and bring your application to life. It usually takes us up to 3 months to develop a market-ready minimum viable product.
• Step 4: MVP release. Minimum viable product stands for the market-ready early version of your app. Its release allows us to collect real user feedback and introduce any changes/updates based on it, if necessary.
• Step 5: Long-term cooperation. At Miquido, we appreciate long-term partnerships with our clients. Whether you decide to take your project a step further in the future, or if you require any sort of assistance of moving the product in-house – we’ll be there for you!

With all this in mind you might be wondering, how long does it actually take to develop an education app like that? Well, every project is unique, so there’s no one-size-fit-all response here. However, it rarely takes us more than 3 months to complete the MVP.