Admin panel
Users, refunds, categories (Career, Family, Finance, DIY, Intellect, Pets, Community, Spiritual, Travel), featured courses, failed mail, S3 usage. Admin does not edit Julie’s lesson script unless asked.
Laravel admin
Fallstudie · LMS · Laravel
Our Sistahood LMS
Our Sistahood LMS
Courses, enrolments, and a real checkout
Our Sistahood (oursistahood.com.au) teaches Indigenous women through video modules — Job Ready, How to Start a Business, and eight life-area categories. The build is a production LMS: PHP / Laravel, not a page of YouTube links and a Facebook group.
Was ausgeliefert wurde: student campus and instructor studio on the web, a Laravel admin panel, email + password auth with reset mail, ecommerce checkout for paid courses (free lifetime courses stay free), video learning from cloud storage, and transactional email. Data: MySQL for the live campus, PostgreSQL for completion reports.
Laravel
Instructor · Student
Ecommerce
Email login
Lesson 1 · S3
Enrolled
Maya W. · Job Ready · OS-ENR-10482
Paid $0 (community course) · enrolment still a commerce order
Laravel
PHP backend + admin
MySQL
Users, courses, orders
PostgreSQL
Completion reports
3 seats
Admin · Instructor · Student
LMS roles
Instructor, student, enrolment — and an admin who is not the instructor
Julie Okely builds Job Ready. Maya watches it. Admin sees every payment and every stalled enrolment. Those are three Laravel guards, not one shared password.
Course instructor
Create course, modules, lessons, quizzes. Upload mp4 to cloud storage. Publish. See who enrolled, who stalled on lesson 2, who passed the quiz. Cannot see another instructor’s payout except their own.
StudioStudent
Register with email + password. Browse catalog. Checkout (or free enrol). Watch video, resume, sit quiz. My learning list is enrolments, not bookmarks.
Campus
Das Problem
A Zoom recording is not enrolment management.
Before Laravel, Job Ready (0.32 hours, updated October 2023) lived as a Zoom file and a Word outline. Maya registered interest in a Google Form. Nobody could say whether she finished module two. Paid workshops were bank transfer and a spreadsheet. Password reset was “email Julie.”
- No student recordEmail was a mailing list, not an account with bcrypt and a reset token.
- No enrolment object“She’s in Job Ready” was a Messenger thread. Lifetime access could not be proven.
- No instructor seatJulie could not add a lesson without a developer dropping an mp4 on a host.
- No commerceHow to Start a Business could not be $0 for community and $49 for a later workshop without two broken processes.
One student, one week
Maya W. · Moree, NSW · OS-ENR-10482
- Mon 19:04 — Creates account: maya.w@example.net + password. Laravel hashes it. Verification mail via SES. She clicks the link on her phone.
- Mon 19:11 — Opens Job Ready (Career & Business, instructor Julie Okely, 0.32 hrs). Price $0. Checkout still creates an
ordersrow so free and paid share one pipeline. Enrolment status: active. Lifetime access flag: true. - Tue 12:40 — Lesson 1 from S3, signed URL, player saves
lesson_progress.seconds = 184. Resume on the kitchen laptop that night at 184s, not 0. - Wed 20:02 — Quiz 8/10. Attempt stored. Instructor dashboard shows Maya stalled after lesson 1 until Wednesday — a row, not a guess.
- Thu 09:15 — Forgot password. Reset mail, 60-minute token, new hash. Admin did not email her a temporary password in clear text.
Three Laravel panels
Admin sees money and mail. Instructor sees the course. Student sees her list.
Operations
Admin — campus, payments, mail
This is the control tower. Disable a student who shared a password. Refund a $49 workshop. See SES bounces. Feature Job Ready on the home grid. Admin does not rewrite Julie’s quiz.
- Users, roles, password-reset audit
- Orders: free enrol vs Stripe/PayPal paid
- Categories, coupons, failed jobs, S3 health
Sistahood · Admin
Live
1,284Students
42Instructors
18Paid orders / 7d
2Mail bounces
| Time | Event | Who | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19:11 | Enrol Job Ready (free) | Maya W. | Active |
| 18:40 | Stripe workshop $49 | Tia N. | Paid |
| 17:02 | Password reset mailed | Maya W. | SES |
| 16:11 | Bounce · bad domain | old@mail | Held |
Julie Okely
Instructor — course studio
Julie owns Job Ready and How to Start a Business. She uploads the mp4, sets the quiz pass mark, publishes. She sees Maya’s 8/10. She does not see Tia’s Stripe receipt.
- Modules, lessons, quiz bank
- Direct upload to cloud storage (not FTP)
- Enrolment list for her courses only
Studio · Job Ready
Published
0.32hDuration
186Active enrolments
91%Complete
S33 lessons
| Student | Lesson | Quiz | Enrolment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maya W. | 1 · 184s | 8/10 | OS-ENR-10482 |
| Tia N. | Complete | 10/10 | Lifetime |
| Sam K. | Not started | — | Stalled 9d |
Maya W.
Student — My learning
She logs in with the same email on phone or laptop. Job Ready is on the list because enrolment exists. How to Start a Business is not, until she checks out. Progress is not a cookie.
- Email + password (reset by mail)
- Resume video from last second
- Receipt in mail for paid courses
Yaama, Maya
My learning
2 enrolments · email session
Job Ready
Julie Okely · 62% · resume 184s
Continue
How to Start a Business
Not enrolled · catalog
Enrol
Was wir gebaut haben
Nine pieces of the campus. Each one shipped.
Login, enrolment, studio, checkout, video, admin, S3, mail, and reports — not a feature list. Below is how each one looked before, and what Maya actually uses now.
01 · Auth
Email + password
Google Form. Julie emailed a Zoom link. No hash, no reset.
Laravel register, verify, login. 60-minute reset token by mail. Same credentials on phone and laptop.
02 · Enrolment
Student to course
“She’s in Job Ready” lived in Messenger.
Enrolment OS-ENR-10482: student, course, order, status, lifetime. That row is what opens the player.
03 · Instructor
Course studio
A developer dropped an mp4 on the server.
Julie publishes modules, lessons, and quizzes herself. How to Start a Business updates without a ticket.
04 · Ecommerce
Checkout
Bank transfer. Spreadsheet. No receipt.
Stripe or PayPal. Free Job Ready still creates a $0 order so access and mail share one path. Refunds from admin.
05 · Video
Video learning
YouTube unlisted. Lost place. Ads in the lesson.
Signed S3 URL, HLS when needed, resume at 184s on any device after login.
06 · Admin
Admin panel
cPanel and a hope.
Laravel admin: users, orders, categories, coupons, mail log, disable account. Not phpMyAdmin.
07 · Storage
Cloud storage
mp4 on a 20GB VPS. Disk full on publish day.
AWS S3 (or R2) for video and PDFs. Laravel disk s3. The app server stays thin.
08 · Mail
Email service
Julie typed “here’s the Zoom” from Gmail.
SES queue: verify, reset, enrolment receipt, “your course is live.” Bounces show in admin.
09 · Reports
MySQL + PostgreSQL
90% completion was a slide.
MySQL runs the campus. Nightly rollup into PostgreSQL for “who finished Job Ready this month” without locking checkout.
Checkout to first lesson
From email to signed video URL
01
Register
Email + password. Verify via SES. User row in MySQL. No social login required for this product.
02
Checkout
$0 community course or Stripe/PayPal. Order + enrolment written in one Laravel transaction.
03
Queued receipt: course name, enrolment id, “lifetime access” if that flag is set — matching the live site.
04
Play
Player asks Laravel for a short-lived S3 URL. Progress ticks into MySQL. Postgres report picks it up overnight.
Technologie
PHP / Laravel. MySQL for the campus. Postgres for reports.
The public catalog on oursistahood.com.au (Job Ready, How to Start a Business, eight categories, lifetime access on mobile and desktop) is served from Laravel. Auth is email and password — Fortify-style verify and reset. Instructors, students, and enrolments are first-class models. Ecommerce is Stripe + PayPal with a $0 path for community courses. Video files never live on the app disk.
MySQL holds users, courses, lessons, enrolments, orders, attempts. PostgreSQL holds rolled-up completion for staff who must export “who finished Job Ready in October” without touching checkout tables. Mail is SES. Storage is S3. Queues run failed-job retries so a mail outage does not lose an enrolment.
PHP / Laravel
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Email + password
Stripe / PayPal
S3 cloud storage
Amazon SES
Admin panel
PHP / Laravel
Campus, instructor studio, admin, queues, signed URLs, checkout webhooks.
MySQL + PostgreSQL
MySQL: operational LMS. PostgreSQL: reporting warehouse for completion exports.
Cloud storage + video
S3/R2 for mp4/HLS and PDFs. Player never gets a permanent public bucket URL.
Email service
SES: verify, reset, receipt, “course published.” Queued. Bounces visible in admin.
Ecommerce
Stripe and PayPal. Free enrolments still mint an order so access is one code path.
Ergebnisse
Was sich nach dem Go-Live geändert hat
Enrolment is auditable
OS-ENR-10482 proves Maya has lifetime Job Ready. Closing-the-Gap style exports come from PostgreSQL, not a slide.
Julie publishes without us
How to Start a Business updates from the instructor studio. Video lands in S3. Students get the mail.
Money and free both work
$0 community courses and $49 workshops share checkout, enrolment, and SES receipts. Refunds are admin actions.
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