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About

For everyone: what the Sleev platform does, area by area, with a link to the guide for each.

Sleev is two things: the course app, where students work through the Diploma in Theology and staff run it, and the website, Sleev's public site. This page covers both, starting with the course app.

Courses and content

The course is organised as levels, each made of modules, each made of lessons. A lesson has a PDF to read and a button to mark it complete; a module can also carry its own resources — an introduction, an appendix or a handout — alongside its lessons.

Course content is either imported from the content repository, in which case its title, order and description are locked to match the source and are updated each time the content is re-imported, or created directly by an admin, who can edit it freely. Every page that shows content marks which kind it is.

Learning

Levels are unlocked in order: a student can only see a level once an admin has granted it, and a locked level shows only its module and lesson titles until then. Finishing every lesson in a level completes it — a milestone that stays recorded for the student even if a lesson is added afterwards or un-marked; such a lesson simply shows as "Not done" rather than reopening the level. Admins and superadmins are notified when a student completes a level, so the next one can be granted.

Assignments and grades

A lesson or module can carry several assignments. Each student makes one submission per assignment, as a PDF or Word document; re-uploading while it awaits grading replaces the current attempt's file, and a new, numbered attempt starts only once a grader returns the work for revision, with a note explaining what to change. Assignments and grades are records of a student's work; they don't by themselves control which level a student can see.

Progress and risk indicators

Staff can see each student's progress by level, with indicators that flag a student as on track, inactive, blocked (waiting on a grade) or ready for the next level — worked out from real activity rather than just time since enrolment.

Nudges

Staff can send a short reminder to one student or several at once, by email and in-app, with its delivery status tracked.

Announcements and notifications

Staff post announcements to everyone, to a role, or to everyone currently on a level; students see the ones aimed at them and can read the full text. Every notification — announcements, nudges, grading, returns, level access, submissions to grade — is delivered both in-app (with a bell showing unread items) and by email, and its delivery status is visible to staff. Admins can also see a log of every email the platform has sent, with the option to retry a failed one, and can set an address that gets a hidden copy of every email.

Users and roles

There are four roles — student, faculty, admin and superadmin — created only by staff; there's no public sign-up. A new or reset account gets a one-time temporary password. Admins manage student and faculty accounts; only a superadmin manages another admin's or superadmin's account. An admin account can also be labelled a teaching admin — set by a superadmin — which counts it among faculty for dashboards and faculty-wide announcements, without changing what it's allowed to do.

Students who were already partway through the course on Moodle before moving here can be brought in by staff — by a CSV import or a one-off dialog on the student's page — with their completed levels and lesson progress carried over and flagged as such, and any already-graded work marked "Completed on Moodle".

Files

Lesson PDFs, module resources and assignment submissions are kept in private storage. A download only works for someone signed in with the right access to that file, and the link that makes it happen expires after a short time.

Operations

Behind the scenes, the platform runs on infrastructure with scheduled backups, monitoring and a release process. That side of things is documented for the operator and developers, not here.

The website

Sleev also has a public website — course and programme information, a contact form and a registration form, both with spam protection, and analytics with a cookie-consent banner. It needs no sign-in and has no guide pages of its own.