Education
Broad institutional platforms handle broad institutional needs. The specialized work of a department, faculty member, or student-support team can still fall between the gaps.
Cordial Forge builds focused tools for universities, colleges, academic departments, faculty, administrative teams, and student-support organizations. The starting point is the particular process and the people who use it.
Participation and attendance workflows
Faculty workflows and course administration
Department-specific processes and internal reporting
Student-support workflows
Knowted
Higher education · Web application
Faculty collaboration
Independently developed in collaboration with Seattle Pacific University professors, Knowted helps instructors at SPU engage students equitably and track classroom participation.
A focused application can complement institutional platforms. Assessment and discovery consider supported access, APIs, data responsibilities, and organizational requirements before proposing how systems should work together. Compatibility and integration feasibility need to be established for the particular environment.
I first assess whether custom software is the right answer. Every custom software project then begins with paid discovery. Academic processes often involve several perspectives and constraints; discovery defines the right solution and produces an implementation-ready specification and a proposal for build and maintenance. You decide whether to proceed with the build. Education is a specialization; I also work with organizations in other fields.