HHMI Biointeractive Community platform

Forum One worked with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) BioInteractive team to create a user-friendly and engaging collection of educational resources, interactive applications, lesson plans, workshops, videos, news articles, and more to help 40,000 science educators around the world connect students with inspiring ideas in biology and increase engagement with the sciences.

Working closely with HHMI’s internal design team, our team designed and developed a robust and flexible resource library application in Drupal that allows users to search, filter, explore, and connect with content in ways that fit their unique needs. We originally developed the site in Drupal 8, then upgraded it to Drupal 9 as part of our ongoing support, enhancement, and new feature development for the site.

The new website allows educators to search and explore multimedia resources across topics and formats, and assemble them into customized and shareable collections and lesson plans. Logged in users can favorite and share resources, and even save collections of resources to custom “playlists” with the ability to add notes to individual items. The HHMI team can also present curated playlists around current issues and themes, and easily feature individual resources on the site.