Weekly Web Updates – October 24, 2016

New! Instructors can now provision Google Apps folder via the Course Hub.Google Apps folders in Course Hub

We have added the Sydney WordPress theme as a theme option. We removed the Trevilian way theme, which was not in use and had a few issues.

Updates

Fixes and Tweaks

  • When you see the “Authorization Required” message on forms.middlebury.edu or forms.miis.edu, the page title will now match the title of the page you were trying to reach.
  • The Sustainability site now has drop-down menus for its top navigation.
  • The Online Donor Roll is now displaying information from FY 2017. Additionally, donor names are only printed once on each list.
  • Updated the destination of the Bread Loaf School of English inquiry form.
  • Links in the “Related Links” section of news stories on the Middlebury Drupal site will now open in a new window or tab.
  • The “Faculty” link in the Middlebury School of the Environment site navigation will now read “People”.

Ongoing Work

  • Building out the configuration of our CAS, GO, MediaWiki, and Course Catalog servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal and WordPress environments.
  • Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
  • Populating mailing lists in the MyEmma email system from Banner.
  • Providing Course Hub access for Schools Abroad courses.