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Stanford Sites: Drupal for Content Editors

Before each live online session, Tech Training will provide a Zoom link for live online classes, along with any required class materials.

Get started with content creation, formatting, and management using a mock site of a fictitious department. We will walk you through a basic content management workflow to allow you to become more familiar and help you build confidence in working with your own website!

 

Irina Zaks

Irina Zaks

Irina Zaks is a web developer, a technology teacher, and an open-source software evangelist with Stanford Open Source Lab. She is working on developing advanced web solutions for research and academia.

Program Description

Get the most out of Drupal by learning how to use the content management system that powers Stanford sites and another quarter-million sites worldwide. Learn to create and edit content, along with how to apply tags, and manage menu navigation.

Content is King, as the saying goes. This class will teach you how to combine the essential skills needed to manage content and make interacting with Drupal effective, easy, and efficient. 

Learning Objectives

By the end of this class, students will have had the opportunity to: 

  1. Implement basic content management workflows in Drupal, including creating, editing, archiving, and deleting content.
  2. Manage main menu navigation to enhance visitor access and help users find content effectively.
  3. Apply best practices for accessibility and SEO, ensuring that content is accessible to all users and optimized for search engines.
  4. Utilize the media library to manage and organize digital assets efficiently.
  5. Add and display structured content types such as news, events, event series, and people within Drupal.
  6. Apply tags and classifications to content to improve organization, discoverability, and user navigation.
Topic Outline
  • Basic content management workflows
  • How to create, edit, archive, and delete content
  • How to work with main menu navigation to help visitors find content
  • How to implement content best practices for accessibility and good SEO
  • Manage your assets using the media library
  • How to add and display structured content like news, events, event series, and people
  • How to apply tags and classification to content
Prerequisites

Participants need to have the latest update of Drupal, but the class will reference differences from prior Drupal versions where relevant. 

Special Features

All participants who complete this session will receive a Stanford Technology Training Certificate of Completion.

The live-online format allows for engagement and interaction.

Credits
  • 3 Professional Development Units (PDU)
  • 0.3 Continuing Education Units
  • 3 Professional Development Hours 
  • Stanford Technology Training Program Certificate of Completion Awarded

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