Services · Website development · Online learning websites
Codeeo offers e-learning website development Edinburgh universities, professional bodies, training firms and edtech start-ups can rely on to present their courses clearly to Scottish and international audiences. We design and build the public website around your learning platform: programme pages that explain SCQF levels and credit, enquiry and application routes, tutor and research profiles, a content system your staff run themselves, and the search, accessibility and data protection groundwork a Scottish education brand needs.
Scotland runs its own education system and its own legal system. A site written as if every learner were in England confuses people about levels, qualifications and terms. We start from how your Scottish learners actually describe what they want to study.
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What we build
Edinburgh has an unusually dense mix of learning organisations: several universities with large online distance programmes, professional institutes that run continuing development for accountants, lawyers and actuaries, creative schools that come alive around the August festivals, and a growing group of edtech companies. Their websites have one thing in common. They carry a lot of detailed information that learners must understand before applying, and that information changes every intake. So we treat the site as a structured publishing system first and a brochure second. Programme records hold level, credit, mode, duration, entry requirements and intake dates in fields, not paragraphs, which keeps every listing accurate and lets the same data feed search filters, comparison tables and your CRM. Around that core we add the routes, content and integrations each type of provider needs, picking from the list below. Not every provider needs every item, and discovery is where we decide which ones earn their place in your build.
Each programme page shows its Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework level and credit points in a consistent panel, alongside mode, duration and entry requirements. Learners comparing a short award with a postgraduate certificate can see the difference at a glance, and editors cannot publish a page with the level missing.
Prospective learners understand what a qualification is worth before enquiring.
Pages built for people studying from overseas: time commitment, how online seminars work, what support looks like, and how assessment is run remotely. Country specific entry guidance can be added as structured content instead of buried in PDFs, which helps both international search and the admissions team answering emails.
Fewer repetitive questions reach admissions.
Forms that send a question about one programme to the right person, with programme code, start date and learner location attached. Where formal applications run through a student records system, the site hands over cleanly to it, rather than collecting the same details twice.
Each enquiry reaches someone who can answer it.
Event pages for online open days, webinars and short taster lessons, with registration that feeds your CRM and reminder emails sent from your own platform. Recordings can be published afterwards as gated or public content, so a session run for applicants in Edinburgh keeps working for applicants in Lagos, Delhi or Toronto who could not attend live.
Each event keeps recruiting long after it ends.
For institutes and firms training professionals, a CPD catalogue filtered by topic, hours and format, with event style pages for live webinars and on demand modules. Members can see which sessions count towards their requirements, written in your own body's terms.
Professionals find relevant CPD without phoning your office.
Some Scottish providers publish Gaelic pages, and many recruit learners who read better in another language. We build language versions as separate, translatable content with correct hreflang and metadata, so each one can be indexed and maintained properly.
Language pages that stay current, not abandoned copies.
Profiles for tutors and academic staff, linked to the programmes they teach and the articles they write. These pages give learners a reason to trust the course and give search engines clear signals about expertise behind the content.
Expertise is visible on every programme page.
Pages built and tested against WCAG 2.2 AA, with captioned video, logical headings, accessible forms and a published accessibility statement. Public sector bodies in Scotland have specific accessibility regulations to follow, and private providers still owe disabled learners reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act.
Disabled learners can use every page and form.
Campus and festival photography, lecture clips and virtual open day video are lazy loaded, compressed and served from a CDN. We measure Core Web Vitals on real devices and fix layout shifts before launch, so programme pages stay quick on a mobile in a café on the Royal Mile.
Rich media without slow pages.
A PECR compliant cookie banner, privacy notices tied to each form, and enquiry data stored in your CRM rather than website inboxes. Access is limited by role and retention periods are configured, so the site does not quietly keep personal data longer than your policy allows.
Data protection that holds up when someone asks.
Good fits
We work best with teams who have a clear teaching offer and a website that no longer explains it well. Sometimes that is a university department with a programme portfolio that outgrew a central template. Sometimes it is a training firm in the West End or Leith that needs to look as credible online as it does in the room. As an e-learning web development company Edinburgh clients can work with entirely by video call, we adapt the plan to the approvals and systems already in place.
University and college teams running online postgraduate and short programmes who need a dedicated recruitment site or section. We work inside institutional brand rules, connect to admissions systems where allowed, and give the programme team direct control of intakes and content. The aim is a site that answers distance learners' practical questions honestly, from weekly hours to how exams work remotely.
Recruitment sites within institutional rules.
Edinburgh hosts many professional bodies and the firms that train their members. These sites need a CPD catalogue, event pages, member routes and clear guidance on requirements. We structure the content so a change to a requirement updates every page that mentions it, which matters when members rely on the site to stay compliant with their own rules.
CPD catalogues and member routes.
Drama, writing, music and comedy schools whose demand peaks around August, when the city's festivals draw performers and audiences from everywhere. The site has to handle a spike of visitors, show short courses and workshops clearly, and keep running online classes visible for the rest of the year, all managed by a small team. We give that team a simple way to switch the homepage between festival mode and term mode without touching code.
Seasonal peaks, year round content.
Young companies building learning products who need a product site that speaks to schools, universities or employers. We build feature and use case pages, a data protection page aimed at procurement, and a demo request route. Custom e-learning website development Edinburgh founders can extend later, without rebuilding when the product changes.
Product sites ready to grow.
How we work with you
Codeeo is a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, with 200+ projects delivered across the UAE and the US and a 4.7 rating from 23 Google reviews. We have no Edinburgh office. Instead, every workshop, review and training session runs by video call, and each one ends with written notes so approvers who missed the meeting can catch up. Universities and institutes often need several sign offs; we plan review rounds around your committee calendar rather than forcing a fixed rhythm. Where a project spans the summer, we plan around the festival period and the start of the academic year, because those are the weeks when your staff have least time to review anything and learners are most likely to be visiting the site.
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
The CMS and framework follow your editing team and integrations: WordPress for content heavy sites, a headless CMS with Next.js where performance and integrations matter more. Hosting sits in your account, with UK data regions available.
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Some parts are, mainly terms, contracts and how learner age is treated.
Contracts with Scottish learners are governed by Scots law, so terms and conditions drafted only for England and Wales may need review by a Scottish solicitor. Consumer protections such as cancellation rights under the Consumer Contracts Regulations apply across the UK. For data protection, the Data Protection Act 2018 presumes that a child in Scotland aged 12 or over can usually exercise their own rights, which affects how forms and notices for younger learners are written. We build the structures; your advisers approve the wording.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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