Education in the Cloud – Campion's Digital Journey

Education in the Cloud – Campion's Digital Journey

Come see how four million students are moving from paper to digital, leveraging containerized microservices for scale, and integrating with a complex partner network as well as the national schools ecosystem.
Campion Education is the largest supplier of education resources to primary and secondary schools in Australia, including print, digital and stationery.

Years ago, Campion sourced an e-reader platform from the U.S. as students migrated away from paper-based textbooks. Working with SSW, Campion have undertaken the immense task of regaining ownership by building their own e-reader platform, and solving complex technical challenges along the way.

In this talk, the inter-organisational team comprised of Patrick Zhao and Michael Smedley from SSW, and Alexander Candy-Levy from Campion, will take us through the complexities of dealing with multiple school IT systems across many states, complex book licensing and API management with various publishers. All while providing a stable user experience for hundreds of thousands of students and teachers who depend on their textbooks every day.

This talk will focus on the architecture to accommodate the at-scale performance needed, the Single Sign-on (SSO), Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) and Learning Management System (LMS) required to allow other publishers and schools to authenticate, and some of the deployment and cloud setup required by the SaaS product.

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We are back in the house! If you are fully vaccinated and would like to see this talk via the live feed with our team, you are welcome to join us from 6 pm at SSW Melbourne. There will be an opportunity to ask the presenter questions.

Agenda:
6:00 pm - Pizza and networking 🍕
6:30 pm - Welcome & News with Adam Cogan
7:00 pm - Education in the Cloud – Campion's Digital Journey (Live from SSW Melbourne)

• OR, you can still join us on the live feed from 6:30 pm!

About the speakers:

Alexander Candy-Levey is passionate about creating great software with amazing people. Alexander has been working in the ed-tech and retail sector for 10 years as an engineer, business analyst, project manager, tester, trainer and development manager. Alexander primarily works with .NET, Angular and People.

Patrick Zhao is an SSW Solution Architect who has extensive experience in building enterprise applications for clients across different industries using best practise and modern tech stack.

Michael Smedley is the SSW State Manager for Victoria, supporting the growth of the Melbourne office over the last three years. He is driven by his passion for technology and innovation and approaches projects with creativity and an "out of the box" mindset.