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µÛÍõ»áËù adopted in 2019.

Drupal is a free, open-source web content management framework web content management system that is easy to use and scalable. Drupal provides a back-end framework for at least 2.3% of all websites worldwide – ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites.

After conducting a review of several systems, the Web Services team decided to move forward with Drupal hosted on the based on the following criteria:

• Security
• Architecture
• Maintenance
• Ability for staff to manage and update content
• Ease of migration
• Experience with Higher Education Institution

Drupal provides the following benefits to the University: 

• Standardized web presence on a common tool
• Centrally managed and supported websites
• Cost savings on licensing and hardware for departments and colleges
• Non-IT and non-UCM staff can manage content
• Increased functionality and easier reuse of content across our websites

If your website or content resides on a content management system other than Drupal, please to initiate an evaluation with UCM on how best to migrate your site and/or content.

Due to the size of µÛÍõ»áËù's website and the importance of keeping it up to date, there are hundreds web contributors campus-wide in charge of managing online content for their college or department.

UCM maintains a web manager directory to locate primary contributors for each area.

1. You must obtain approval from the site manager of the OHIO subsite that you will be accessing.
2. The site manager must request the access using our UCM Request form.

Only those who have been granted access will be able to log into Drupal with their OHIO ID. 

Fill out our and select "combination" as your request type. Please give us as much detail as possible. We will schedule a kick-off meeting to get all the details we need. 

Gabrielle Johnston 
Marketing Services Manager
johnstog@ohio.edu
740.597.1859