5 Reasons Drupal is Game Changer for Higher Education Websites

“Drupal is a free, open source content management system that powers a million websites including some of the biggest or most important like the White House, NASA and Twitter.

What is Drupal?

⃟ Drupal is one of the most preferred content management framework with a wide array of customization tools

⃟ Drupal is not only open source, but has the flexibility and scalability to cope masterfully

⃟ The top class features and flexibility Drupal makes it best suited to build websites that are easy to manage, safe and secure

Multi-Site Functionality

⃟ Drupal’s built-in multi-site functionality help institutions to provide a substantial toolbox and relevant media types to all departments for communicating with students, staff, and other users via a single system

⃟ The multi-site capability helps institutions break out independent websites by giving control and ownership to individual departments

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Easy to Implement Different Access Rights

⃟ A number of different privilege or access levels is done easy with Drupal web design

⃟ Site administrators can group access privileges by function or role, with permissions assigned to groups of users

⃟ Individual users don't have to be manually granted privileges

⃟ Easy creation and management of content without placing undue burden on the IT team and infrastructure

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It Includes Section 508 Compliance Features

⃟ Section 508 compliance means all users, regardless of disability status, can access technology and use the internet. This may mean, for example, that a website is compatible with assistive technology (like screen readers)

⃟ Public universities receiving federal funding must be compliant with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973

⃟ Drupal website design includes modules that make compliance easier.

⃟ Drupal modules make it easy to create a compliant site and to validate the site's accessibility.

⃟ Drupal has the power, flexibility, and "blueprints" (via Drupal distributions)

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Multilingual Options

⃟ Drupal 8 is now available in over 110 languages⃟ A site built on Drupal can be made available in almost any

language depending upon student demographic⃟ This feature allows decision makers to take into account:

international student associations, global event communications, foci of studies, and more

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Secured

⃟ College sites are often targeted and loads of data stolen from the website

⃟ Drupal being an Open Source Software (OSS) is generally more secure than proprietary software

⃟ Drupal’s security team is highly responsive and sends frequent security fixes for all actively maintained versions—all security fixes are logged

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26% of all .edu sites use Drupal

World’s Top Universities Use Drupal

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