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5 Ways to Audit a Learning Product (And double-check which one you actually need)
An audit isn't about looking for typos. It's about finding out why students buy a course but drop out halfway through. Depending on what is happening with your product right now, you usually need one of these 5 approaches:
1. Pre-launch / Sanity Check
You do this before the first student logs in. It’s a quick quality check to make sure your landing page promises actually match what's inside the LMS on day one, and that no technical bugs will ruin the onboarding.
2. Routine Health Check
Your course or onboarding workspace has been running smoothly for 3–6 months. A routine check is just a proactive review to ensure your content hasn't grown outdated, external links aren't broken, and your completion rate isn't quietly dropping.
3. Emergency Audit (Firefighting)
The "holy sh*t" moment. Refunds are spiking, students are complaining in Discord, or everyone is dropping out at Module 3. You run a firefighting audit to find that one specific bottleneck, fix it immediately, and stop losing money.
4. Deep-Dive / Scaling Audit
You do this before big changes. For example, if you are migrating to a new enterprise LMS, launching globally, or restructuring a messy knowledge base for a growing team. It's a full 360-degree overhaul of your learning architecture.
5. Post-optimization Check
You already ran an audit, made some changes, and now you need to know if it actually worked. This check compares your past metrics against new data (like lower module churn or better survey scores) to measure your real ROI.
Operating a learning product blindly gets expensive quickly. If you want to know exactly what’s broken in your course structure or student flow, check out my services below and let’s set up a quick audit.
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A director approached me wanting full visibility of personal transactions made through the company’s bank account. Personal and business spending had been mixed, making it hard to see what belonged to whom. He needed to know exactly where his money went, without it distorting the company’s financial position.
Solution
I reviewed the full bank statements and identified every personal transaction. Each one was categorised and recorded against the director’s personal account, keeping it separate from the company’s balance. Company transactions were left untouched, so the business accounts stayed accurate. I then prepared a clear, transaction-by-transaction report showing dates, amounts, payees and the running balance.
Result
The director received an in-depth view of every personal spend, with a clean separation from company funds. This gave him clarity over his own balance, supported accurate company books, and made future reporting and tax compliance simpler. It also gave him a clear record to refer back to whenever questions arise.
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Funny thing about having a course without clear learning objectives: everyone thinks it’s fine until someone asks what students should be able to do at the end.
The content is usually good, and the lessons are there. But nobody can say what “finished” looks like, so students can’t either. They just stop at some point and hope they got it.
Writing the objective first fixes most of it. Once it’s clear, you can see which lessons earn their place and which ones are just there because you worked hard on them.
If you’re not sure your course has that, message me and tell me what a student should walk away able to do. I’ll tell you if the course gets them there.
A client once asked me, How does your job correct these problems?
I smiled because for him to ask me that question, he already believed I could help.
He just needed to understand how and I wasn’t going to shy away from explaining that.
So I broke down…
📌 How a poorly structured user flow can make people abandon a product before completing a task.
📌 How unclear navigation makes users work harder than they should.
📌 How the right product decisions can make an experience easier for users and help the business achieve its goals.
His web app had these problems and as I explained them, he started seeing what I was seeing. And he was ready to move! 😎🔥
Most times, clients know something isn’t working, but they just can’t pinpoint what it is or how to fix it. That’s where I come in.
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