Learners Hub

Learners Hub is a lightweight and fairly easy to understand software utility aimed to assist high school students and other people interested in expanding their general knowledge, by offering them a series of topics to learn more about.

The program displays a very minimalistic graphical user interface, with big buttons serving a series of very self-explanatory functions, meaning it is unlikely users will have trouble working with it.

The main window of Learners Hub enables users to load the content they wish to study from local files or obtain it from a predefined online source, with just a push of a button.

The application’s main function basically consists of playing a series of slideshows on various educational topics. However, it does not allow users to create their own topic files, nor can they import them from other file formats (for instance PPT), which is a minus.

Moreover, the supported file extension is not at all common, and compatible files can in fact only be found on Learners Hub’s homepage. Given that this tool is in its early development, it is evident that only a handful of files is currently available.

Aside from the abovementioned lack of tinkering possibilities in what concerns the functionality of the utility, it is also limited in terms of appearance and usage. As such, the main window is not resizable, nor can the text font or dimensions in the slideshows be customized.

Similarly, users can only navigate the presentation by pressing CTRL+ left / right arrows, or from the corresponding options in the ‘Slide Control’ menu. A nice addition would be, for instance, the ability to customize hotkeys.

To sum it up, Learners Hub is an extremely simple application that is meant to assist students in further enriching their education. However, considering its current limitations, one can only assume future enhancements should be on their way.