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Bartleby Platform Enhancement

Enhanced Bartleby's leading student success platform with live tutoring, interactive book reading, Q&A system, and streamlined onboarding, enabling seamless educational experiences for millions of students through scalable architecture.

Project Overview

Enhanced Bartleby's leading student success platform with live tutoring, interactive book reading, Q&A system, and streamlined onboarding, enabling seamless educational experiences for millions of students through scalable architecture.

Technologies Used

Next.jsTypeScriptNode.jsExpress.jsMySQLMicroservicesJestGitHubPostmanDatadogReactWebRTCJIRA

Key Results Achieved

The project delivered exceptional results across multiple metrics, demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach and the value delivered to the client.

Faster
Feature Rollouts
Faster feature rollouts without disrupting existing services for millions of users
Improved
Student Engagement
Enhanced engagement with real-time tutoring and interactive reading tools
Higher
Platform Reliability
Improved reliability ensuring smooth performance during peak traffic periods
Reduced Churn
Onboarding Optimization
Optimized onboarding process resulting in reduced churn during sign-up
Future-Ready
Architecture Readiness
Scalable architecture capable of supporting continued growth and acquisitions
Leading
Industry Recognition
Positioned Bartleby as one of the most recognized names in the EdTech industry

Challenges Faced

Every successful project comes with its unique set of challenges. Here are the key obstacles we identified and overcame during this project.

1.Real-time Tutoring: Integrating live video calling system for one-on-one tutoring that could scale globally with low latency and high reliability
2.Digital Content Experience: Delivering smooth interactive book reading experience for digital textbooks without compromising performance
3.Scalability of Q&A Module: System had to handle millions of step-by-step solutions and student-submitted questions requiring improved search, navigation, and load performance
4.Student Onboarding: Onboarding process needed simplification and personalization to help students quickly identify whether Bartleby Learn, Write, or Research best suited their needs
5.Security & Compliance: With sensitive student data at stake, robust security measures, monitoring, and compliance enforcement had to be built into every feature

Solutions Implemented

Our team developed innovative solutions to address each challenge, ensuring the project's success and exceeding client expectations.

1.Live Tutoring Module: Integrated WebRTC-based video calling for seamless tutor-student interactions with low latency, reliable connections, and modular Next.js components for easy maintenance
2.Interactive Book Reading: Developed React-based reader interface with responsive page rendering, search, bookmarking, highlights, lazy loading, and optimized state management for cross-device compatibility
3.Enhanced Q&A System: Improved question submission flow and answer discovery with optimized APIs and caching, built faster search experience for millions of solutions, and designed "Ask an Expert" feature linking queries to tutors
4.Streamlined Onboarding Flow: Created guided, mobile-friendly onboarding process mapping students to right products, reduced friction points through step minimization and A/B testing, and improved UI consistency across ecosystem
5.Architecture & Security: Defined frontend technical architecture for scalable development, coordinated with backend teams for smooth integration, enforced API-level security and compliance checks, and integrated Datadog monitoring

Project Impact & Success Metrics

The project's success is measured not just by technical achievements, but by the real-world impact it created for our client and their users.

Key Achievements:

  • Faster - Faster feature rollouts without disrupting existing services for millions of users
  • Improved - Enhanced engagement with real-time tutoring and interactive reading tools
  • Higher - Improved reliability ensuring smooth performance during peak traffic periods
  • Reduced Churn - Optimized onboarding process resulting in reduced churn during sign-up

Conclusion

Legresca's role in enhancing Bartleby's learning platform demonstrates our expertise in scalable product engineering and seamless integration of new modules into existing ecosystems. By focusing on student engagement, real-time collaboration, and reliable content delivery, we helped Bartleby move closer to its mission: supporting every student's academic success.

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Bartleby is a leading student success platform providing flexible, on-demand academic support including Bartleby Learn, Write, and Research. With millions of users, they needed new feature development and stability improvements to meet rapidly growing demand and enhance the learning experience.

The main challenges included integrating real-time tutoring with global scalability, delivering smooth interactive book reading without performance compromise, handling millions of Q&A solutions with improved search and navigation, simplifying student onboarding for product selection, and ensuring robust security and compliance for sensitive student data.

We integrated WebRTC-based video calling to enable seamless tutor-student interactions, optimized for low latency and reliable connections ensuring uninterrupted learning experiences, and built modular Next.js components for easy maintenance and reusability across the platform.

Bartleby achieved faster feature rollouts without disrupting existing services, improved student engagement with real-time tutoring and interactive reading tools, higher platform reliability during peak traffic, optimized onboarding reducing churn during sign-up, and future-ready architecture supporting continued growth and acquisitions.

We developed React-based reader interface with responsive design and cross-device compatibility, enhanced Q&A system with optimized APIs and caching for millions of solutions, created streamlined onboarding flow with A/B testing, and built scalable architecture with microservices and comprehensive monitoring for millions of users.

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