Academica has developed a user-friendly and noteworthy overlay for the Drupal Content Management platform. This customizable, easy-to-use interface has been tailored for the higher education market. Our new Higher Ed CMS module provides improved usability and functionality through its unique templates, enhanced dashboard and workflow/security components. 

The primary benefit for colleges and universities is the ability to access the leading open source web content platform and all application modules using a content management interface that provides maximum usability for your audience.

Our objective is simple

We want to get you up and running on the leading open source CMS quickly and easily, with the minimum disruption to your current team.

Our new Drupal 7 HigherEd configuration offers schools a real opportunity to get the latest Drupal release along with a group of modules selected to support typical HigherEd web operations. Along with that we provide  a custom, easy-to-use interface has been tailored to the higher education market.

Our HigherEd CMS Drupal 7 configuration was developed out of a perceived demand that many institutions want to deploy an open source CMS solution and save money, while others simply want a fast track to the latest Drupal release. As a result we built our first HigherEd CMS configuration on Drupal 6 about three years ago. Our latest Drupal 7 release is extensively tested and we have a number of clients deploying the system (which is only just being released). Our HigherEd CMS includes Drupal Core (version 7.x), along with many community-contributed modules (see table below), and several extensions to Drupal created by the Academica Group . 

The primary benefit for colleges and universities is the ability to access the leading open source web content platform and all of the application modules via a content management interface that provides maximum usability to end users. Additionally we have a developed a standard Drupal configuration for HigherEd and thoroughly tested all of the core and module components - ensuring a fast and reliable implementation of an open source product.

What this means for schools is that you can quickly install the latest Drupal 7 CMS – without having to select, integrate and test hundreds of modules. And we have optimized the configuration for HigherEd installations – after numerous input sessions with many existing Drupal users. Our objective is simple – to get you up and running on the leading open source CMS quickly and easily, with the minimum disruption to your current team.

Academica developers start with a base configuration and then begin creating a new theme based on the user-interface designs given to them by our creative team.  Custom functionality is then added to the site by extending Drupal through its module API.

Academica does not change anything in the core of Drupal – ensuring that you are able to support everything.  All custom work is done as extensions - which allows you the freedom to upgrade the Drupal system to new minor releases which typically address security flaws.

Want to road test our HigherEd CMS?

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