BELA – Business English Language Assessment

Project Description:

For Costa Ricans, knowledge of the English language is crucial for anyone looking for good paying jobs, and getting accredited certificates for their knowledge is what makes people stand out of the crowd, especially in the digital world.

During the pandemic, the online space has grown substantially, and since more jobs are now remote than ever before, the need for knowing the English language has also grown. Our clients Andrea Minicola from SpeakHabla are working hard to bridge the language gap for residents in Costa Rica.

Our team, MegaDevs, while only formed a few months ago, has been hard at work researching, designing and developing solutions for our clients to help them adapt to the digital world. Our team members are:
Eduard Draghiciu (Team Lead)
Johanna Cano (Design Lead)
Rodrigo Gil (Tech Lead)
Ben Peterkins (Developer)
Youssef Khalil (Developer)
Sherefat Onibile (Developer)

We are working with Speak Habla, an established brand in Costa Rica, to develop an English language assessment platform called BELA (Business English Language Assessment). Our platform will allow business professionals to take English tests, and purchase official certification that can be downloaded or added to LinkedIn automatically.
BELA Platform will also allow HR Managers and companies to test their employees on their English level and monitor their progress.

We are building a highly performant and scalable full stack application that will replace their current testing system which involves a lot of manual work to operate. Our application will streamline most of their processes including test scores, generate official certificates, checkout and payment.

The dynamic test feature is what sets BELA apart from the competition. People will be able to take multiple English tests, and our testing algorithm will always show new questions every time. This allows our client to sell more certificates, and also provides BELA with the data to properly analyse and display individual growth based on different question sets.

HR Managers will be able to track employee progress, while admins will be able to add or edit test questions via an intuitive database management user interface called Rowy.

BELA is built using the following technology stack:

Javascript
React
Node.js
Firebase
Cloud Functions

After our first development phase is over, we are hoping that Speak Habla will continue the development roadmap proposed, which includes adding more features to the HR Manager/Company dashboard and to the Admin dashboard.

Finally, we would like to thank our teachers from the MAD9145 course, Adesh Shah and Adam Robillard, for giving us the opportunity to put what we’ve learned in school towards a real life project that impacts real people in a positive way.

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