EduPulse
Schools have at least four distinct audiences using the same system — admins, teachers, parents and students — each needing a completely different view of the same underlying data. EduPulse is designed around that split from the ground up.
The challenge
A school management platform has to serve an administrator managing the whole institution, a teacher managing a classroom, a parent tracking one child, and a student navigating their own schedule and work — all from the same underlying data, but with completely different needs, permissions and mental models.
Designing one undifferentiated interface for all four roles, or designing four fully separate apps, are both failure modes: one is confusing, the other is unmaintainable.
Approach
I designed four role-based workspaces sharing one data and component foundation, so admin, teacher, parent and student each get an interface scoped to what they actually need to do, without the engineering team maintaining four separate codebases.
On the build side, Next.js 14 gave me the routing and rendering model to serve these distinct workspaces efficiently from one application, which matters for a product that needs to stay maintainable as a solo or small-team build.
What I built
A role-based school management platform with four distinct, permission-scoped workspaces.
- Admin workspace: institution-wide management and oversight
- Teacher workspace: classroom-scoped tools and communication
- Parent workspace: single-child tracking and school communication
- Student workspace: schedule, assignments and personal progress
- Built on Next.js 14 as a shared foundation across all four roles
Outcome
EduPulse is in active development as a Nexsofture product, built around a role-based architecture designed to scale to more schools without a redesign.
The role-based architecture is the core design decision the whole product depends on — getting it right early means new features extend naturally into each workspace instead of requiring four parallel builds.