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Our new site is built in Drupal, an open-source content management system that Technology Services selected in part for its flexibility and breadth. It is a complex system with lots of possibilities. We hope you'll be excited by the variety of things our new system allows us to do, but if you find the new system overwhelming, we will also still retain the workflow option of submitting updates through the Office of Communications.

Video Training Modules

Please take these in order. The videos total just under 3 hours, plus time to take the assessment. After you have submitted the assessment, please allow three business days for processing before you inquire about your account status. We should contact you within that time with your account information, but reminders after that time are welcome!

  1. Drupal Basics (~4 minutes)

  2. Logging In + Content orientation (~4.5 minutes)

  3. Editing 1: Top Content Basics (~11.5 minutes)

  4. Sidebar Options (10 minutes)

  5. Editing 2: Column Callouts, Column Layout, Page Preview, Horizontal Slider (~23.5 minutes)

  6. Editing 3: Full-width Image with Callout, Brand Message, Facts with Image, Call-to-Action (~12 minutes)

  7. Editing 4: Media Gallery, Video Embed, Image with Caption (~5 minutes)

  8. Editing 5: Person Carousel, Sample Courses, Accordion, Quick Tabs (~9.5 minutes)

  9. Editing 6: Flexible CTA Blocks, Flexible BG Image Blocks, Gridder (~9.5 minutes)

  10. Editing 7: Side-by-Side Media and Text, Image with Links, Group of Links, Related Links (~10.5 minutes)

  11. Editing 8: Featured Stories, Events, Article + Event Submission (~9.5 minutes)

  12. Editing 9: Outcomes, Social Wall, Twitter Feature (~11 minutes)

  13. Last Notes: Publish Status + Meta Tags (~4.5 minutes)

  14. Reusable Components (~6.5 minutes)

  15. Uploading Files (~3.5 minutes)

  16. Adding Content Pages (~5 minutes)

  17. Anchors (~7 minutes)

  18. Creating New Pages within Your Permission Group (~4 minutes)

  19. Inserting Media in WYSIWYG Fields (~5 minutes)

 

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Notes About Editing the University Website in Drupal

  • Content editors will be set up with permissions to their internal site content. There may be some cases where external site content may be added to individual content editor access as we refine editing permissions and roles.
  • Not all content editors will have access to create reusable paragraphs, but any editor can use them! If you don't have access to create reusable paragraphs, you can easily request to have the Office of Marketing & Communications create it for your use or update an existing reusable component.
  • Content editors will only have access to edit page content, not create/modify menus. This may be something we can refine down the road with further experience and training.
  • If you have questions about editing content in Drupal within your permission area, contact Barbara Weist directly. If you have website content requests outside your permission level/area (including menu corrections, form editing, incorrect links or site performance outside your area), please submit those items through our Lytho project management system. 
Sample Elements

Need to see what the elements available on pages look like without watching the videos again? Try this sample page we set up during testing. It showcases a wide variety, if not all, the possible layout elements (paragraphs). 

Sample Elements Test Page
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