Coronavirus on Campus: 7 Ways to Use Your CMS as a Super Tool for Crisis Management

Is your college or university prepared to meet the challenges that come with disasters and emergencies?

As if wildfires, polar vortexes, tornadoes, and hurricanes weren’t enough to disrupt business as usual, the world is now grappling with COVID-19, or Coronavirus. No doubt your college or university has developed a crisis plan of some sort, but there’s no better time than now to make sure you have the tools in place to help your campus stay safe. Remember, knowledge is power and in many cases, it can be a lifesaver.

Delve into the ways a powerful, flexible, and scalable CMS can help you disseminate messaging, update your audience, educate students and faculty about crisis concerns, and keep them safe.

Knowing that our team at OmniUpdate can be just as affected by potential threats, we put together this white paper to explain how you can better leverage your content management system (CMS) as a super tool to wield when dealing with the pending disaster and aftermath of campus crises.

In this white paper, you'll learn how to:

  • Implement the three Bs of crisis planning.
  • Craft messaging that is helpful, empathetic, and direct.
  • Develop a microsite or designated web pages for crisis management.
  • Deploy Emergency Alerts that advertise ways to learn more.
  • Use email and social media to disseminate information.
  • Leverage the cloud for your website and CMS.

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Choosing the Right Campus CMS

Every great college or university deserves a great content management system.

In fact, every higher education institution needs a great web content management system (CMS)—it’s no less essential than a student information or learning management system. Without a CMS—or with one that’s a bad fit—you’ll find it increasingly difficult to realize recruiting goals and deliver the online experience your audiences expect.

This white paper offers a sample needs assessment for evaluating a CMS for a higher ed institution and typical areas of overspending that can occur.

What's covered in this white paper:

  • General explanation of a web content management system
  • Factors that should inform your CMS selection decision
  • Specific CMS features to consider
  • How to get started after you've made your selection

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The Complete Guide to Digital Accessibility Compliance for Colleges and Universities

Is an OCR letter in your school's future?

To avoid legal action from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, it’s time to make sure that all pages on your college or university’s website meet accessibility guidelines for all people—and that means anyone who has a disability.

But how do you go about implementing such a broad, complex rule?

In this white paper, you'll learn:

  • Background on accessibility laws.
  • What’s new in WCAG 2.1.
  • What is Universal Design for Learning.
  • Accessibility best practices.
  • How to develop a long-term digital accessibility plan.
  • 5 steps to solve common accessibility issues now.
  • Tools and resources to help your site become and stay accessible.

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Testing Essentials for the Age of Agile

According to Atlassian, 80% of all software organizations now practice a form of agile. However, three quarters of enterprises and over half of technology firms do not concurrently test code during sprints, causing bottlenecks in the release process.

Many companies have begun to invest in automation to fill the gaps, but it still only accounts for 15% of software testing. Watch the webinar to discover the essential steps in mastering an automation strategy and how to keep up with the demands of agile development, saving you valuable time and resources.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

  • How to build a cost-effective QA strategy for agile development.
  • The essential steps to get started with test automation and how to accelerate the process.
  • When to use automation vs. manual testing and how to find the right balance.
  • Agile best practices and pitfalls to avoid.

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Testing Essentials for the Age of Agile

According to Atlassian, 80% of all software organizations now practice a form of agile. However, three quarters of enterprises and over half of technology firms do not concurrently test code during sprints, causing bottlenecks in the release process.

Many companies have begun to invest in automation to fill the gaps, but it still only accounts for 15% of software testing. Watch the webinar to discover the essential steps in mastering an automation strategy and how to keep up with the demands of agile development, saving you valuable time and resources.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

  • How to build a cost-effective QA strategy for agile development.
  • The essential steps to get started with test automation and how to accelerate the process.
  • When to use automation vs. manual testing and how to find the right balance.
  • Agile best practices and pitfalls to avoid.

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Essential Guide To Agile Testing

The speed and adaptability of agile development is no longer a competitive advantage - it is a requirement. According to Atlassian, 80% of all software organizations now practice agile.

In spite of this need for agile, running an effective process remains rare. The rapid nature of agile often forces developers to choose between functionality and quality. But, you don’t need to. All you need to do is adjust your approach to testing.

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Is The QA Lab Dead?

The traditional QA lab cannot keep up with the demands of modern software development, unable to keep pace with developer speeds, cover the necessary level of devices and real-life use cases, and account for the entirety of an omnichannel experience.

Many organizations are opening their pockets to resolve these inefficiencies, but money alone won’t solve a traditional lab’s shortcomings. To succeed, organizations must adopt a new philosophy around QA.

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3 Ways Your Users’ Feedback can Boost Your Bottom Line

With so many competing apps and websites offering comparable products and services, the battleground on which brands compete has shifted away from what they are providing, to how they are providing it.

Leveraging user feedback early and often across the entire software development lifecycle guarantees the user experience you are providing reflects the same high level of quality you’ve established with your products and services. When you can differentiate your brand through your user experience - and improve your teams’ efficiency - your bottom line will reap the benefits.

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3 Ways Your Users’ Feedback can Boost Your Bottom Line

With so many competing apps and websites offering comparable products and services, the battleground on which brands compete has shifted away from what they are providing, to how they are providing it. Leveraging user feedback early and often across the entire software development lifecycle guarantees the user experience you are providing reflects the same high level of quality you’ve established with your products and services. When you can differentiate your brand through your user experience, and improve your teams’ efficiency, your bottom line will reap the benefits.

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Is The QA Lab Dead?

The traditional QA lab cannot keep up with the demands of modern software development, unable to keep pace with developer speeds, cover the necessary level of devices and real-life use cases, and account for the entirety of an omnichannel experience.

Many organizations are opening their pockets to resolve these inefficiencies, but money alone won’t solve a traditional lab’s shortcomings. To succeed, organizations must adopt a new philosophy around QA.

View Now

Essential Guide To Agile Testing

The speed and adaptability of agile development is no longer a competitive advantage - it is a requirement. According to Atlassian, 80% of all software organizations now practice agile.

In spite of this need for agile, running an effective process remains rare. The rapid nature of agile often forces developers to choose between functionality and quality. But, you don’t need to. All you need to do is adjust your approach to testing.

View Now