- Client
- UNC Chapel Hill
- Role
- Full-Stack Development & UX
- Timeline
- Exam build
- Year
- 2023
- Category
- E-Learning
Overview
UNC Chapel Hill’s Road Safety Academy is the training and education arm of the UNC Highway Safety Research Center. Road safety engineers take a certification test there to show they know the work and can be certified. We built that test, plus the supporting databases and the features around it. It runs on the academy’s Moodle site at roadsafetyacademy.org.
Why
Road safety engineers need a way to prove they know the work before they are certified. UNC Chapel Hill’s Road Safety Academy, the training arm of the UNC Highway Safety Research Center, gives them a certification test to take.
That is relevant to any organisation that certifies professionals: the test is the credential, so it has to be built properly and backed by real data.
The challenge
Road safety engineers have to show they know the work before they can be certified. The Road Safety Academy needed that certification test built, with the data and features behind it.
What made it hard
- Certification has to rest on a real test, not a reading list.
- The exam needed data behind it, not a one-off form.
- It had to run inside the academy’s existing Moodle site.
Approach
We built the certification exam and the databases and features it depends on, delivered through the academy’s Moodle site so engineers take it where the academy already runs its courses.
Process
- Exam: The certification test engineers take to prove they know the work.
- Data: Supporting databases behind the exam.
- Delivery: Features around the test, live on the academy’s Moodle site.
What we built
- Certification exam: The test road safety engineers take on the way to certification.
- Supporting databases: The data the exam and its features run on.
- Features around the test: What the academy needs to run the exam, beyond the questions themselves.
How it was built
We built the certification exam, the supporting databases, and the features around it. Engineers take it on the academy’s Moodle site at roadsafetyacademy.org, alongside the academy’s other courses.
Stack
- Moodle: Academy learning site at roadsafetyacademy.org
- Exam + databases: Certification test and its data
Outcomes
- Exam: Engineer certification test
- Data: Supporting databases
- Moodle: Live at roadsafetyacademy.org
- UNC: Highway Safety Research Center
Wins
- Built the certification test road safety engineers take to get certified.
- Supporting databases behind the exam.
- Features around the test, live on the academy’s Moodle site.
Hard parts
- A test that certifies: The exam is what stands between an engineer and certification, so it has to hold up.
- Inside Moodle: The exam had to run within the academy’s existing Moodle site rather than a separate tool.
- More than questions: The test needed supporting databases and features around it, which we built alongside the exam itself.
Services
- Certification Exam
- Supporting Databases
- Exam Features
- Moodle Delivery