Families First Case Study

Co-Parenting
Training Platform
Website header showing a person lifting a child with outstretched arms against a sunset backdrop, with the text 'Pathways for Families Learning resources to help ensure children never come last' and a logo for 'Co-Parenting Experience' from Families First.

Client Overview

Families First is a non-profit that assists over 40,000 families each year with solutions to improve wellbeing of children in jeopardy by empowering families.

We teamed up with Families First to build a learning platform to help families cope better when social issues arise, becoming more self-sufficient as a result.

Screenshot collage of an online course platform showing 'Co-Parenting Experience' course pages, including course details, video thumbnail of a woman, and lesson quiz topics on co-parenting and relationship skills.

Project Goal

The purpose of this project was for Families first to become a standard training platform for non-profits in English-speaking regions. Few of the high-level goals included:

Every employee gets the training that they require and gets to work at their own pace

Enticing and encouraging environment that makes the users motivated

Platform that encourages users to take more courses than the mandatory ones

Services Provided

Open edX Learning,
Platform Installation
UX Logo
Advanced Software,
Customization
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Hosting,
UI/UX Design
Project Management,
Technical Support

Approach

Research
We started this project by getting an in-depth understanding of the users, learning about the kind of courses provided on the platform, and the pain points through thorough UX research.

Design
We identified the UX research insights and project goals in order to innovate, generate ideas and produce designs while working on the user experience.

Evaluation
After capturing the user feedback and working on the design, we evaluated our progress and the changes to measure the delivered UX designs.

Tools

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Sketch
AWS logo
AWS
HTML logo
HTML
CSS logo
CSS

Problems

COURSE LIMITATION

Lack of courses to teach effective parenting during the transitions of divorce or parental separation.

PLATFORM INCOMPATIBILITY

Default eCommerce gateway incompatible with Paypal.

CERTIFICATE GENERATION

Manual certificate generation upon course completion.

CONTENT LIMITATION

Lack of expertise in creation of multimedia learning content.

Solution

Learning Platform

A comprehensive learning platform for Families First to build upon and instructional design and video production services for the content offered.

Webpage from Families First online course titled P4L-001 Co-Parenting Experience, showing lesson navigation on the left including Lesson 4 New relationships with subtopics, and a video thumbnail of a woman with blonde hair in the center, with accompanying lesson text explaining personal identity changes after a relationship ends and advice for moving into new relationships and co-parenting.

Certificate

Automated the process of generating learners’ certificates, which was done manually previously. Upon successful completion, user would get certificate in a PDF form.

Certificate from Families First awarded to Jean Z. Rodriguez, issued April 20th, 2015, confirming successful completion of the online Co-Parenting/Divorce Education course titled 'Course COPEX001: Emotional Response to Separation.' Signed by Tonika D. Evans, MS, LAPC, Program Manager of Effective & Nurturing Parenting/TransParenting at Families First. Includes spaces for County and Case Number if applicable, with authenticity verification link noted.

Payment Process

Consolidated user’s payment process through Paypal integration.

Screenshot of an online shopping cart for 'Pathways for Families' showing registration for a $50 Co-Parenting Experience course. On the right, a PayPal guest checkout payment form requests country, card number, expiration date, CSC, name, and billing address details.

Results

After the solutions were implemented, we eliminated the need for Families First’s operation teams to manually generate learner certificates and consolidate users’ payment processes through Paypal integration.

After successful project completion and product development, we got the opportunity to work with Families First again in order to re-design their corporate learning offerings.

“I’ve greatly enjoyed my experience working with Perpetual. You have a great system in place for delivering an online and mobile learning experience.​”

Boyce Whitesides

Senior Strategy Director of Families First