Wagtail for Education
Why Wagtail is a top choice for leading academic institutions
Open source content management systems (CMS) like Wagtail help address key challenges faced by academic institutions and higher education, such as budget constraints, security, and making content accessible for people with a wide variety of needs. Here are just a few of the ways Wagtail helps support the academic mission of colleges, universities, and other schools:
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Empowers content makers
Wagtail has an extremely user-friendly interface that makes it easier for people with minimal technical knowledge to create and manage content on their websites.
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Designed for teams
Wagtail offers many of the same features more expensive proprietary solutions offer for facilitating content collaboration between team members, including version control, content locking, editorial workflows, and customizable user groups and permissions.
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Centers accessibility
The Wagtail CMS project is committed to making Wagtail one of the leading options for publishing, maintaining, and consuming content in an accessible manner. Our software comes with built-in accessibility tools, like an accessibility checker for editors, that help content teams make all aspects of their website from the code to the content as accessible as possible.
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Strong security
Wagtail incorporates the best practices of the Django project to ensure websites built on Wagtail are protected from some of the most common attacks. Additionally, Wagtail offers built-in reports and a robust user permission system to help governments optimize their website security.
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Built with open source
As an open source project built with Python, one of the fastest growing and most well-supported programming languages, Wagtail CMS offers academic institutions and universities a level of code transparency that proprietary solutions can't offer.
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Scalable and flexible
Wagtail can grow and adapt along your school's needs, whether you need to manage a few pages of content or several thousand pages of content. Because Wagtail is open source and you have full control over the code, you will also have more flexibility to change hosts or vendors and seek out the best technology partners for your school.
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Multisite capabilities
If you have different departments or schools with different website needs, Wagtail's multisite capabilities can help. You can manage all of your websites in one place while giving each group the freedom they need to make their website work best for them.
Academic institutions that chose Wagtail CMS
Why colleges and universities love Wagtail
It has now been almost six months since we migrated to Wagtail, and in that time we have launched a new homepage design, two new campaigns focused on student achievement and a new academic program selector application—a feat that would have been impossible to do had we still been using WordPress.
Aimee Maroney, Syracuse University
We moved from a stack that frequently made our jobs harder, to one that, four years on, we are still excited about. Wagtail empowers us to craft beautiful, responsive, accessible websites that are a breeze for content workers to administer and painless for developers to maintain. At Berkeley, we’ve found Wagtail to be a technology that’s quite easy to love.
Matthew Newton, University of California, Berkeley
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