Improving course search and discoverability

Context

A state launches courses, and informs teachers about it through formal channels like circulars or informal channels like whatsapp. While many of them are opting for QR codes as a quick entry point to a particular course, the last mile reach of the QR codes are in question - as it is not art of a textbook or any other material in a teachers day to day use.

Hence, there is a need to make courses more discoverable, for two kinds of users:

• Those who know their state has launched a course that they need to take, but they don't have access to a QR code
• Those who have discovered the courses tab or have taken a course before, and would like to explore courses that are relevant to them 

High level scope

Consumption changes

• Bringing in the ability for a user to input their class and subject on the courses landing page, so that they can find courses most relevant to them.
• Categorisation of courses by topic (core subject (like Maths), classroom management, pedagogy etc.) so that the courses are further organised. 
• Based on the user's profile (Board or location), presenting a few important courses to the user (for eg, the NAS course for AP users during the time that the state has launched the course)
• Having a mechanism for signed in users to quickly resume the courses that they have already enroled in.
• Redesigning the course cards to carry key pieces of information - Title, Organisation, No. of hours taken to complete (roughly)
• These changes will have to be done across both portal and mobile app. 

Creation changes to support this consumption experience

• Ensuring topic and audience (in terms of subject teachers) is mandatory whenever any course is created.
• Ensuring the topic masterdata contains all relevant subject names, and that a user has to choose a specific subject, not a high level tag like "sciences" or "language"

High Level Wireframes: https://whimsical.com/S7vdTuLSYBQmMs1nwUd5BB#7YNFXnKbYzDnPjZF1tvaT

Disclaimer: These screens will need to be tested on the field.