We were sitting in our client's office, the six of us. There were experienced e-learning people on the other site, an agile coach, and a Drupal team. "It should be more attractive as the standard e-learning platforms. It should be sexy" - I heard the need to be expressed, and I knew that we were at the right place at the right time. It is good to see a customer who is qualified and ready to break with classical, framework-focused e-learning approaches. Well, okay, but 500 good quality videos? That's impossible. It is what I thought while I asked the project leader to show us some real examples so that we could imagine the nature and quality of the videos. He did. It was hard to believe that it is possible to keep this quality in case of several hundreds of videos, so we had a long conversation about the background process. He finally convinced me.
We started to work on the portal development under the name "Edu-port" back in autumn 2013. Our commitment was to provide access to five minutes of videos for high school students in a well-structured, searchable way. We decided to use Drupal instead of Moodle, even though we needed to implement the SCORM standard to be able to embed the materials, and Moodle would have been able to do it by default.
Half-year later, we went live in spring 2014. Since then, it ticks and grows. It is what happens when the relevant content finds its form.
Zanza.tv has served more than six million site downloads and more than twenty-thousand registered users during the past four years. All this without any marketing expenses and further developments.
More info: https://prezi.com/loxp8ld-i1su/zanza-portal/
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