McGraw Hill Ed­u­ca­tion

The platform's content model was deeply nested, with multiple layers that could each hold content or simply act as containers. In practice, teachers often had to click through several levels before reaching anything usable.

That slowed teachers down and broke their flow. For administrators reviewing the platform at a state level, it also made it harder to see what was actually in the curriculum.

To reach the course structure, teachers first had to open a separate Browse This Course view, then decide whether to enter a container or expand it, then continue drilling down until something actionable appeared.

That was slow, especially during a live lesson. The deeper the structure went, the more work it took just to find where the useful content lived.

The redesign kept the course hierarchy in view the whole time. Teachers stopped going in and out of containers and moved through the course directly.

A navigation panel on the left stayed open, so teachers could reach any content without losing their place. A full-page table of contents showed the whole course at once.

With the updated navigation in place, teachers no longer had to drill through intermediate containers to reach instructional materials. Teachers could see the content hierarchy at a glance, and the table of contents was reachable from every content page.

The full-screen table of contents also gave administrators and reviewers the whole curriculum in context, so they understood its structure and scope faster. That mattered in state evaluations, where how easily reviewers found things affected whether the curriculum got adopted.

The content didn't change. Teachers could finally see where it was, and reviewers could see all of it at once.