One home per subject. Material organised by week. Offline-first.
Every subject gets a single page. Lecturers upload material once, students find it in the same place every week — on a phone, during load-shedding, on patchy campus Wi-Fi. Not a cloud drive, not a WhatsApp thread.
Material, organised for the way students actually study.
Organised by week, not by upload date
Lecturers tag each file with a week number and topic. Students see 'Week 3 · DC Circuits' with the video, slides and worksheet together — no hunting through a chronological dump.
Works offline. Syncs when power returns.
Material cached locally on first open. During a stage-4 outage students still see last-downloaded slides. A background job pushes new weeks the moment the connection comes back.
Mobile-first, not mobile-afterthought
78.7% of South Africans access the internet on mobile (DataReportal, 2023). The subject page renders cleanly on a R1 500 Android phone, with PDF preview and video playback in the browser — no app install required.
Lecturer control of visibility
Draft, published, archived states per file. Lecturers publish a worksheet at 8am for the 10am class without anyone seeing it beforehand — a small detail that procurement cares about.
“The portal is not a cloud drive. It is the one place a student opens before a class — and it is the same place, every time.”