An Overview of Content Management
Systems Specialized for Higher Ed
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Top Eight Content Management
Systems for Higher Education
1) Buzzr.com Higher Education
Content Management System Platform is known as very affordable and having fast turn around
times. Created with mStoner, world’s leading digital marketing consultancy for higher ed.
Complete turn-key solution, with hosting and support built in. Known as Software as a Service, or SaaS. Our solution lets schools create and easily administer either their main campus websites (and responsive mobile sites) for small colleges or university schools and/or many smaller sites or micro-sites using the same centralized multi-site platform.
For an in-depth review of the process of working with the Buzzr Higher Ed CMS for a small college, you can look at this video from our partner.
Recent websites include Palo Alto University, Paul Smith's College, and this departmental site for Utah State University.
More than 100,000 websites have been created with Buzzr open source technology.
Buzzr Higher Ed CMS (continued)
Strategic marketing, content, design services available
Fully integrated responsive design for mobile and tablets.
Buzzr implementations typically take 1/3 the time and cost less than one half the price of a custom Drupal education website.
Leverages Drupal, the most popular CMS in education, but since the solution is fully-supported by us (including hosting, security and training), eliminates the need for costly, in-house web developers.
More than 10,000 Drupal modules for further customizations.
Websites can be cloud hosted or exported to your own servers.
Optional Quickstart system for one-click self-service roll-out of new sites. Ideal for student organizations, faculty sites, small departments, or even teaching website skills.
An intuitive, icon-based user interface for managing content.
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Buzzr Higher Ed CMS (cont.) Editing options presented in-line, on pages throughout each site.
A flexible list of content types, such as faculty profiles, news articles and feature stories.
Create dynamically updates directories of content, such as faculty or student directories.
Calendars for presenting campus events.
Online giving for donations and development
Simplified user interface for managing user roles and permissions.
Built-in site search tool.
Integrated Google Analytics and search engine optimization tools.
A homepage slideshow with text overlay.
Drag and drop widgets such as calendar, campus headlines, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, random stories. A special interest feature system with randomized sidebar content.
A system for tagging content and generating tag-specific dynamic views, widgets and pages.
2) Campus Suite
Focused on just the higher education market for
15+ years. Focuses on bringing together
community of students, faculty, parents and
alumni. Views their products as communication
tools. Campus Suite customer support is trained
to focus on problems specific to Higher Ed. Offer
online, phone and video support.
Campus Suite (cont.) Simple-to-use content editing and publishing
Workflow approvals Permissions based access
Choose from multiple templates for design
Responsive design for mobile and tablets
Online directories. E.g. student organizations, faculty listings. Faculty pages to create profiles. Teach pages for individual teacher sub-sites with lesson plans, calendars, etc.
Podcast tool. Podcasts personalize a website so greater user engagement.
Social media integration. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and more.
Form builder
Announcements to spotlight timely news
Photo galleries
3) Hannon Hill
Hannon Hill, founded in 2001, is known for
premium customer support. Customers can call
them as much as they want and speak to the
entire Hannon Hill staff. Special help forums,
webinars and tools & tips posts to further
advance customer support. Cascade Server is
their premium CMS product. Cascade
Server emphasizees features for mobile, social,
agile/flexiblity, collaboration and extensibility.
Hannon Hill (cont.) Cascade Server product specialized for mobile publishing and responsive design
Integrated publishing with Twitter, Wordpress and Facebook
RSS Broadcasts
Simple-to-use content publishing and editing.
Workflow management tools.
"Content Strategy Management Suite"
Multi-site platform with Quickstart tools. Unlimited sites ad users.
Cloud or installed servers. Platform agnostic (Windows, Linux, etc.)
Analytics suite.
Schedule publishing of content
Shorten URLs for SEO. Search engine friendly, SEO scoring
Custom meta-data
Enterprise Search Version control
Personalized administrative dashboards. Online and onsite training Free code repository
Annual user conference
Multi-server publishing, load balancing, failover
4) Ingeniux A popular choice, Ingeniux offers CMS 8, along with 24x7
support. They also offer robust digital asset management.
Software as a Service. It’s a hosted, cloud solution. If you have a web browser and permission to enter, you can access the CMS.
Add apps. 300+ extensions.
Form builders
Google analytics
CRMs.
Simplified editing. They advertiser a “tech-free” editing experience, meaning no coding or tech training required to administer day-to-day content.
Mobile ready. A responsive site accessible from any mobile device is part of their service offering.
5) Jadu Jadu is very popular with colleges. It’s also a CMS
used in other verticals.
Drag and drop design that non-techies can use.
Simple to add and edit content creation and editing function.
Customize marketing message based on visitor registration information. E.g. Prospective students shown info on the degree they want to pursue.
Multi-site called Jadu Galaxies. Let your departments, organizations all use the same CMS as the main college website, but with their own sites.
6) Live Whale The LiveWhale’s CMS also provides easy content
creation and editing. Bills itself as the CMS “for
storytellers."
Design flexibility. Hundreds of color coordinated layouts.
Skip the designers when building a site. Or hire them to
build a custom design.
Unlimited e-mails tech support.
One day of on-site training.
LiveWhale Calendar is made just for schools. Add images,
videos, content on events listings. E-commerce for tickets
sales to events.
7) OmniUpdate
Founded in 1982, the company has focsed on
higher ed since the 1990s. Their OU Campus
CMS has been deployed by scores of educational
institutions, making it a market leader. The CMS's
highlighted features include powerful
administration, streamlined content, user-friendly
editing, reusable content, quality control,
convenient publishing, extensibility and effortless
syndication.
OmniUpdate (cont.) Software as a Service cloud or local hosting
Code open to developers
"Modules" -- add ons to extend functionality.
Course catalogs
Calendars
Campus maps
Faculty directories
Blogs
E-mail campaign managers
Mobile
Social media mashups
Live delivery platform
"True cost calculator" for adding up tuition, fees, etc.
Robust dashboard called “Gadgets.”
Back end dashboard for analytics, going as deep as analysis of individual pages.
URL editor
Image editor
Drag-and-drop "snippets" of information from page-to-page
Check out content
Site activity trackers Inbox messages
Dependancy tags.
Simple-to-use publishing tools. No tech knowledge required to post and edit content. Rich text editor works isimilar way to creating an offline documents with text, charts, images. One click to publish.
8) T4
T4's slogan is "defining digital engagement for
Higher Education." Headquartered in Dublin, T4
serves large numbers of European clients, but
also has U.S., Australia and UK offices. "Achieve
greater engagement online with personalization,
social media integration, easy to create micro and
mobile sites," T4 promises.
T4 (cont.) Intuitive editing tools
Permissions based publishing of content
Multi-sites with large numbers of templates
Responsive design and mobile templates
Accessibility
Workflow approval
Social Media Dashboard
Google Analytics
SEO tools for improving performance
E-mail integration
Campaign management performance
Form builder
Recruitment dashboard
Research dashboard
Integrate with third-party systems such as Blackbaud, Ellucian and Blackboard
Personalize user experience
Course structure
Course catalogue
Social poster
University events
Expert databases
E-portfolios
Research showcases
24/7 support
Want more information?
Contact Buzzr.com at 917-410-1490 or
Ask for Ed Sussman or Taub Swartz