Services · Mobile app development · Online learning apps
Codeeo offers e-learning app development Edinburgh course providers can use to sell, deliver and certify training from one place. We build the learner app, the course authoring and admin tools, and the reporting your clients or regulators ask for. Typical buyers are compliance trainers serving the city's banks, insurers and fund managers, professional bodies running continuing development, hospitality academies preparing seasonal staff, and teams turning a classroom course into a paid online catalogue.
An online course lives or dies on completion. Learners who can find the next lesson in two taps, watch it on a slow train from Fife and get a certificate they can prove is genuine tend to finish. That is the standard we design to, and we work with Edinburgh clients remotely by video call.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What we build
Edinburgh course providers rarely sell to one kind of learner. A single training firm might run anti money laundering refreshers for an investment house on George Street, a food hygiene module for a summer bar crew on the Royal Mile and a paid certificate for career changers studying at night. Each audience needs different pacing, evidence and payment. So the feature set below is a menu, not a fixed package. During discovery we pick the parts that match your learners, connect them to the systems you already run, such as an HR platform, a CRM or a payment provider, and leave the rest for later releases once real usage tells us what matters.
Online course app development Edinburgh firms commission tends to fail in one of two ways: the catalogue looks polished but the reporting is thin, or the records are thorough but learners abandon the app after the first lesson. We balance both by testing the learner side and the buyer side together from the first prototype.
Financial firms in Edinburgh need proof that each employee completed and understood mandatory training. The app records who opened each module, quiz scores, the policy version they confirmed and the date, then exports that history in a format your compliance team can hand to auditors.
Training evidence is ready when an internal or external review asks for it.
Every August, venues, bars and box offices across the city take on temporary staff in a hurry. We build short onboarding tracks that a new starter can finish on their own phone before the first shift, covering safety, licensing basics and house rules, with managers seeing who is ready to work.
Temporary teams arrive trained instead of learning on a busy night.
Learners filter courses by subject, length, format and level. Where a course carries SCQF credit or an awarding body's mark, the catalogue says so plainly next to the price button, so a buyer knows what the certificate will be worth before they enrol.
Fewer pre-sale emails asking what a course actually leads to.
Lessons stream at a quality matched to the connection and can be saved for offline viewing, which suits commuters on the Borders Railway or the tram out to the airport. Captions, transcripts and adjustable speed are standard on every video, not an extra.
Learners keep studying in places where streaming usually stalls.
Tutors write questions once and the app draws a different set for each attempt, with time limits, pass marks and retake rules you control. Written answers and file uploads go to a marking queue with rubrics, so several assessors grade to the same standard.
Assessments stay fair and harder to share between learners.
Each certificate carries a unique code and a public verification page, so an employer in Leith or abroad can confirm it in seconds. Expiry dates trigger reminders before a qualification lapses, which matters for refreshers that must be repeated every year.
Certificates hold their value because anyone can check them.
Edinburgh programmes often enrol learners in other countries. Cohort spaces show deadlines in each learner's local time, host recorded seminars and threaded discussion, and let tutors post announcements that reach everyone by push notification and email.
Remote learners stay in step with their cohort wherever they live.
Corporate buyers purchase a block of seats, invite staff by email or a single sign-on link, and see progress by team. Managers chase overdue modules from their own dashboard instead of asking your support desk for spreadsheets.
Business clients renew because they can see what they paid for.
We build to WCAG 2.2 AA: screen reader labels, keyboard and switch access, readable contrast, scalable text and no content locked inside images. Under the Equality Act a training provider is expected to make reasonable adjustments, and an accessible app makes most of them unnecessary.
Every learner can complete the course on the same app.
Who this suits
The city's training market is shaped by finance, tourism, its universities and a large public sector. Each produces a different kind of course business, with its own buyers and its own idea of proof. These are the four situations we plan for most often. If yours sits between two of them, discovery is where we work out the mix rather than forcing you into one box.
Some clients arrive with an off-the-shelf learning platform they have outgrown. For them, learning management app development Edinburgh style usually means keeping the course content and learner history, replacing the clumsy parts, and adding the mobile experience the old system never had.
You deliver mandatory modules to banks, insurers, pension providers or asset managers, perhaps from an office in the Exchange district. Your clients care less about animation and more about records: who completed what, which policy version they saw and whether they passed. We build the reporting first, with per-client branding and data separation so one firm never sees another's staff.
Data separation between corporate clients is planned from the first sprint.
You train people for hotels, restaurants and festival venues, where staff turnover is high and many learners have never used a learning platform. We keep the interface simple enough to finish on a phone in a staff room, with short lessons, clear progress and badges a supervisor can check before rostering someone. Many festival workers come from overseas for a few weeks, so we keep the language plain, allow sign-up without a UK phone number and archive accounts automatically once the season ends.
Peak hiring periods set the release date, not the other way round.
Your members log continuing development hours, attend webinars and buy short courses. We connect the app to your membership database so access follows membership status, CPD records update automatically and members can download a year's activity when renewing. Webinar recordings join the catalogue the next day with chapters and a short quiz, so members who missed the live session still earn the credit.
You already teach something people pay for, from data skills to whisky tasting, and want to sell it online without renting space on a marketplace that owns your learners. We build a branded storefront and app with your catalogue, payments, video hosting and email list kept under your control.
You keep the learner relationship and the mailing list.
Ways to work with us
A fixed scope first release suits most course providers: one catalogue, one payment route and the reporting your biggest client needs. After launch, a monthly retainer covers new courses, content imports, app store updates and improvements based on learner data. Organisations planning a larger platform, for example a professional body moving every member service into one app, can work with a dedicated team. Discovery, design reviews and sprint demos for Edinburgh clients all run by video call, and your contract can name Scots law if your legal team prefers it.
For online learning app development Edinburgh universities or public bodies buy through procurement frameworks, we can respond to tender questions on accessibility, data handling and security, and we document the build so your own IT team can review it before sign-off.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
We usually build the learner app cross platform for iOS and Android, with a web version for desktop study, and support SCORM and xAPI so existing course packages and other learning systems keep working. Video is served through a content delivery network with adaptive streaming, and the admin side runs in the browser so course staff never need to install anything.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Every stage runs by video call and shared workspaces.
Discovery sessions, prototype reviews and fortnightly demos happen on video, and you get access to a test build on your own phone throughout. Codeeo has 80+ people across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and 200+ delivered projects in the UAE and the US. We do not have an office in Scotland, so we do not promise site visits. What we do commit to is a named point of contact, written decisions after each call and a shared board showing what is being built.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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