Teachers TV is a UK-based free-to-air television channel aimed at people working in education. The channel is funded by the Department for Education and Skills and operated by Education Digital, a consortium of Brook Lapping Productions, ITV and the Institute of Education. The Teachers' TV website makes most of the channel's programmes available to view online or download. As of March 2008 Teachers' TV offers 2,000 programmes to 150,000 registered users, averaging over 1 million visits per month.

Version 1.0 of the Teachers TV website was launched in February 2005. As the site grew, it proved difficult to navigate and began to struggle under increasing load. By the middle of 2006 a new solution was needed. Teachers TV, through Victoria Real, chose Efurbishment to implement a Drupal-based CMS solution. By mid-October the migration was complete on schedule and the site was relaunched with minimal disruption to 45,000 users. Three months after relaunch the site had gained an additional 35,000 users, with traffic up 50% on the previous year.

With Efurbishment help, the Teachers TV website won first prize in the web division of the 2007 Japan Prize. The Teachers TV website won the 'Best Public Sector Service' at the 2006 Revolution Magazine Awards. The Teachers TV website won highly commended in the Government and Information category of the 2006 BIMAs (British Interactive Media Association awards), and highly commended at the 2006 Japan Prize.

Note: Teachers TV re-branded in March 2007, but the underlying Drupal platform remains the same.

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