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Course Publishing Platforms

Content authoring, delivery, and progress tracking in one platform — authors publish once across web and mobile, and learner data stops living in a separate spreadsheet.

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Course Publishing Platforms
One
editor, web & mobile delivery
Unified
progress & completion data
WCAG
2.2 AA accessible
Self-serve
publishing for authors

What does a real course publishing platform need to do?

Most course creators start with a video host for content and a spreadsheet for who's actually completing it — a combination that works until you need to answer a simple question like "which cohort is falling behind" and the answer is scattered across three tools that don't talk to each other.

Course publishing platforms put authoring, delivery, and progress tracking in one place. Authors build once in a structured editor and publish across web and mobile, while completion, assessment, and engagement data stay in one system instead of being reconstructed by hand every time someone asks.

What’s included

What the platform covers

01

Structured content authoring

A single editor for lessons, video, quizzes, and assessments — authors build once rather than maintaining separate web and mobile versions.

02

Cross-platform delivery

Content publishes to web and mobile from the same source, so an update reaches every learner without a separate mobile release process.

03

Progress & completion tracking

Learner progress, quiz results, and completion status live in one place, queryable by cohort instead of reconstructed from a spreadsheet.

04

Assessment & certification

Quizzes, assignments, and certificates of completion built into the flow, not bolted on via a third-party form tool.

05

Payments & access control

Course access tied to purchase, subscription, or enrollment status, with the payment flow built into the platform rather than a separate checkout.

06

Author self-service

Course creators publish and update content themselves through the platform, without filing a ticket for every change.

How the build runs

01

Map the content and cohort model

We look at how courses, cohorts, and access levels actually work for your business — subscription, one-time purchase, or institutional licensing.

02

Build the authoring & delivery core

The structured editor and cross-platform delivery pipeline are built first, since every other feature depends on that content model.

03

Add progress, assessment & payments

Tracking, quizzes, certificates, and the payment/access flow are layered on top of the working authoring and delivery core.

04

Migrate existing content & launch

Existing courses are migrated into the new structure rather than left running on the old tool indefinitely, with a clear cutover date.

Course Publishing Platforms FAQ

Yes — course creators build and update content themselves through the platform's editor, which is the point of self-service publishing.

Content is authored once and delivered to web and mobile from the same source, so an update reaches every learner without a separate mobile release.

Progress, quiz results, and completion status live in one system, queryable by cohort — not reconstructed by hand from a video host's basic analytics and a spreadsheet.

Yes — access control ties to purchase, subscription, or institutional licensing, with the payment flow built into the platform.

Built to WCAG 2.2 AA as we go — keyboard navigation, captions, and screen-reader labelling are part of the build, not a remediation project after launch.

Fixed-bid builds start around $3k, retainers from $6k/month, and staff augmentation from $70/hour — content volume and payment/access complexity move the figure, confirmed in writing before work begins.

Tech stack

The tools we build with

One content model driving both web and mobile delivery, so an update is one publish, not two releases.

Platform

Next.jsReactTypeScript

Backend & data

Node.jsPostgreSQLRedis

Content & media

AWSCloudflareGraphQL

Payments

StripeGitHub ActionsSentry
Our work

Related work

All work

Content on a video host, progress in a spreadsheet?

Tell us how your courses, cohorts, and pricing actually work. We'll scope a platform authors can run themselves.

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