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WCMS

Help and support

Indiana University's Web Content Management System (WCMS) is a web application called Cascade CMS by Hannon Hill. The WCMS is a web development environment that publishes static web content to the web hosting environment of your choice. The WCMS is provided free-of-charge to all IU departments, faculty, staff, and student groups who have a full-time faculty or staff administrative sponsor.

WCMS Guides

  • Getting started

    Steps to complete prior to requesting a WCMS site

  • Creating and deleting content

    The steps required for setting up templates and creating content, and deleting content

  • Publishing

    Steps for setting up destinations, and publishing your site to a web server

  • Roles and access

    Information about different user roles and granting access

  • Workflows

    Information about creating and using workflows

Support options

Web Services Support (sct2@iu.edu) supports Indiana University's Web Content Management System, Cascade CMS, when it is not functioning as intended.

Office hours

The WCMS team will hold monthly office hours to assist users and answer questions. Please join us on Zoom (https://iu.zoom.us/j/86419486190) the second Tuesday of every month from 2:30-3:30pm.

IU Web Framework

The IU Web Framework, created by IU Studios (formerly IU Communications), is not supported by the WCMS Administrators nor Web Services Support. Learn more about IU Web Framework.

Community Support

The Web Community of Practices exists as a model for connecting people with interests in web design, development, and management at Indiana University. Learn more about the Web Community of Practice

Paid Support

The Creative and Web Studio offers project-based services to IU campuses, schools, and departments. Contact them for help with your project.

Policies

WCMS policies are covered in the WCMS Terms of Use in the KB.

Additional resources