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Drupal training and support

Website editors need to complete training in advance of being granted editorial access to the relevant Drupal website.

Drupal 7 and 10 training

Individuals should discuss their editorial needs with the relevant Drupal website owner prior to getting enrolled into training.

Training and resources are available for both Drupal 7 and Drupal 10 websites.

Drupal 7

This training includes essential and advanced training in video format as well as the inclusive content training:

Topics covered

Essential training

Includes:

  • the CMS interface​
  • roles and permissions
  • creating different content types and publishing
  • adding pages to and editing the menu​
  • the text editor, formatting and links and adding images and files​
  • password protection​
  • dynamic content – tagging and feeds​.
Advanced training

Includes:

  • optimising landing pages​
  • dynamic content – getting the most from tagging and feeds​
  • web best practice and compliance​
  • images: legal requirements ​
  • web Accessibility​, CMA guidance and copyright 
  • writing for the web​
  • GDPR considerations​
  • SEO and web writing​
  • user experience​
Inclusive content training

The inclusive content training focuses on web accessibility and quality assurance and how to ensure your content is compliant with accessibility requirements. The training covers:

  • web accessibility and its importance
  • current issues on UCL websites 
  • how to address accessibility and quality assurance issues on your site 
  • how to create inclusive content with quality and readability in mind.

Don’t forget to fill out the feedback form on the Teams site after you finish the training - this will help us to make improvements to the site and offer the best training resources possible.

    Guides

    Step by step guidance to help you to edit and create new content:

    Drupal 10

    Bespoke sessions are currently being run post-launch. These are scheduled on an ad-hoc basis.

    If a website has launched in Drupal 10, please do contact your Drupal website owner to discuss.

    Once agreed, the website owner will refer the trainees to the Digital Experience (DX) Support team, who will then invite them to join the relevant training session.

    Guides