One Drupal Platform, Hundreds of Virtual Schools
I recently had the pleasure of working with one of the nation’s top provider of online educational programs for children from kindergarten through 12th grade. In fact, they also provide resources for parents who may be home-schooling their children, and teachers who are interested in supplementing their in-class syllabus with additional courses and programs offered online.
In order to meet the needs of these diverse audiences in 29 states (and growing) all across the country, our client has been delivering educational content via literally hundreds of virtual school websites. (Their method of delivery is by offering proprietary curricula and educational services to private schools and public school districts; as part of that offering, they provide a customized marketing website that effectively delivers individual K12 services.)
And until now, they have been managing these platforms separately with some content overlap in a cumbersome and outdated manner -- the burden wasn’t just overwhelming to their staff, but it also wasn’t sustainable to enable their ongoing growth around the core mission: educate.
Flash forward to today: In just a matter of hours, K12 can roll out new websites for customers supporting the greater good of furthering student educational outcomes via participating school districts, engaged parents, and active teachers across the country.
We helped them to achieve this scalable solution by building a robust publishing platform using Drupal. We implemented a virtual site platform that integrates with shared content repositories on the back-end. It also includes, from a design standpoint, a suite of visual themes that administrators can “plug in” with the click of a button, then customize more fully for each customer in a matter of minutes.
Thanks to this incredible leap forward, the K12 team is already planning to roll out another 20 school sites beginning in the upcoming weeks.
If you want to hear more about it, give us a shout!
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