Beyond Blue

At a Glance

An all-encompassing digital learning platform for Australian educators, arming them the tools and professional resources necessary to protect student mental health. Supporting Be You on their mission to grow the next generation of mentally healthy Australians.

Extensive user and stakeholder research
Co-design and ongoing UX validation
Incremental, data-led enhancements

Gamification and accreditation
Developed in Sitecore CMS
Salesforce CRM integration

The challenge

A learning platform for teaching the teachers.

According to Julia Gillard, 27th Prime Minister of Australia and Beyond Blue Chair "Half of all lifelong mental health issues emerge before the age of 14. Providing educators with the tools to foster resilience and social and emotional wellbeing is an investment in everyone’s future because mentally healthy kids learn better.”

As the digital delivery expert supporting this investment, our team needed to develop a deep understanding of educator needs. This would allow us to design a targeted digital solution for supporting mental health-related professional development.

The solution

A bespoke platform for teachers and educators.

Human-centred platform design
Flexible modules, resources, and courses
Gamification and Salesforce integrations

VERSA designed and developed Be You, an educational platform that houses a collection of modules and online courses for educators. Be You offers professional development by providing hundreds of resources across themes such as bullying, self harm, and suicide prevention.

Educator research and testing data was central to the design and evolution of platform. Learning modules were designed to accomodate learning personas and user archetypes, with gamification and notifications also added to encourage learning and exploration.

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By educators

User research and one-to-one interviews
Unmoderated testing to validate iterative improvements
Isolated testing across registration, IA, and navigation

For educators

Modular and non-linear professional learning courses
Downloadable resources for adaptation in the classroom
A personalised dashboard with progress tracking

Led by research, our strategy was to create a flexible and self-guided platform. This would allow educators to progress at a pace that suited their busy schedules, with curated pathways for learning personas requiring a more guided experience.

The Results

A digital tool supporting a critical mission.

The Be You platform has become a transformative tool in empowering educators across Australia to address mental health challenges head-on. By promoting mental health understanding and enhancing educator support capabilities, the program has contributed to the establishment of resilient learning communities across Australia.

We continued to work with Be You as a specialist digital delivery partner, helping to scale the platform as it continues to grow and evolve. With hundreds of additional resources being added since launch, we are working closely with Be You and it's end-users to prepare the platform for the next phase of transformation.