✔ Let students complete a bank placement remotely and at their own pace
✔ Track points, attempts and passed tests for every assignment
✔ Show progress and results in a personal account
✔ Award a certificate to those who reach the pass mark
✔ Collect applications for placements, internships and HR consultations
PUMB is one of Ukraine’s largest banks, and it needed a platform where students from all over the country could complete their work placement online, while the bank could see who was learning and how, and build up its talent pool.
I built the platform on WordPress and Tutor LMS Pro. The placement is split into seven modules with videos and presentations, each followed by a test or a practical assignment. The grading rules are built into the system: 10 points per assignment, a pass mark of 8, three attempts, up to 100 points for the whole placement and a certificate from 72 points.
Now students register with their phone number, log in with a confirmation code sent by e-mail, work through the modules on any device, keep track of their points in their account and download their certificate. Alongside the placement there is a catalogue of additional courses and application forms for placements, the PUMB DRIVE internship and HR consultations.
A platform where students complete their placement on their own, and the bank sees each one’s results.
Videos, presentations and a test or practical assignment after each module
10 points per assignment, a pass mark of 8, three attempts; up to 100 points in total
Students see the lessons they’ve completed, their test results and points earned
From 72 points – a certificate students can hand in to their university and add to their CV
The username is a phone number, and after the password comes a confirmation code by e-mail
Forms for placements, internships and HR consultations with university, subject and year
Around the online placement course, I built a learning platform that takes students from registration all the way to a certificate.
The website handles several key tasks:
Guaranteed reply within 24 hours.
The first call is free and with no commitment.
More and more companies train students and employees online: it is easier to reach people in different cities and to see right away who has mastered the material. PUMB bank’s Student Hub is an example of such a platform: the online placement, the points system and the certificates add up to a single path from registration to the talent pool.
Student Hub is the student portal of PUMB bank (First Ukrainian International Bank). It is where the bank brings together everything it offers young people: meetings at universities and online workshops, work placements, the paid PUMB DRIVE internship, HR consultations and vacancies. At the heart of the portal is an online learning platform where students complete their placement and additional courses.
My part of the work was this platform on WordPress: courses and modules, tests and assignments, the points system, the personal account, certificates and the application forms through which students get onto placements, internships and consultations.
The placement is a single course of seven modules. Each one covers something a person in an entry-level role at the bank needs to know:
The materials are videos and presentations. Students choose their own time, place and pace, and can study on a laptop, tablet or phone. The path is described right on the placement page and has four steps: fill in the registration form, complete all the modules, pass the tests and get the certificate.
The main requirement for the platform was transparent grading that calculates itself, with no manual spreadsheets. The rules are built into the course settings:
The results go into the gradebook, and in their personal account students see their progress, test results and points earned. Once the course is completed with a pass, the certificate can be downloaded straight from the account – students can hand it in to their university or add it to their CV. Everyone who receives a certificate joins the bank’s talent pool and can get a consultation with an HR manager about a career at PUMB.
The username on the platform is a phone number in the 380XXXXXXXXX format, so students don’t have to come up with a username. When registering, they enter their phone number, e-mail and a password. After the password is entered, a confirmation code is sent by e-mail – this second step protects the account even if someone has found out the password. There is also password recovery and a “stay logged in” option.
The login form is built right into the course pages. A student who arrives via a link to a course logs in or registers without leaving the page, and after registering is taken back to where they started.
Besides the placement, the platform offers additional courses grouped into blocks: time management, business communication in Ukrainian, working in Teams, techniques for working in Miro, a course on TikTok and an “AI tools for students” course. They are optional for the placement but give students more useful skills. The catalogue can be sorted by date and title, and every course shows how many people have enrolled – the online placement already has more than 1,100.
To get a placement, an internship or a consultation, students fill in an application form. The forms collect what HR can work with straight away: full name and date of birth, phone and e-mail, university, subject and year of study, placement area (IT, a bank branch, financial leasing), place of residence, a link to their CV and how they heard about the project.
The learning platform lives inside a careers portal. The PUMB DRIVE internship page explains the terms – paid part-time work, 4 hours a day, a mentor – the specialisations and the application deadlines, with answers to frequently asked questions in expandable blocks. The HR consultations section describes what the career advisers can help with: reviewing a CV and LinkedIn profile, preparing for an interview, a job search strategy. The events section lists meetings at universities, job fairs and online workshops, each with a date and a registration button.
A corporate learning platform doesn’t have to be built from scratch. WordPress with Tutor LMS Pro covers the main needs: courses and lessons, tests and assignments, a gradebook, certificates and a student account. The portal pages are built with Elementor Pro and PowerPack, so the bank’s team can update texts, events and banners without a developer, and the learning and the website live in one system with a single student account.
This approach saves budget at the start and leaves room to grow: a new course is added like an ordinary post, and the grading rules and certificate are configured separately for each course.
Online learning for students, employees or partners only works if it is convenient for people to learn and easy for the company to see the results. When building an LMS, I recommend thinking through a few things from the very start:
A good corporate learning platform on WordPress means a well-thought-out course structure, a fair points system and a path where every step a student takes leads to a result – for them and for the company.
