Courses for a motorcycle mechanics school

Academia2Rodas was created as the educational arm of Magnetron, one of the largest motorcycle parts companies in Brazil. A2R was born to be an online school selling courses to mechanics and workshop owners.

Problem:

Magnetron had this central goal, but its employees did not come from education. So they trusted Poly to lead the whole process, from the concept of the school, to how it would operate, to what it would teach (the content).

Solution:

Since we had no experience with this audience, we ran an ideation workshop with experts: mechanics instructors, mechanics and motorcycle parts salespeople. From that, we wrote a pedagogical proposal to guide all the work. We finished by building the LMS itself while coordinating the content.

Technologies used:

• LearnDash
• Divi
• WooCommerce
• H5P

How we designed the foundation of the Academy.

After the Design Thinking workshop, we wrote the A2R Pedagogical Proposal, a 37-page document detailing what would be taught and how: the didactic structure, practical applications, a do's and don'ts manual and the overall project schedule. The basic structure of every course came out of that document. We split each course into content (the videos) and several more playful parts, such as "Checking the Screws", a didactic exercise that prepares the mechanic for the task given in the "Hands On" part.

From storyboard to recording.

With the pedagogical proposal in hand, Magnetron put us in touch with several mechanics who agreed to teach the classes. We talked with each one about the content we needed and supported them throughout the process of building the syllabus. After all, they were the experts and the content creators. With the material in hand, we built storyboards with the exercises we would create in H5P. A partner of ours handled all the recording and editing of the videos, and we supervised to make sure the result was what we expected. Meanwhile, we set up the platform with LearnDash and WooCommerce. Because the institutional and sales website was built by a web design agency, the LMS only took over from the shopping cart onward. That made the process smoother and faster, without much fuss. Since this audience would watch the courses in the workshop itself, we decided not to decorate it with too many features. So the LMS was simply a portal to log in and watch the courses, without many extras. < See other projects