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Useful public HTML, course pages that search engines can read, and clear share cards for the things you choose to publish.
Learn Courses preview Course plans by Shane Rounce. Enrolment is not open.
Your knowledge.
Your own academy.
Learn Courses brings my practical courses and a hosted academy service together. I’m building a place to sell your teaching, grow your community and give learners a space that feels like yours, powered by Academic Community Engine on AceHost.
Your academy should feel like yours.
I want each academy to have its own identity, courses and members, supported by one independently versioned Academy server core. Shared software makes operations manageable. Separate tenant boundaries keep one academy’s private learning out of another.
ACEHOSTHosting, operations and recoveryPlanned Academy provisioning and AceLink releases
ACE
Academic Community EngineOne shared server core · Versioned releases · Scoped access
Learn CoursesOwn learners · Courses · Media · Permissions
Your branded academyOwn learners · Courses · Media · Permissions
A network academyOwn learners · Courses · Media · Permissions
This shows the intended service design. The current website is a static React preview, without a production shared backend.
Keep the course together
Lessons, practical work, tutor feedback and a course community in the same learning journey.
Give conversations a home
Public community spaces alongside private groups and course chats, with access tied to the right academy and enrolment.
Make room for real teaching
Recorded lessons, captions, transcripts and planned live voice and video, with a considered experience on smaller screens.
A hosted academy that fits your teaching.
I’ll scope the service around the academy, its teaching and its operating needs. Commercial packages and capacity limits will be agreed before anyone subscribes.
Independent tutor
Your knowledge. Your own learning space.
- A branded academy for your courses
- Public course pages and a focused learner journey
- Course groups, feedback and learning resources
For an independent educator building a considered course offer.
Quoted to scopeAvailability, terms and capacity to be agreed.Academy
Bring your teaching team together.
- A shared catalogue and tutor workspaces
- Cohorts, paid access and community moderation
- Media, learner support and reporting
For a teaching organisation with several tutors and programmes.
Quoted to scopeAvailability, terms and capacity to be agreed.Network
Several academies. One reliable foundation.
- Multiple branded academy sites
- Separate tenants and academy-specific access
- A shared release process with scoped operations
For a network that needs connected infrastructure and distinct identities.
Quoted to scopeAvailability, terms and capacity to be agreed.Watch, listen, talk and take part.
I’m planning a media service for recorded lessons and live learning, with captions and transcripts built into the course experience. A public trailer and a paid lesson will have different publishing and access rules.
Small conversations
Peer-to-peer WebRTC for suitable small rooms, with TURN relay when a direct connection cannot work. Course chat needs durable messages, current membership checks and useful moderation.
Bigger teaching sessions
A planned SFU media path for larger classes, with measured capacity and audio-only fallback. Recording will need explicit controls, participant notice and a clear retention policy.
Voice, video, shared chat and private media delivery are planned. This demo does not connect real participants or open a live call.
Connected infrastructure. Clear boundaries.
AceHost and AceLink
I’m planning Academy-specific provisioning on AceHost and independently versioned releases through an Academy release catalogue. Tenant data will stay separate from shared application releases, with backups and rollback tested before launch.
A considered move
An existing organisation, including Poetry School, could become its own academy through a separately authorised onboarding project. Course rights, learner data, mapping, reconciliation and a recoverable cutover need agreeing first.
A useful preview. An honest roadmap.
Available in this preview
- Rendered public pages and individual share cards
- Searchable course plans and sample learner journeys
- Fictional communities, tutor tools and browser-local chat
Before a production launch
- Authentication, tenant isolation and paid enrolment
- Shared private groups, durable messages and moderation
- Protected media, live calls and tested operations
COME AND HAVE A LOOK
Explore the planned courses →Start with a little curiosity.
Your institution. Your learning space.
Each institution will have its own brand and verified domain, with academic structures, delegated roles and access policies planned for its learners.
Explore the institutional plan →