What is SUpal?
The unified web platform at Syracuse University is a collaborative initiative developed by the Division of Marketing and shared for use by the campus community. This platform enables schools, colleges, and units across the University to build and maintain accessible, secure, brand-aligned websites with little design or technical expertise required.
SUpal is built on the Drupal 11 platform. It offers a robust and user-friendly site-building experience that enables users to quickly create visually engaging, content-rich websites with minimal setup time.
The website solution (including hosting) is provided to the campus community at no charge.
Creating Value for Syracuse University
SUpal is designed and built with a focus on improving efficiency across the University. By using a centrally managed, configurable website platform, each team saves time and avoids the additional design, development, and hosting costs of building their own site. This approach allows schools, colleges, and units to maintain a unique online presence while ensuring a consistent, high-quality user experience across all Syracuse University digital touch points.
Features
- Flexible
- Secure
- Accessible
- Easily configurable components
- Easy-to-use interface
- Secured access using NetID and Single sign-on
- Free to use
- Service and hosting included
Technical Overview
- Based on Drupal 11
- Easily migrate content from WordPress
- Meets WCAG 2.2 accessibility requirements using its built in accessibility overlay.
- Drag and drop editing
- Image handling
- Search engine optimization
- Integration with the Localist campus calendar system and Kaltura video platform
- Mobile-ready
User Features
- Site managers have direct control over adding, modifying and deleting user accounts
- Workflows can be created for managing user access, editing and publishing processes
- Easy-to-use interfaces for editing content, adding images and uploading files
- Pre-configured page templates for content including standard pages, article/news/blog pages, profile pages, events and image galleries
- Display filtered content on a page, such as a list of “top stories,” “stories by type,” or people and events
- Web forms, including a simple feedback form, file upload feature and ability to auto-forward responses to a designated email inbox.
- Dynamic multi-tiered navigation
- Robust site search
- Ability to revert to earlier versions of pages
- Taxonomy systems that allow you to create complex categories and tags for sorting, filtering and collecting your data for viewing by site visitors, adding related content to pages