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Automated Accountability

You can lead a horse to water but you got to make sure they drink

Learning management systems often fail because content distribution doesn't guarantee engagement. At Learn.co, the focus was on actual completion. The strategy involved breaking every activity required of you into simple tasks that could be monitored and automated.

70%+ Completion Rate

While most online platforms struggle with single-digit completion, Learn.co achieved over 70% by separating curriculum from task completion tracking.

Student checklist interface
The checklist system that drove accountability

Task Types

Tasks had various categories covering both educational and administrative requirements for student success:

Available task types
The variety of task types available

Automated Everything

An automation layer ensured students received credit only when they genuinely completed tasks through API integrations.

Example: Three Things Activity

Students daily completed a Typeform/Google Form with three questions:

  1. What's one thing you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
  2. What's one thing you're going to do better tomorrow?
  3. What's one thing someone else did for you today?

Credit was granted only upon actual submission, verified through the form's API.

Typeform integration
Typeform
Slack integration
Slack

Checklist Templates

Templates automated checklist assignment across student lifecycle phases, from onboarding through job search phases. Some assigned automatically (like enrollment triggers), others manually by coaches/instructors.

The Job Search Activity checklist was particularly effective, assigned weekly post-graduation to structure job search activities systematically.

Monitor, Measure, Review

Reporting views tracked progress, showing students actively working, completed-but-needing-review, and overdue status. Tasks supported feedback mechanisms for code review and interview notes.

Coach assignment
Assign
Reporting dashboard
Monitor
Review interface
The review interface for coaches

The Impact

The system clarified expectations, reduced student burden through automatic tracking, and enabled scalable review workflows supporting student success.

By making accountability automatic rather than manual, we freed up coaches to focus on what matters: actually helping students learn and succeed.