The JSA had a problem:  how to get their teen sailors to take navigation seriously during their summer sailing program and to be able to pass the BIG BOAT NAVIGATION EXAM at the end of the summer.  ​How do you get a group of rambunctious teenagers to learn the ins and outs of complicated navigation rules and charting during their summer vacation?   Additionally, the JSA wanted an easy to manage Learning Management System (or Virtual Learning Environment.) They also required  the ability for each sailing club instructor to only have access to their own students' progress and quiz results.  Lastly they wanted something interactive that students would enjoy using. For anyone that has a teenager, or who is thinking of getting one, you know this is next to mission impossible!

In order to provide smooth sailing for the JSA, Appdrenaline created a nifty learning application in the open source Learning Management System called Moodle.  Moodle is one of the most widely used Virtual Learning Environment tools,  used in over 5.5 million courses by educators and universities world wide.This interactive, inter disciplinary learning tool for junior sailors and their parents  consists of  over 20 chapters of intensive reading material, homework and pop up quizzes and exams. The course offers private logins for over 80 different instructors to track their student's reading and quiz result progress

From a design perspective, one thing was clear...the many members of the Junior Sailing Association had strong design opinions for their e-learning  website.  Design for us is a very important part of our process and we wanted to make sure that entire organization was pleased with their brand new navigation class.

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