Academy4Privacy: App for data protection training courses

Since it came into force in 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation has presented companies with major challenges: All employees must be trained by data protection officers. An enormous additional organizational effort – both for companies and for data protection officers. Academy4Privacy recognized this problem and commissioned WOGRA to develop an online training app. This can ensure that every employee receives the necessary data protection training.

While a variety of learning management systems now exist, most are based on the so-called SCORM format, which was last updated in 2004. Producing learning content in this format is time-consuming and costly, and therefore often not profitable for smaller providers. This was also the case with Academy4Privacy: A simple upload function and the possibility to manage learning content in an uncomplicated way were sufficient for the customer. For PDF documents, an additional mechanism has been provided to guarantee that content is actually read. In addition, the app is multi-client capable, so that different customers can be provided with information and training at the same time. This solution was implemented by two WOGRAners within three months as an Angular Single Page Application with a Java Spring backend.