Designing an online learning platform ahead of its time.

I designed GoodSemester starting in 2009 as a truly modern learning management system for colleges and universities. It contained a full suite of tools for online education including an interactive grade book, collaborative note taking tools, discussion boards, group work, assignment submission and more. Designing GoodSemester involved extensive collaboration with teachers, students, and the administrative faculty of schools.

GoodSemester entered public beta in early 2012 after a lengthy private beta with multiple universities. However, after I discovered that users in the general public primarily wanted tutorial creation tools, I shut the service down and pivoted the company into Squareknot.

GoodSemester for iPhone

GoodSemester for Web

Read more about GoodSemester

Saylor OTC texts now available via GoodSemester
7/2/2012 on the Saylor Academy Blog

GoodSemester: Basecamp for OER?
3/28/2012 on Inside Higher Ed

GoodSemester: Not an LMS, but a Learning Platform
3/14/2012 on e-Literate

Open source educator GoodSemester teams up with the 20 Million Minds Foundation
3/14/2012 on EdTechTimes

GoodSemester: the ‘Basecamp’ for classroom learning launches public beta
3/14/2012 on Technically Philly

Lehigh student revolutionizes education with GoodSemester
2/22/2012 in The Brown and White

GoodSemester aspires to be bigger than an LMS
2/8/2012 on EdSurge

Promo Video: What is GoodSemester?

Launch Demo - Philly Tech Meetup, March 2012