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Sasalearn
Project Description
Sasalearn is the digital skills academy under the Elona Group ecosystem, built to help Kenyan creators, students, and aspiring tech workers move from curious learner to paid practitioner. The platform runs structured bootcamps and shorter masterclasses across graphic design, web design and development, and other in-demand digital skills, with content delivered live, recorded, and stored in a full learning management system. We designed and built the Sasalearn platform end-to-end: course discovery and enrolment on the front end, a working LMS with video lessons, progress tracking, and student dashboards on the back end. The whole platform is built around one belief: digital skills should be teachable in a way that actually puts money in the student's pocket within weeks, not years.
The challenge
Online learning platforms in Kenya have a credibility problem. Most are either generic Udemy-style course dumps with no accountability, or they're built around motivational content that never translates into actual skill. Sasalearn needed something different: a platform that could handle structured cohort-based bootcamps (with start dates, mentorship, and accountability) alongside one-off paid masterclasses, while also serving as a recorded content library for students who couldn't attend live. The technical brief was equally serious. The platform needed to handle course discovery, paid enrolments, M-Pesa and card payments, video lesson hosting, student progress tracking, certificates, and admin tools to manage cohorts. All without becoming a sluggish, bloated system that students would abandon after the first lesson.
Our solution
We built Sasalearn on a Laravel-based LMS foundation, customised to match the academy's cohort-first model. The front end leads with course discovery: clean course detail pages with curriculum breakdowns, instructor info, pricing in KES, and direct enrolment flows. Each course supports both live cohort bootcamps (with structured weeks, assignments, and mentorship) and standalone masterclasses (like the April Graphic Design Masterclass) priced separately. The LMS handles video lesson delivery with progress tracking, so students know exactly where they left off, and admins can see who's actually completing the work. Payments are integrated for Kenyan reality: M-Pesa first, card as backup. The student dashboard surfaces enrolled courses, completion progress, and certificates, while the admin side gives Joan and the Sasalearn team the tools to manage cohorts, upload recordings, and message students without needing a developer in the loop. Critically, the platform is built to scale: as Sasalearn adds more courses, more cohorts, and more mentors, the infrastructure handles it without breaking.
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