Clare Hall College
Attracting the world’s best postgraduate students and scholars
Staying at the forefront of academic excellence is a challenging and continually evolving landscape for Universities. Find out about how we delivered digital excellence to match Clare Hall’s renowned academic environment.
Clare Hall College, is a distinguished academic setting for advanced postgraduate study within the University of Cambridge. Known globally for its intellectually vibrant and interdisciplinary environment, the college provides a stimulating academic setting for postgraduate students and scholars.
The 10 Degrees team collaborated with the college’s working groups, which represented key stakeholders across campus, and ran discovery workshops to determine the key requirements. With WordPress being ubiquitous across higher education, it made sense to power the new website with the world’s most popular CMS.
“Partnering with 10 Degrees for our college’s website redesign was transformative. Their expertise in WordPress and deep understanding of higher education needs ensured a seamless process.”
Katherine SelbyCommunications Manager
Clare Hall College
Developing an educational content experience centred around students
Clare Hall’s website hadn’t been updated for years, leading to a cumbersome user experience which failed to reflect the institution’s modern identity.
The website contained hundreds of pages of content which impacted SEO, user navigation and engagement. It lacked a positive mobile experience which posed challenges for users accessing content on mobile devices. Due to its age, it didn’t meet modern standards for accessibility, failing the legally required WCAG AA guidelines.
The 10 Degrees team collaborated with the college’s working groups, which represented key stakeholders across campus, and ran discovery workshops to determine the key requirements. With WordPress being ubiquitous across higher education, it made sense to power the new website with the world’s most popular CMS.
Impact
“Our discerning President and Fellows have shared glowing feedback. We highly recommend 10 Degrees’ services.”
Katherine Selby,
Communications Manager, Clare Hall College
591
Intranet users
100%
User engagement
50%
Reduced bounce rate
210s
Time on-site mobile
Life Members portal
The Life Members portal creates alumni engagement through the community of Clare Hall via global groups and societies. It allows alumni to connect with old friends and colleagues, stay abreast of upcoming events and keep personal details updated through web forms.
Intranet with single sign-on
We architected and produced a new intranet for Clare Hall College to facilitate efficient room booking, event promotion, and content management, with the aim of improving internal communication and productivity. The newly built intranet soon became a key part in enhancing efficiency with communications within the college. Students, staff and fellows have personalised access to different content areas which are tuned to each audience.
Working closely with the college’s IT department, we implemented a secure single sign-on solution to streamline user authentication and access permissions for students, staff and fellows which ensures an efficient user management through the college’s Active Directory groups.
College calendar integration
Integrating the college’s Outlook calendar with their intranet enables real-time access to synchronised meetings and events for the whole college. This seamless and automated integration enhances transparency and helps promote events more widely across campus.
Methodology
We run comprehensive discovery phases as standard. With Clare Hall College we analysed their existing content, conducted student focus groups, and documented project requirements. Collaborating closely with stakeholders like this, we ensured alignment and mitigated project risks at each stage of design and development through agile techniques.
- Stakeholder management
- Iterative improvements and recommendations
- Delivering client and end user satisfaction
- Long-term support and maintenance
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