Drupal
April 16, 2020

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites.
http://drupal.org/about
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• The Grammy’s
• Popular Science Mag
• FastCompany Magazine
• Amherst College
• Men’s Health Magazine
• U of Arizona
• iVillage
• Harvard Science
• Lifetime Television
• Sony Music’s artist sites
• AOL Corporate
• Amnesty International
• The White House
• FedEx
• US Dept. of Education
• Today at Brown Univ.
• Universal Music
• SpreadFirefox.com
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• All editing can be done in a standard web browser. No special software needed.
• WYSIWYG features allow editors to create complex pages without knowing HTML.
• Theme system allows non-designers to build unique looking sites while complying with RIT web standards.
• Content changes can be tracked over time.
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• Modular, extensible system can support nearly any website’s needs.
• Drop-in ecommerce/event registration features.
• ITS maintains the software, applying patches and updates as necessary.
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• Drupal will be an option for developers of
“official” websites at RIT.
• Site owners have complete control of the look, feel, and functionality of their sites.
• Site owners manage who has access to their sites and to what degree.
• Access is controlled by RIT Computer Account.
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• Drupal runs in our existing web hosting environment.
• Drupal can be added “in parallel” to an existing site, allowing site owners/editors to move content into Drupal as time allows.
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• Drupal has a robust user roles system for managing site access.
• RIT has defined a set of default user roles for sites in our environment:
– Site administrator
– Site developer
– Content editor
– Content creator
– Authenticated user
– Anonymous user
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• Has full access to all features of the site.
• Can enable new modules, blocks, and themes.
• Can add PHP code to parts of the site to add functionality.
• Manages users and permissions and can create new roles as necessary.
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• Has all of the permissions of the site administrator except the user and role management fuctions.
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• Has access to create and edit content throughout the site.
• Does not have the ability to add additional functionality to the site or to manage users.
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• Can add new content to the site, but cannot publish it.
• Content added by content creators must be approved and published by a user with content editor or greater permissions.
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• By default, anyone with an RIT Computer
Account can log in to a site.
• Users who have not been added to a role receive authenticated user status.
• Authenticated users have very limited rights, such as the ability to contribute to discussions or post comments to news posts. They cannot modify content.
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• First round for Web developers only
• Dates and times
– Tuesday, March 30
• 1 – 3 pm
– Thursday, April 1
• 9 – 11 am
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• RIT Web Developers Site
– http://www.rit.edu/webdev/
• Drupal.org
– http://www.drupal.org
• Video Tutorials
– http://drupal.org/handbook/customization/videocasts
• Drupal Books
– http://drupal.org/books
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• Nelnet
– Mary Beth Nally
Director of Student Financial Services
MaryBeth.Nally@rit.edu
475-5305
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