Learning platform development

A learning platform built for how you actually teach.

Homeschools, co-ops, and training organizations do not run like universities, and the software built for universities shows it. We build learning platforms around real families, real cohorts, and the records you have to be able to produce later.

QikLPS, our own learning platform, launches in 2027 with Apex HomeSchool as a founding partner.

Diagram of one household account holding three students in different grades, each feeding attendance, progress and grades, and a transcript
When a custom platform is the right call

You are probably here because one of these is true.

Enrollment runs on forms and email

Every term someone rebuilds a spreadsheet from a form, chases payments, and manually assigns families to classes.

The software assumes one student per login

Families have three or four students. Most platforms make a parent manage four accounts and four passwords.

Records have to survive years

Attendance, hours, and transcripts may be needed for a college application or a state requirement long after the term ended.

You are stitching four tools together

A course tool, a payment tool, a scheduling tool, and a messaging tool, none of which agree on who is enrolled.

Volunteers and paid staff mix

Co-ops run on parent teachers and rotating helpers. Permissions have to reflect that without becoming a full time job.

You want to sell what you built

Your curriculum or program works, and other groups are asking for it. That needs a platform, not a folder of documents.

What we build into it

Everything a term needs.

Courses and lessons

Units, lessons, assignments, files, and video, released on a schedule or unlocked as students progress.

Household accounts

One parent login managing several students, each with their own record, schedule, and progress.

Enrollment and payment

Open a term, take registrations, cap class sizes, handle waitlists, and collect tuition or per class fees through Stripe.

Attendance and hours

Session attendance and instructional hours logged in a form you can actually produce when someone asks for it.

Grades and transcripts

Assignment grading, progress reports parents can read, and transcripts that hold up for college applications.

Live and virtual classes

Scheduled sessions with Zoom or Google Meet attached, attendance captured, and recordings posted back to the lesson.

Communication

Announcements, class messages, and reminders by email and text, so nothing depends on a group chat nobody reads.

Roles and permissions

Administrators, paid instructors, parent teachers, and volunteers each seeing exactly what they should and nothing more.

Mobile access

Parents check the week from a phone. With NativePHP the platform ships as a native app with push notifications.

QikLPS is our own learning platform.

Built for homeschools, co-ops, and educators, with Apex HomeSchool as a founding partner. If your needs line up with what it does, starting there is faster and cheaper than a custom build. If they do not, we build custom on the same foundation.

Founding partner

Apex HomeSchool launches on QikLPS in 2027.

Built on Laravel

The same foundation as QikCMS, with 250+ sites in production.

Early access

Early groups help shape the roadmap before general release.

Custom on top

Anything the platform does not cover, we build for you.

How the build runs

Built around your calendar, not ours.

Schools have hard dates. We plan backwards from the term you want to open on, so nothing lands mid semester.

Phase 01: Map

We walk a full term with you: registration, scheduling, teaching, grading, and reporting. Scope, budget, and timeline before code.

Phase 02: Prototype

Clickable parent, student, and instructor views. Parents and teachers react to real screens before anything is built.

Phase 03: Build

Short cycles on a staging site you can log into. Existing student records and course content migrate alongside.

Phase 04: Launch a term

We go live between terms, train administrators and instructors, and stay on through the first registration period.

Questions

Learning platforms, answered.

They are built for a school with one student per account, or for selling a course to strangers. Neither handles a family with four students, a co-op with parent teachers, or the attendance and transcript records a homeschool has to keep. That mismatch is why so many groups end up running four tools at once.

Yes, and we treat that as the default rather than a workaround. The household is the account, each student has their own record, schedule, and progress, and the parent sees all of them in one place.

Yes. Attendance, instructional hours, grades, and transcripts are first class records rather than exports you assemble later. Requirements vary by state, so we build the formats you specifically need.

Student records sit in your own database with role based access, so instructors see their classes and administrators see the program. We are not a lawyer and cannot advise on your regulatory obligations, but we build to the access rules and retention policy you specify.

Yes. Tuition, per class fees, payment plans, family discounts, and scholarships all run through Stripe into your own account, tied to enrollment so nobody attends unpaid by accident.

Depends on your timeline and how unusual your program is. QikLPS launches in 2027 and will cover most homeschool and co-op needs at a lower cost. If you need something sooner or your model is genuinely different, a custom build on the same foundation is the better route. Tell us your situation and we will give you a straight recommendation.

Start a conversation

Tell us how your program runs.

Describe your families, your term structure, and what registration week looks like. We will tell you honestly whether QikLPS will cover it or a custom build makes more sense.
  • Response time - one business day, from a developer
  • First call - a working session, not a sales pitch
  • Timing - we plan backwards from your term start
Related services

Often built alongside a learning platform.

CMS and web platforms

A public site with events, memberships, and enrollment sharing the same database.

Custom CRM

Track interested families from first inquiry through enrollment and renewal.

Mobile app development

Put the week's schedule and assignments on a parent's phone with push notifications.