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United Star Distance Learning Consortium

Registration front-end for organizations & memberships bridging into a 3-rd party web-app

United Star Distance Learning Consortium

United Star began as a leader in satellite delivery of distance education courses and professional development then transitioned to teaching and learning through blended technologies. 
 
Now in the 21st century, United Star is again leading the exploration of a new medium for professional development --- PD in 3D Virtual through United Star's beautiful Star Island in Second Life.
 
Student instructional partners are Oklahoma State University and Lincoln Interactive providing career tech, college prep, and dual/college credit courses.
Organizational focus
Education
Organization type
Non Profit
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Background

It was imperative to quickly build a replacement website to serve as a front-end at http://usdlc.org with at least a basic registration mechanism for the transition period. In the long run Allora Consulting had deploy new registration features based on CiviCRM modules.

Challenges

User databases at usdlc.org and usdlc-l2l.org must be perfectly synchronized. CiviCRM's organization / user structure must mirror a pre-existing data structure of parent Organizations and child Organization Members at http://usdlc-l2l.org Changes of user status on usdlc.org site must propagate semi-automatically to the management console of USDLC-L2L. 

Solution

Community Builder and CiviCRM were the candidates. Advanced features of CiviCRM's Membership module and Organization / Individual relational management made this choice a no-brainer.

Functionality

  1. Registration interface for three types of accounts
  2. Annual Paid Membership
  3. Organization <-> Member management
  4. Ability to sync accounts with a propitiatory 3-rd party database

Project images (click to enlarge)

USDLC Registration Interface

Sergey Nosenko (Allora Consulting)

Sandy LaPlante  (USDLC)

Cris Crissman, Ph.D. (USDLC)