Challenge

The client is a Swedish company that launched an e-learning platform dedicated to European football. The platform is intended for everyone involved with this sport: players, coaches, clubs, directors. The main goal of the platform is to promote educational content in the sphere of football through mutual collaboration and contribution of coaches to the educational process.

Solution

Gameinsight is a comprehensive e-learning platform that offers an array of educational materials and useful features. The platform has two separate interfaces: for coaches and for football players. Coaches can create and manage educational materials while players get full access to them.

The platform includes such valuable features as session planners, exercise planners, squad management worksheets, training and periodization scheduler, scouting worksheets, downloadable player, coach resumes and recruitment planners.

As well, the platform offers an option to create game schemes to visualize the intended game strategy. The game schemes are written in Paper.js so there are multiple ways to draw them. Schemes can later be exported to PDF for further printout.

The team used REST.API for guiding the design and developing the architecture. As well, SoftTeco added several new features to the platform, including the file control system for file management, an in-app chat, and export of files to the PDF format.

How It Works

The first thing that SoftTeco’s team did when starting work on the project was researching available custom design options and selecting the programming resources suitable for the client's needs. We used OpenOlat as a base for administration processes (tests, courses integrations, user interactions) and selected the most suitable database structure. During the development process, our team fully adopted the selected solution to Google Cloud Platform.

For efficient platform management, the team created a file control system from scratch. The system contains the main folders required by the users: documents, videos, pictures, exercises and sessions. The file control system was later connected with Google Cloud Storage for easier use.

Results

SoftTeco successfully updated and redesigned the digital platform aimed at the worldwide football community in full correspondence with the client’s requirements. Our team continues to support the platform and will gladly assist the client in the expansion of its functionality in the future.