OpenEDU - A Drupal 8 Distribution to Jumpstart Higher Education Websites

AND TRINITY UNIVERSITY

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Agenda

1) About Us: Intro to Trinity University, ImageX and

Acquia in Higher Ed

2) OpenEDU Overview and Demo

3) Panel Q&A

4) Audience Q&A

Meet the Panel

● Jeanna Goodrich Balreira - Associate Director for Creative Services,

Trinity University

● John Kennedy - Product Leader, Open Source; Acquia

● Bjorn Thomson - EDU Practice Director, ImageX

● Kevin Hu - VP, Technology; ImageX

Trinity University is a liberal arts and sciences

institution in San Antonio, Texas

● ~2,400 students: 2,250 undergraduates and

150 graduate students

● ~29,000 Tiger alumni worldwide

● Moved to Drupal 7 / Acquia in August 2013

as part of a complete site redesign and

content overhaul

● Adopted OpenEDU in February 2015,

specifically for a set of customizable site

templates for faculty, staff, and student

organizations.

● Founded in 2001

● Offices in Vancouver, Canada & Kiev, Ukraine

● Over 300+ web initiatives launched

● End-to-end consulting, design and development

agency

● Specialized EDU project team

IMAGEX INTRODUCTIONAbout ImageX and Team

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→ Over 550 higher education clients –

including UVA, George Mason,

Georgetown, UMD, and UMich

→ Dedicated team started in 2013 and

broadened in 2014 to work strategically

with institutions

→ Acquia’s oldest and a key strategic

vertical (Bentley was our first customer

in 2007)

→ Many of Acquia’s team have deep

backgrounds in higher education

Acquia in Higher Ed

OpenEDU Background

● Originally released on Drupal 7 in 2015

● Re-architected for Drupal 8

● D8 version a collaboration between ImageX & Acquia

● Acquia ran a survey of over 100 EDUs in 2016

● Formed a steering committee of 15 universities

● Development priorities validated through committee and customer

interviews

● ImageX secured a grant to fund OpenEDU from the Industrial Research

Assistance Program

About OpenEDUOpenEDU is a preconfigured version of Drupal 8 designed for higher

education

1.Out of the box theme with options relevant to industry, higher-ed based IA

and navigation structure

2.EDU-based core components such as faculty profiles, programs, courses,

testimonials (and many more to come...)

3.Leverages Acquia Lightning’s functionality for enterprise authoring

including editorial workflow, layout and media handling

What it does

1.Theme, IA, and site structure is out of the box a high-end higher

education website, including sample content

2.Easy & fast editorial control over most areas of the site

○ Editorial experience designed for non-technical stakeholders

○ Power users provided with a second interface for easy customization

3.EDU thought leaders responsible for upkeep, as well as significant

continued investment

OpenEDU Demo

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What goals does a university have for

digital experience?

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What makes Drupal 8 the best platform

for higher education institutions?

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What’s new in OpenEDU D8?

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What problems/use cases does OpenEDU

solve?

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How much can a university expect to save

from using OpenEDU vs a standard

Drupal 8 installation?

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What does using OpenEDU now mean for

our website’s future?

OPEN FLOOR

Thank You