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Creative Curriculum

Client: Teaching Strategies, Inc. (TSI)

Project: CreativeCurriculum.net,  Teaching Strategies' online, subscription-based child assessment system. - www.creativecurriculum.net

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Challenges: 

  • Build an extensive and highly-intricate online assessment system based on Teaching Strategies' paper-based assessment system and its existing online assessment website. 
  • Incorporate new designs, a brand-new database schema, a new hosting infrastructure, and an entirely new codebase.
  • Transfer millions of rows of data from a legacy site into the new system. 
  • Improve site usability and navigability, while retaining the full range of options and capabilities offered by the original site.
  • Guarantee that existing users would experience little or no interruption to their subscription service during the entire process.
  • Complete and launch the new site within an aggressive, and firm delivery schedule.

Solutions:

  • Planned, designed, programmed, tested and launched a complex, data-intensive new website within schedule and budget.
  • Significantly improved the look-and-feel and usability of the site.
  • Rebuilt all of the old site's existing functionality while optimizing the speed, structure and overall scalability of the website.
  • Added significant new features and tools including new reports with dynamically-generated graphs and tables, and content management tools to allow Teaching Strategies to manage content on its own.
  • Developed and integrated an order tool that manages leads, contracts and sales of Creative Curriculum subscriptions.
  • Ensured that launch and implementation was smooth for customers.

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