Drupal for Content Managers

About the course

Your UCT website is often the first point of contact for students, staff and visitors — and this course makes sure you're equipped to manage it well. Drupal for Content Managers is the required foundation course for all UCT staff who will be creating, editing or maintaining content on a UCT website.

Delivered over four practical half-day sessions, the course covers everything you need to work confidently in UCT's Web Content Management System (Web CMS). You'll learn to navigate the Drupal platform, use the Workbench dashboard to create and edit content, manage images and documents, and apply UCT's web standards and best practices throughout.

This is a compulsory course — access to the Drupal platform is only granted once training is complete. Whether you're joining an existing web team or setting up a new site, this course gives you the foundation to manage your web presence with confidence.

Address for In Person sessions:

ICTS Training room 102.1
Level 1, Kramer Law building
UCT Middle Campus
Rondebosch

(online sessions are offered via Microsoft Teams)

Course content

• Navigate the Drupal platform and understand the role-based Web CMS structure
• Use the Workbench dashboard to create, edit and manage web content
• Add and format text using Drupal's content editor, applying UCT web standards
• Upload and manage images, documents and other media files
• Create and manage page structures including menus, sections and navigation
• Apply metadata and tagging to improve content findability
• Manage content workflows including draft, review and published states
• Understand UCT web policies and your responsibilities as a Content Manager

Who Should Attend

This course is for any UCT staff member who has been assigned a Content Manager role on a UCT website. This includes staff who are new to Drupal as well as those joining an existing web team. Attendance is compulsory — platform access is not granted until the course is complete.

Certification

On successful completion of this course, participants receive a UCT ICTS Certificate of Completion. Attendance at all four sessions is required. Participants who miss more than one session will not qualify for certification or platform access.

Cost and registration

• UCT staff (permanent and T1–T2 contractors): No cost - register via SuccessFactors
• UCT staff with third party accounts: No cost - register here (below)

Note:

• This course is available to UCT staff  and  UCT Third Parties only. External delegates are not eligible to attend.
• Students to act as Content Managers they need to be registered as a Third Party as per the UCT Web Content Policy. 

More Information

Read more: Drupal for Content Managers
Email: icts-training@uct.ac.za
Phone: +27 (0)21 650 5392