academic dashboard
Simplifying Student Records with a Hybrid LMS
Simplifying Student Records with a Hybrid LMS
ROLE
Lead UX/UI Designer
Lead UX/UI Designer
Lead UX/UI Designer
Duration
7 weeks, 130 hours
7 weeks, 130 hours
7 weeks, 130 hours
Overview
Overview
Overview
Collaborated and led a team of student designers to create a Hybrid LMS with a Focus on Student Management for Cornerstone International Community College of Canada (CICCC), a college in Vancouver offering classes to international students.
As a capstone project, it was selected from three proposals by client, instructors, and program leadership.
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Goals
Goals
Goals
Easy management and access to academic data.
Reduce time spent on administrative tasks.
Simple, user-friendly experience for admins, instructors, and students.
Easy management and access to academic data.
Reduce time spent on administrative tasks.
Simple, user-friendly experience for admins, instructors, and students.
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Challenges
Challenges
Challenges
Academic data is difficult to manage and access.
Existing systems are overly complex and cluttered.
The school needs a lighter, more focused solution.
Academic data is difficult to manage and access.
Existing systems are overly complex and cluttered.
The school needs a lighter, more focused solution.
Solution
Solution
Solution
The resulting system offers reduced manual effort, improves access to critical information, and provides role-specific experiences.
The resulting system offers reduced manual effort, improves access to critical information, and provides role-specific experiences.
Role-Based Experience
Personalized dashboards surface the most relevant information and actions for each user role.
ACADEMIC RECORDS
Quick access to academic information, reducing time spent searching across scattered resources.
Attendance & Grades
Streamlined attendance and grading workflows minimize repetitive tasks while keeping essential actions close to the content.
Role-Based Experience
Personalized dashboards surface the most relevant information and actions for each user role.
ACADEMIC RECORDS
Quick access to academic information, reducing time spent searching across scattered resources.
Attendance & Grades
Streamlined attendance and grading workflows minimize repetitive tasks while keeping essential actions close to the content.
Role-Based Experience
Personalized dashboards surface the most relevant information and actions for each user role.
ACADEMIC RECORDS
Quick access to academic information, reducing time spent searching across scattered resources.
Attendance & Grades
Streamlined attendance and grading workflows minimize repetitive tasks while keeping essential actions close to the content.
Role-Based Experience
Personalized dashboards surface the most relevant information and actions for each user role.
ACADEMIC RECORDS
Quick access to academic information, reducing time spent searching across scattered resources.
Attendance & Grades
Streamlined attendance and grading workflows minimize repetitive tasks while keeping essential actions close to the content.
Role-Based Experience
Personalized dashboards surface the most relevant information and actions for each user role.
Centralized ACADEMIC RECORDS
Quick access to academic information, reducing time spent searching across scattered resources.
Attendance & Grades
Streamlined attendance and grading workflows minimize repetitive tasks while keeping essential actions close to the content.
Notifications & calendar
Integrated scheduling and notifications improve visibility of deadlines, events, and academic updates.
User Management
Flexible class management supports both manual creation and CSV import for faster administrative workflows.
Role-Based Experience
Personalized dashboards surface the most relevant information and actions for each user role.
Centralized ACADEMIC RECORDS
Quick access to academic information, reducing time spent searching across scattered resources.
Attendance & Grades
Streamlined attendance and grading workflows minimize repetitive tasks while keeping essential actions close to the content.
Notifications & calendar
Integrated scheduling and notifications improve visibility of deadlines, events, and academic updates.
User Management
Flexible class management supports both manual creation and CSV import for faster administrative workflows.
Role-Based Experience
Personalized dashboards surface the most relevant information and actions for each user role.
Centralized ACADEMIC RECORDS
Quick access to academic information, reducing time spent searching across scattered resources.
Attendance & Grades
Streamlined attendance and grading workflows minimize repetitive tasks while keeping essential actions close to the content.
Notifications & calendar
Integrated scheduling and notifications improve visibility of deadlines, events, and academic updates.
User Management
Flexible class management supports both manual creation and CSV import for faster administrative workflows.
Role-Based Experience
Personalized dashboards surface the most relevant information and actions for each user role.
Centralized ACADEMIC RECORDS
Quick access to academic information, reducing time spent searching across scattered resources.
Attendance & Grades
Streamlined attendance and grading workflows minimize repetitive tasks while keeping essential actions close to the content.
Notifications & calendar
Integrated scheduling and notifications improve visibility of deadlines, events, and academic updates.
User Management
Flexible class management supports both manual creation and CSV import for faster administrative workflows.
Research
To ground the project in real needs, we began by evaluating the LMS currently used by the school to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for simplification. This phase focused on defining clear priorities to shape a functional MVP that would solve the most critical problems first.
Research & Benchmarking
Understand common LMS
patterns and expectations
Heuristics & Usability Testing
Observe and identify usability and
friction points in the current LMS
Survey & Interviews
Validate workflows, pain points,
and unmet needs across user roles
In all methods we identified consistent issues across user types: poor intuitiveness, overly manual processes for staff, confusing navigation, missing reminders, and visual inconsistency leading to frequent user errors.
Based on these insights, we defined the MVP to focus on the highest-priority features while avoiding unnecessary complexity:
Student records and profiles;
Attendance and grading workflows;
Visibility of key information and reminders;
Admin, Instructor, and Student role-based access.
Key Challenge
Users struggle to manage academic information effectively because existing systems are overloaded with unnecessary features. The school needs a streamlined, purpose-built hybrid LMS (combining learning and student management) to prioritize clarity, efficiency, and accurate student records over feature density.
Research
To ground the project in real needs, we began by evaluating the LMS currently used by the school to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for simplification. This phase focused on defining clear priorities to shape a functional MVP that would solve the most critical problems first.
Research & Benchmarking
Understand common LMS
patterns and expectations
Heuristics & Usability Testing
Observe and identify usability and
friction points in the current LMS
Survey & Interviews
Validate workflows, pain points,
and unmet needs across user roles
In all methods we identified consistent issues across user types: poor intuitiveness, overly manual processes for staff, confusing navigation, missing reminders, and visual inconsistency leading to frequent user errors.
Based on these insights, we defined the MVP to focus on the highest-priority features while avoiding unnecessary complexity:
Student records and profiles;
Attendance and grading workflows;
Visibility of key information and reminders;
Admin, Instructor, and Student role-based access.
Key Challenge
Users struggle to manage academic information effectively because existing systems are overloaded with unnecessary features. The school needs a streamlined, purpose-built hybrid LMS (combining learning and student management) to prioritize clarity, efficiency, and accurate student records over feature density.
Learnings
Learnings
Learnings
Solving the right problems
Working within MVP constraints strengthened my approach to prioritization, cross-functional collaboration, and designing around validated user needs.
Positive User Feedback
Usability testing confirmed it’s a clear improvement over the previous system, with workflows optimized for Admins, Instructors, and Students.
Next Steps
If given more time, I would expand the platform with responsive views and conduct additional usability testing to further refine the experience.