Update to Arux helps programs deliver a better digital experience to families

In 2025, every before-and-after-school program, enrichment class, and camp needs a digital home — an easily accessible online space where families can quickly find the information they need. In this article we will outline how the updated Arux Community Portal content builder can help your community:

• Discover what types of programs you offer and when they are available

• Learn about important program information including fees, schedule types, and requirements

• Sign up for programming, access their accounts, and get in contact through the appropriate channels
  

And to meet the demands of the modern consumer, it is also important that this experience is mobile-friendly.

Over 60% of community portal visits on Arux are from a mobile device.

Arux's Community Portal mobile experience.

This is often the first place families will encounter when interacting with your organization. Making that first impression count is crucial for driving engagement. A smooth, intuitive parent enrollment experience can significantly increase registration rates and user satisfaction. 

But you are busy, focused on serving the children in your community, leading your team and site staff, and trying to grow your programming in the spaces in between. Having to develop a great digital experience for your families, alongside that vital work, is not always practical.

This is where the Arux Community Portal comes in. The Arux Community Portal is a digital home and series of landing pages for your programs that enables you to connect with your community, promote your programs, and allow families to enroll and manage their accounts. With Arux, you can customize the digital experience for your families without needing to be a full-time web developer.

Today, Arux is excited to announce an update to the Community Portal content builder, our backend drag and drop tool that enables our customers to organize their program landing pages with simplicity. With the new Arux Community Portal content builder, everyone is a digital marketer.

Let's dive into the exciting updates and the challenges they help our customers solve.

146 options to improve the digital experience for your families

One of the most significant updates to the content builder is more templated options. There are now 146 drag and drop templates grouped into the following categories:

• Basic

• Article

• Headline

• Buttons

• Profiles

• Photos

• Contact

• Process

• Quotes

• Partners
  

These templates provide a structured framework for your content, making it easier to highlight courses, programs, or care services while maintaining your brand identity. Whether you’re promoting new programs or offering key information, templates take care of the bulk of the work for you, so you can focus on the details that make your programs special.

Moreover, the ability to save custom templates means you don’t have to start from scratch every time you make changes to your website. You can create layouts that best suit your needs and then reuse them across different pages or programs, saving you time and ensuring consistency.

Selecting and editing templates in Arux's Community Portal content builder.

Customize buttons, text, and images without code

Text, buttons, and images are now easier to customize without requiring knowledge of HTML. With Arux, you now have access to button, text, and image templates. Additionally, you can now customize each of these items with just a few clicks, helping you create a fully branded, personalized experience.

This includes the ability to match your buttons to your brand colors, format dimensions, and create hover effects that enhance interactivity. Your customizations to system templates can now be saved as custom templates for future use for you and your teammates.

The builder also allows for easy cropping, bordering, and resizing of images, helping you adjust visuals to fit perfectly within your layout. Whether you’re uploading banners, icons, or images, the process is now streamlined, allowing you to focus more on content and less on technical details.

General options for editing button styling.

Tips and best practices Arux customers

There is a lot to explore, so here are a few considerations as you get started and things to keep in mind along the way:

• Consider accessibility: Make sure your landing pages are accessible to everyone. This can include keeping text out of image files for screen readers and ensuring good contrast between text and backgrounds for readability.

• Save custom templates: If multiple staff members are editing your Community Portal, saving and reusing custom templates ensures efficiency and consistency across your team.

• Don’t stop at your home page: Add sub-pages (such as About Us, FAQ, and Policy pages) to provide a comprehensive, dynamic resource center for your community to keep them informed, and more importantly, build credibility and trust.

• Make it yours: Leverage your district’s or organization’s brand guidelines to include color schemes, logos, and other imagery that strengthen the existing and familiar visual connections to your programs.

• Set recurring reminders to revisit: As you launch new programs and seasons, take time to come back to your Community Portal to brainstorm and experiment ways to improve it and sharpen your content builder skills.

It’s time to dive in

The updates to the Arux Community Portal content builder are designed to provide more flexibility, control, and efficiency in creating a community experience that is both functional and visually appealing. We’re excited for you to explore these new features and transform how you connect with your community!

If you are an Arux customer and would like help enhancing your Community Portal and a tutorial on the new functionality, please contact your Customer Success Specialist directly. 

If you are looking to enhance the digital experience you provide your families with, Arux would love to help. Request a demo today to learn what your programs would look like on Arux.