Case Study: Beluga Bean achieves scalable, community-driven online learning with SmartUp

Beluga Bean - Customer Case Study

Beluga Bean Academy wanted to take its in‑person business and life‑skills courses to a wider audience while preserving the interactive, classroom feel—but faced high production costs and complex, expensive platforms that threatened that personal vibe. After evaluating options, Beluga Bean partnered with SmartUp and its learning experience platform to explore a viable way to scale online without losing learner interaction.

SmartUp implemented its learning experience platform so Beluga Bean could easily upload structured content, create discoverable topic groups, and foster two‑way interaction with polls, comments, chat and quizzes, with plans to open community content creation and use analytics as the community matures. The collaboration accelerated development and community building, and benefits align with SmartUp’s proven footprint (over 200,000 users worldwide and an average completion rate of 88%), while Beluga Bean reports strong service, values alignment and growing learner engagement.

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Renee

Beluga Bean Academy