Office of Communications
Communications Bulletins
Drupal 10 Migration Complete
The Drupal upgrade process was completed on Monday, June 23, and oberlin.edu is now live on Drupal 10.
A few things to note:
- The editing pause is complete; campus users are free to resume updating...
Drupal Upgrade and Editing Pause June 11–23, 2025
The migration to of our main website to Drupal 10 begins tomorrow, June 11, and the upgrade will go live June 23. If you are not a Drupal editor or have no plans to make any updates in the next few...
Drupal Unavailable December 6 & 7
Update
If you see a gray box instead of a red box on the backend/admin pages, you are on the new system! Please let us know if you run into any issues, webteam@oberlin.edu.
A “content freeze” will...
Updates to Oberlin Logos and More, with New Resources Available
The Office of Communications has developed a new visual identity system that refreshes Oberlin’s longtime logo, colors, and other essential brand elements and offers a suite of new resources to...
Publicize your events with the Oberlin College Events Calendar
One of the things that makes Oberlin such a great place is all the cool stuff that’s happening all around us. To help make these events more visible to the campus and wider communities, the Office of...
Making Your Google Docs Accessible
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.
Drupal update: New features coming to Office pages
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.
Website Design Refresh and Drupal Theme Update
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. This week we...
Drupal Web CMS Moving to Single Sign-on
As many other systems at Oberlin have done, the Drupal content management system soon will begin using Okta single sign-on for authentication.
Tips for Submitting a Virtual Event
Planning a virtual event? Please use the Oberlin Events Calendar (calendar.oberlin.edu) to invite campus and community members to your event.