Case Study: GROW Academy achieves a rapid launch of an engaging social learning site with WooCommerce

GROW Academy - Customer Case Study

The Grow Academy is a bootcamp-style training program set up to teach school leavers web and social media skills and place them into internships. The challenge was to design the academy’s branding and deliver an engaging, easy-to-use website quickly that would work for users with very limited web experience and encourage daily interaction and learning.

We created the brand and launched a BuddyPress-powered WordPress site using the Canvas theme and a BuddyPress child theme, enabling activity streams, groups, forums, private messaging and extended profiles, plus customized styling and content modules for the workshop material. The site was live in hours, recruits registered and actively posted updates, joined groups and published work, analytics showed steady use across the five-day bootcamp, and the program successfully equipped participants with skills while internship placements were arranged.

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