Communications Bulletins

To help make it easier to create documents for the web that meet accessibility requirements, we've begun a campus-wide subscription to the Grackle Docs plugin for Google Docs.

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The webteam would like to give you a quick heads-up about some new features coming to Office pages in Drupal. The updates will arrive in two phases. You will start seeing updates in the next few days to the “edit” page for your Office home page.

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Four years ago this spring, the webteam launched a major overhaul of Oberlin’s public website that involved both a move to a new platform (from DotCMS to Drupal) and a complete redesign....

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As many other systems at Oberlin have done, the Drupal content management system soon will begin using Okta single sign-on for authentication.

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Planning a virtual event? Please use the Oberlin Events Calendar (calendar.oberlin.edu) to invite campus and community members to your event. 

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When you embed text in an image, the information is inaccessible to many people with disabilities. Instead, always keep text separate from images.

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If you use a computer in your job, it’s inevitable that you’ve read PDF files, and there’s a good chance you’ve created them, too.

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The webteam has recently refocused our efforts to make the website accessible to everyone, regardless of disability.

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The webteam has created a new Drupal content type that departments and offices can use for announcements and news on their websites. It’s called “Department/Office Bulletin” and it’s available to editors of academic department and administrative office sites.

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