Built a education platform with Sourcegraph Cody?
We'll make it production-ready.
Education platforms serve a uniquely vulnerable audience — often students, sometimes minors — and handle sensitive data like academic records, progress tracking, and payment information. AI tools can scaffold course pages and quiz interfaces fast, but the access controls, content delivery, progress tracking accuracy, and data privacy protections that education platforms require need careful, professional implementation.
Education Platform challenges in Sourcegraph Cody apps
Building a education platform with Sourcegraph Cody is a great start — but these challenges need attention before launch.
Student data privacy
Education platforms often handle data protected by FERPA, COPPA (if serving minors), or GDPR. Student names, grades, progress data, and behavioral analytics all have privacy requirements. AI tools store this data with no awareness of these regulations.
Content access control and paywalls
Paid courses need reliable access gating — enrolled students see course content, everyone else sees the sales page. AI tools generate client-side checks that can be bypassed by inspecting the page source. Server-side content gating with proper enrollment verification is essential.
Progress tracking accuracy
Students expect their progress to be saved reliably — completed lessons, quiz scores, certificates earned. Losing a student's progress is the fastest way to lose their trust. AI-generated progress tracking often uses local storage or has race conditions that lose data.
Video content delivery
Course videos need to stream smoothly at various connection speeds, support seeking, and be protected from unauthorized downloading. AI tools embed videos directly without adaptive bitrate streaming, CDN delivery, or content protection.
Assessment integrity
Quizzes and exams need to validate answers server-side, prevent answer inspection through browser dev tools, handle time limits reliably, and store results immutably. AI-generated quizzes often check answers client-side, making them trivially cheatable.
Certificate and credential issuance
Course completions often generate certificates that need unique verification URLs, PDF generation, and potentially integration with credential platforms. AI tools build the course but not the credential pipeline that gives completions real value.
Multi-instructor and cohort management
Platforms with multiple instructors need content ownership, revenue sharing, and analytics per instructor. Cohort-based courses need enrollment windows, cohort-specific content, and group features. AI tools build for a single instructor with one course.
What we check in your Sourcegraph Cody education platform
Common Sourcegraph Cody issues we fix
Beyond education platform-specific issues, these are Sourcegraph Cody patterns we commonly fix.
Suggestions based on deprecated or low-quality code patterns found in the existing codebase
Cody's suggestions are grounded in your actual codebase, which means if the codebase contains outdated patterns, deprecated library usage, or known-bad code, Cody will suggest those same patterns in new code — amplifying technical debt.
Cross-repo context can leak patterns from one team's code into another team's service
In large organizations where Cody indexes multiple repositories, suggestions can carry patterns from one team's codebase into another, introducing unfamiliar dependencies, different error handling conventions, or architectural approaches that do not belong in the target service.
Security vulnerabilities in existing code recommended as reference implementations
If the indexed codebase contains known security issues that have not yet been patched — unparameterized queries, missing auth checks, insecure deserialization — Cody may suggest these patterns as examples when generating similar code.
Performance anti-patterns replicated from existing high-traffic code paths
When Cody finds existing code as a reference for a new feature, it may replicate performance issues — N+1 queries, missing indexes, blocking synchronous calls — that are accepted in the existing code but will be problematic at the scale of the new feature.
Start with a self-serve audit
Get a professional review of your Sourcegraph Cody education platform at a fixed price.
External Security Scan
Black-box review of your public-facing app. No code access needed.
- OWASP Top 10 vulnerability check
- SSL/TLS configuration analysis
- Security header assessment
- Expert review within 24h
Code Audit
In-depth review of your source code for security, quality, and best practices.
- Security vulnerability analysis
- Code quality review
- Dependency audit
- Architecture review
- Expert + AI code analysis
Complete Bundle
Both scans in one package with cross-referenced findings.
- Everything in both products
- Cross-referenced findings
- Unified action plan
100% credited toward any paid service. Start with an audit, then let us fix what we find.
Frequently asked questions
Can I build a education platform with Sourcegraph Cody?
Sourcegraph Cody is a great starting point for a education platform. It handles the initial scaffolding well, but education platforms have specific requirements — student data privacy and content access control and paywalls — that need professional attention before launch.
What issues does Sourcegraph Cody leave in education platforms?
Common issues include: suggestions based on deprecated or low-quality code patterns found in the existing codebase, cross-repo context can leak patterns from one team's code into another team's service, security vulnerabilities in existing code recommended as reference implementations. For a education platform specifically, these issues are compounded by the need for student data privacy.
How do I make my Sourcegraph Cody education platform production-ready?
Start with our code audit ($19) to get a clear picture of what needs fixing. For most Sourcegraph Cody-built education platforms, the critical path is: security review, then fixing core flow reliability, then deployment. We provide a fixed quote after the audit.
How much does it cost to fix a Sourcegraph Cody-built education platform?
Our code audit is $19 and gives you a complete report of issues. Fixes start at $199 with our Fix & Ship plan. For larger education platform projects, we provide a custom fixed quote after the audit — no hourly billing.
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