Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility
Building students’ social and emotional skills, strengthening the classroom and school community, and making schools more caring and equitable
Improving access to educational resources
An outdated Drupal 7 CMS and complex configuration hindered user experience, making it difficult for Morningside staff to manage content and locate valuable educational resources across devices. Fíonta partnered with Morningside to re-envision their website, leveraging Drupal 8 to create a user-friendly, accessible platform with improved information architecture and visual appeal.
Challenges
- Outdated CMS and complexity
- Inefficient search functionality
- Limited access to valuable resources
Solutions
- Implement Drupal 8 CMS
- Enable filtered resource library
- Implement consistent branding
Results
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Increasedsystem functionality
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Improvedaccess to resources
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Enhanceduser engagement and experience
The redesign and rebuild of Morningside’s website makes it easy for teachers and other users to find our Teachable Moments, facilitating Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and the use of Restorative Practices (RP) with students.
Project highlights
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Modern CMS and enhanced functionality
The Drupal 8 CMS provided Morningside with additional functionality and ease of use, streamlining content management for their staff.
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Filtered resource library
The improved taxonomy and search enabled a filtered resource library for “Teachable Moments” lessons, making them accessible and related to relevant content.
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Consistent branding and communication
The updated website design was extended to the Donate page and email templates, creating a consistent look and feel to reinforce the organization’s brand and improve engagement with the audience.
Project Summary
Fíonta completely rearchitected and redesigned the website, replacing Drupal 7 with Drupal 8, enhancing functionality and ease of use. A filtered resource library was introduced for Morningside’s “Teachable Moments” lessons, making them more readily accessible.
Through an improved sitewide taxonomy and search, Morningside could accomplish something they couldn’t through Drupal 7 CMS – contextual access to articles and lessons that accompanied lesson plans and related content.
Additionally, we styled the Donate page to match the fresh new website. We created an email template design to emphasize the brand and improve communication with the audience using Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (formerly Pardot).
Outcomes
Fíonta built the rearchitected, redesigned site on the modern Drupal 8 CMS, offering Morningside additional functionality and ease of use.
A filterable resource library of Morningside’s Teachable Moments lesson plans means those important assets are now accessible, shareable, and presented with contextual, related lessons or articles due to improved sitewide taxonomy and search.
We styled Morningside’s Donate page on Network for Good and created a new email template design to match the new website and emphasize the brand.