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Education app development in New York is what we do for colleges across the five boroughs, licensed private career schools, ESL schools, bootcamps and continuing professional education providers. Codeeo builds the learner app, the faculty and administrator tools, and the connections to your LMS, student records and payments, so a nurse finishing a shift in the Bronx, an analyst in Midtown or a newcomer studying English in Queens can learn, enroll and get answers from one app.
New York learners are short on time and long on choice. If an app is slow, confusing or only in English, they leave for the next provider. We build for that impatience, and for the state rules that sit behind every enrollment, from the Board of Regents' oversight of colleges to the licensing of private career schools.
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Capabilities
New York education is unusually mixed. Public colleges with campuses in every borough sit beside private universities, hundreds of licensed career schools, English language programs for new arrivals, and professional providers selling credit bearing courses to lawyers, accountants and finance staff. Each needs a different core. A career school needs attendance, progress and refund records that satisfy the State Education Department. A continuing legal education provider needs proof that a lawyer actually attended. A college needs coursework, advising and holds in one view. The capabilities below are the building blocks we combine; discovery decides which of them belong in your first release and which wait. We also look at who pays: a learner paying out of pocket, an employer, a union training fund or a public workforce program each changes how enrollment, invoicing and progress reports should work.
Students check in to each session by QR code, location or instructor roll call, and online sessions record join and leave times. Records feed reports you can hand to the Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision, a funding partner or an accreditor without rebuilding spreadsheets the night before an audit.
Attendance evidence ready whenever it is requested.
Providers of continuing legal education and other professional credits need to confirm that a participant was present and engaged. The app issues verification codes during on demand programs, tracks credit categories and generates certificates of attendance in the format your accreditation requires.
Certificates issued automatically, with the evidence behind them.
ESL schools and adult literacy programs serve learners who speak Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Bengali, Haitian Creole and many other languages. Audio pronunciation practice, vocabulary drills and instructions in the learner's home language help people start before their English is strong enough to read a dense interface.
New arrivals can use the app from their first class.
Lessons, flashcards and readings download in advance and work without a connection, with progress syncing once the phone is back online. For students who spend an hour a day on the train, that turns dead time into study time without draining a limited data plan.
Progress continues between stations and boroughs.
Applicants choose a program, see the catalog, tuition terms and refund policy your license requires, then sign the enrollment agreement inside the app. Signed documents and timestamps are stored with the student file, which simplifies both state reviews and student disputes.
A complete, timestamped enrollment record for every student.
Courses, assignments and grades come from Canvas, Brightspace, Blackboard or Moodle through LTI 1.3, and enrollment and holds come from your student information system. Faculty keep teaching in the tools they know; students get one mobile view across every section they take.
Faculty change nothing and students see everything.
Bootcamps and career schools live on job outcomes. Students build a profile, book mock interviews and see employer events, while staff track placements for reporting. Employers can review portfolios through a limited access link that never exposes grades or other education records.
Placement work tracked in one place.
Tuition, deposits and course fees can be paid by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or bank transfer through your processor, with installment schedules where your policy allows. Refund calculations follow the rules you configure, so finance staff stop working them out by hand.
Cleaner books and fewer billing questions.
Students moving between a community college and a senior college, or from a certificate into a degree, need to see how credits carry over. The app shows completed requirements, books advising appointments by video or in person and lets advisors leave a short plan the student can follow term by term.
Fewer credits lost when students change programs or campuses.
Screen reader labels, captions, scalable text, sufficient contrast and full keyboard support are built into each component. Public institutions in New York fall under the federal Title II web and app rule, and private providers face ADA claims in New York courts, so accessibility is planned, tested and documented.
Every learner can complete every task.
Good fits
The right first release depends on what your learners do every week and which regulator reads your records. These four situations cover most of the New York providers who contact us. Each has a different starting point, and the order in which we build matters as much as the feature list. If yours mixes two of them, such as a college that also runs a career school, we plan modules so both can share sign in and payments.
Schools licensed by the Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision must keep enrollment agreements, attendance, progress and refund records in order, and their students are often working adults. We start with enrollment, attendance and progress, because those records carry the most risk, then add payments and career services. The result is an app that helps students finish and helps the school show it is following the rules. Admissions representatives get a simple pipeline, so inquiries from open houses, referrals and the website are followed up the same week.
We build to your license conditions; your compliance lead confirms them.
Programs teaching English to new New Yorkers need very simple screens, audio first content and multilingual instructions. Learners may share a phone with family members, so we design careful sign in and privacy options. Teachers get quick tools to post homework and send reminders in several languages at once, without retyping the same message. Sites that run classes in libraries and community centers across several boroughs can publish location changes to each group separately.
Audio and pictures do more than translated text for early learners.
Firms that sell continuing education to lawyers, accountants and finance staff in Manhattan need fast on demand video, credit tracking and certificates. Their buyers are busy professionals who pay by card and expect a polished experience. We build a premium learner app with the verification and reporting your accreditation body expects. Firm administrators can buy seats in bulk, assign courses to their staff and download completion reports for their own records.
Most students at New York's public colleges commute, many work, and some take courses at more than one campus. A college app should combine schedules, coursework, advising appointments, holds and campus services, and it should work offline on the train. If your college also sells training to school districts, we account for Education Law 2-d contract terms in that part of the product. Campus services such as tutoring, food support and counseling sit one tap away from the schedule, where students actually look.
Working together
We do not have a New York office. Codeeo's team of 80+ is based in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and we work remotely with US clients, running discovery, design reviews and training by video call. Across the UAE and the US we have delivered 200+ projects and are rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. Clients usually choose a fixed scope first release, a monthly retainer for ongoing improvement, or a dedicated team that joins their own developers on a longer program. Career schools and ESL providers tend to prefer the first two; colleges and larger professional education firms more often pick the third, because their roadmap runs for several years.
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
React Native or Flutter for cross platform apps, native code where audio or video processing calls for it, a secure cloud API, and standards based integrations such as LTI 1.3 and SAML. We fit the stack to the people who will maintain it.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
That depends mostly on integrations and the approvals around them.
A career school app with enrollment, attendance and payments can reach students sooner than a college platform connected to an SIS, LMS and single sign on. State reviews, security questionnaires and accessibility testing often decide the pace more than development does. We list those dependencies in discovery and plan the launch around your next intake, then agree the dates in writing before design starts. Launching in the quiet weeks before an intake, rather than during it, gives staff time to learn the admin tools.
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