Study of Varndean e-Learning

Study of Varndean e-Learning

Introduction to the Company, (Overview)

Varndean e-Learning is a small educational software company based in a

school. The people who run the company were all at one stage teachers

at Varndean School. Their company was formed in 2001, when the

directors wrote some software to help their students with GNVQ ICT.

They Still work from a small office within the school, where they

develop software and take orders over the phone. All of their software

is thoroughly tested on students from Varndean School before it is

marketed as they believe it must be appealing and value the views of

the students.

They run Sales Seminars in London and Birmingham three times a year

where they demonstrate the software to large groups of people on a

large screen. They also run Training Sessions three times a year in

London and Birmingham where teachers from many schools who use the

software go to learn how to use it.

Varndean e-Learning may only be a small company now, but they have

many plans for the future, which include spreading out into other

areas of the School Curriculum and developing software for them to aid

the student's learning.

Sales

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John Burton, one of the directors of Varndean e-Learning has many

roles within the small company. He works on developing the Interactive

Learning Software and within the Finance department, but his main role

within the company is selling the products to customers.

One of the main ways products are sold is through their Website,

(http://www.varndean.net), where potential customers can order a demo

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to find could be information about the software they use, programming

languages or they may want to compare prices on the products the

purchase and find the best price. When they are working with a new

piece of software, it may be necessary to find more information on it,

and this is made possible by the use of the internet. They may find

the information on a website, in a discussion forum or they may have

to send an email to request the information.

Another use of communication in this department is between employees,

(internal communications). This can help to prevent the software

developers overwriting each other's work, if they both know what has

been done to the package before hand. This could also speed up the

development stages in that they won't both be working on the same part

of the software package.