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Cégep de Thetford

Website redesign

User experience

WordPress multisite

Accessibility

Bringing clarity, autonomy, and impact together: rethinking the web experience in service of knowledge.

Interface de la page d'accueil du site du Cégep de Thetford

Designing a modern, inclusive educational platform

Cégep de Thetford sought to transform its digital ecosystem to better reflect its dynamism, simplify navigation for diverse audiences, and deliver a seamless experience across all platforms. With more than three distinct websites, including the CEC de Lotbinière and Les Filons, the redesign aimed to unify the brand, modernize the experience, and make content management easier for internal teams.

The challenge

Create a coherent, scalable web system that simplifies the user experience while giving the Cégep full autonomy over content management.

  • Consolidate multiple websites into a single WordPress multisite platform
  • Rethink the information architecture to clarify navigation
  • Make academic programs easier to discover
  • Deliver a high-performing, accessible mobile experience for all users
  • Simplify content and form management in compliance with Law 25

Our approach

A redesign built to last.

We reimagined the Cégep de Thetford website around a modular design system that combines flexibility, clarity, and performance. Each section was rebuilt to better guide visitors, students, parents, faculty, and partners alike, while equipping internal teams with the tools needed to manage content autonomously.

The multisite architecture allows each entity (Cégep, CEC de Lotbinière, Les Filons) to exist independently, while sharing the same technological foundation and core components.

Autonomy and efficiency

A unified dashboard to manage everything with ease

Thanks to a custom-built administration panel, the Cégep teams can manage content like programs, news, events, and forms across multiple websites from a single interface.

  • Custom-developed modules make it possible to manage academic programs, the staff directory, and templates without technical intervention, while maintaining high performance.
  • Visual editing tools simplify content updates, and granular permissions ensure secure, shared management across departments.

Technical note

Powered by WordPress Multisite, the platform centralizes the management of multiple environments within a single interface.

A user-centred experience

Clear, modular tools built to last

Every feature was designed to improve discoverability, performance, and ease of use for both visitors and administrators.

  • Clean navigation and dynamic filters to explore programs and services.
  • Pages built from modular, reusable templates.
  • Mobile-optimized interface compliant with accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA).
  • Smart forms connected to internal systems.
  • Centralized management of news, events, and alerts.

A platform designed for the right people

Connecting students, staff, and the community

The new website becomes a digital meeting point where information flows with clarity and relevance.

News and alerts

A dynamic module to publish news, events, and emergency messages, visible in real time across all platforms.

Smart forms

Dynamic forms connected to internal databases, streamlining admissions, information requests, and continuing education registrations.

Results

A unified, fast, and vibrant website that truly reflects the energy of the Cégep and its community

This redesign places experience, performance, and long-term sustainability at the heart of digital education, while providing teams with an agile and durable tool.

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websites unified (Cégep, CEC de Lotbinière, and Les Filons) within a single multisite ecosystem.

100%

of content updates managed autonomously thanks to modular templates and a simplified CMS.

24/7

availability ensured by an optimized infrastructure (cache/CDN), delivering stable performance on both mobile and desktop.