Site-Based Learning Walkthrough Guide

An interactive web application that transforms the confusing, multi-week site-based learning process into a clear 8-step walkthrough with checklists, pro tips, and progress tracking.

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What was broken.

If you've ever tried to audit hundreds of courses manually, you know the drill. Open each one, click through every page, check for alt text, verify links, confirm the syllabus is there, make sure the LMS modules are actually working. Multiply that by hundreds of sections every semester.

Most institutions know their courses have compliance issues. The problem isn't awareness, it's bandwidth. Quality assurance teams are small, accreditation timelines are rigid, and by the time you finish reviewing everything by hand, half the courses have already been updated and need re-checking.

The institution I worked with was spending three full weeks every semester on this process. Faculty were frustrated by the back-and-forth, and the QA team was burning out. Something had to change.

Manual Audits Took Weeks

Three full weeks of clicking through every course, every semester. The team could barely keep up.

Inconsistent Standards

Different reviewers applied different criteria. What passed one review might fail the next.

QA Team Burnout

Repetitive, tedious work with no end in sight. The team was losing morale and people were leaving.

Accreditation Pressure

Deadlines don't wait. When accreditors come calling, you need proof that every course meets the standard.

How we solved it.

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Discovery & Requirements Mapping

Spent two weeks with the QA team observing their manual process, documenting every check they performed, and mapping those checks to accreditation standards. We identified 40+ discrete compliance criteria that the scanner would need to verify.

Key insight: 60% of the checks were pattern-based and could be fully automated. The remaining 40% needed AI-assisted review with human confirmation.
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LMS Integration & Data Pipeline

Built API connectors to pull course content directly from the LMS, pages, modules, assignments, media files, and metadata. Designed the pipeline to run incrementally so it only re-scans content that has changed since the last audit.

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NLP-Powered Analysis Engine

Developed natural language processing models to check for things rule-based systems miss: syllabus completeness, learning objective alignment, content quality scoring, and accessibility compliance beyond just alt text and link checks.

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Dashboard & Remediation Workflow

Created a reporting dashboard that gives QA teams an at-a-glance view of compliance status across every course, with drill-down capabilities and automated remediation suggestions that faculty can apply in a few clicks.

The dashboard prioritizes issues by severity, so teams fix the most critical compliance gaps first.

Technologies Used

Python Natural Language Processing LMS REST APIs Compliance AI Models PostgreSQL React Dashboard Celery Task Queue Docker

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What it actually does.

Full Catalog Scanning

Scans every course, module, page, and assignment across your entire LMS. No sampling, no guesswork, 100% coverage.

Accessibility Auditing

Checks for alt text, color contrast, heading structure, link functionality, and WCAG compliance automatically.

Syllabus Completeness

NLP analysis verifies that every syllabus contains required elements: objectives, policies, grading criteria, and institutional disclosures.

Real-Time Dashboard

At-a-glance compliance status for every course, department, and college. Drill down from institution-wide to individual pages.

Accreditation Reports

Auto-generates evidence packages for accreditation reviews, mapping every compliance check to the specific standard it addresses.

Faculty Notifications

Sends targeted, actionable emails to faculty with exactly what needs fixing, along with one-click remediation options where possible.

See it in action.

The numbers speak.

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Faster Audits
From 3 weeks to 2 days
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Course Coverage
Every single course, every semester
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Compliance Checks
Automated per course scan
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Productivity Boost
QA team redeployed to strategic work
We went from dreading accreditation season to feeling genuinely prepared. The scanner catches things we would have missed, and our faculty actually appreciate the specific, actionable feedback instead of vague 'your course needs work' emails.
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Dr. Sarah Martinez Dean of Academic Affairs, Metro Community College

What I learned.

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Automation works best when it makes humans better, not redundant

The biggest wins came from the 40% of checks that still needed a human eye. The scanner surfaces the issues and provides context, but the QA team's expertise is what turns that information into actual quality improvement. Trying to fully automate everything would have produced worse results.

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Faculty adoption depends on tone, not technology

The first version of the notification emails was too clinical and felt punitive. Faculty were ignoring or pushing back. We rewrote everything to be helpful and specific, "Here are 3 things you can fix in 5 minutes", and suddenly remediation rates tripled. The tech didn't change. The communication did.

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Incremental scanning changed the game

The original plan was to run full scans at the start and end of each semester. But switching to incremental, scanning only changed content as it's updated, turned a periodic audit into continuous monitoring. Issues get caught days after they're introduced, not months.

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