Overview
What is OU Campus?
OU Campus from OmniUpdate is billed as a CMS for institutions of higher education. It can be deployed as a cloud-based service or hosted locally. It is built in Java, uses open standards, and is extensible through APIs.
OU Campus for You
OU Campus is a great solution for websites in higher ed
An OU Campus is a happy campus
OU and Me
Great for content editors and content experts alike
When choosing a CMS for higher-ed, you cannot go wrong with OU Campus!
OU Campus - the best web CMS in the industry...
OU Campus Content Management System is a fantastic software for creating and maintaining web pages/web sites.
OU Campus
OUCampus rocks!
Popular Features
- Role-based user permissions (6)10.0100%
- WYSIWYG editor (6)9.292%
- Code quality / cleanliness (6)9.292%
- Admin section (6)9.292%
Pricing
What is OU Campus?
OU Campus from OmniUpdate is billed as a CMS for institutions of higher education. It can be deployed as a cloud-based service or hosted locally. It is built in Java, uses open standards, and is extensible through APIs.
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Features
Security
This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.
- 10Role-based user permissions(6) Ratings
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Platform & Infrastructure
Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.
- 8.6API(5) Ratings
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
- 10Internationalization / multi-language(4) Ratings
The software supports multiple languages, countries, currencies, etc.
Web Content Creation
Features that support the creation of website content.
- 9.2WYSIWYG editor(6) Ratings
What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editing tool allows users to build pages without writing code.
- 9.2Code quality / cleanliness(6) Ratings
Code generated by WYSIWYG editor is clean and validates according to W3C standards.
- 9.2Admin section(6) Ratings
The admin page is easy to navigate and use.
- 9.6Page templates(5) Ratings
The CMS has standard webpage templates or types of web pages (e.g. homepage, article page, interior page, blog page, etc.); users can also build custom templates.
- 10Library of website themes(2) Ratings
A library of website frameworks or themes is available as a starting point for building a website.
- 8.8Mobile optimization / responsive design(5) Ratings
The CMS helps users build webpages that work well on mobile devices – whether m-dot pages or responsively designed pages.
- 9.2Publishing workflow(6) Ratings
The software allows users to set up a custom workflow for updating the website, including approval processes.
- 6Form generator(3) Ratings
Users can build website forms for visitors to fill out.
Web Content Management
Features for managing website content
- 9.2Content taxonomy(6) Ratings
Users can create multiple levels and types of content categories including tags.
- 8SEO support(4) Ratings
The CMS helps users create the right website infrastructure (pagination, page headers, titles, meta tags, url structure, etc.) to increase the site’s visibility in search engine results.
- 8Bulk management(5) Ratings
Users can change an attribute on a group of documents or sites all at once through features such as global search and replace, making bulk changes easier.
- 9Availability / breadth of extensions(4) Ratings
There is a broad library of extensions, plug-ins, modules or add-ons that allow users to easily customize their websites without building custom code.
- 9.6Community / comment management(4) Ratings
Users can put post/page comments through an approval process, auto-approve commenters based on their email addresses, block commenters by IP address, delete comments, etc.
Product Details
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- Integrations
- Competitors
- Tech Details
- FAQs
What is OU Campus?
OU Campus from OmniUpdate is as an enterprise CMS platform
for institutions of higher education. It can be deployed as a cloud-based
service or hosted locally. It is built in Java, uses open standards, and is
extensible through APIs. It features a WYSIWYG toolbar with in-context
editing as well as source code editing, instant and scheduled publishing,
multi-channel output, mobile-accessibility for end users, asset management, and
so much more.
The vendor attributes the fast and responsive user interface to the HTML5 technology. Additionally, the vendor says that new page templates, and the drag-and-drop functionality make their platform extremely user friendly. OU Campus can integrate with other campus systems via REST-style APIs to solve digital marketing needs, including social media mashup, online course catalog, faculty directory, mobile website, calendar, email marketing, blogs, interactive campus map, cost calculator, and more. Its decoupled architecture provides flexibility and safeguards. Global find and replace presents a powerful search option when scouring code. Unlimited sites and sub-sites may be managed through OU Campus.
OU Campus Features
- Supported: Powerful Administration
- Supported: Streamlined Content
- Supported: User-Friendly Editing
- Supported: Reusable Content
- Supported: Quality Control
- Supported: Convenient Publishing
- Supported: Extensibility
- Supported: Effortless Syndication
OU Campus Screenshots
OU Campus Video
OU Campus Integrations
- Oracle PeopleSoft HCM
- Google Analytics
- Jenzabar Internet Campus Solution (JICS), discontinued
- Ellucian Banner/Colleague
- CurricUNET
- YouTube
OU Campus Competitors
OU Campus Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone |
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(14)Community Insights
- Business Problems Solved
OU Campus is a versatile content management system that has been widely adopted by our organization to update and manage the content for our entire university website. Users from various departments and colleges across campus utilize OU Campus to edit their respective web pages and manage web content. The primary interface of OU Campus is used by content contributors campus-wide to effectively manage their web page content. This has empowered users to take ownership of their web pages and ensure that the public website content remains fresh, relevant, and accurate.
One of the key advantages of using OU Campus is the significant decrease in the time it takes for new content to be published live on our website. The intuitive user interface and minimal learning curve make it accessible for non-technical users as well. Additionally, OU Campus offers excellent customer service with quick and effective responses to user questions, which has been greatly appreciated by our campus community.
Another use case of OU Campus is its ability to create links for professors, faculty, staff, and community members to access department information. It also allows for quick uploading of materials to the web, saving time in creating and updating web content. However, one limitation of OU Campus is the inability to upload the same document without changing the original document name.
Overall, OU Campus has proven to be a valuable platform for managing web pages and content across our entire organization. Its scalability, user-friendliness, extensive documentation, and time-saving capabilities make it an essential tool for content management throughout our campus community.
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(1-10 of 10)OU Campus for You
- User-friendly editing.
- Handle a large number of decentralized users, while being incredibly fast and easy to use.
- CMS server separably from the content. So your website is live!!
- Multiple browser previews. Slow and not always accurate.
- Nice to have option to update from mobile.
OU Campus is a great solution for websites in higher ed
- Able to be customized
- Easy to use/update
- Quick response from tech support
- Easier to make certain images mobile responsive
- Simplified user interface
An OU Campus is a happy campus
- The JustEdit feature makes updating content a breeze. With a small staff, we rely on others to update their content. OU Campus makes it easy.
- Site-wide find and replace. I use the site-wide find and replace feature for all sorts of things - links, enrollment numbers, department names. It's really helpful.
- Customer service. The staff at OU Campus answers questions quickly and is always willing to discuss the most effective ways to take on new projects.
- Multiple browser previews. The browser/os preview seemed like a feature we could really use, but it is slow and not always accurate.
- Forms. The form builder lacks some advanced features, like captcha, but they are updating the form builder.
- Mobile access. As of now, OU Campus doesn't allow for users to log in from a mobile device. I don't want to update websites from my phone, but it would be nice to have access to some features on the go.
OU and Me
- Instructions for OU Campus are clearly defined
- I am able to publish small corrections myself without having to send it to another approver.
- I still struggle with uploading documents to the system.
Great for content editors and content experts alike
- Assets are easily managed and can be edited independently of the page they exist on.
- Version history is handled well. Allows for a comment section to note what changes have been made.
- Dependency tags are perfect for media that is used in several places. Upload a photo once, use it in multiple places, edit the photo or its description in one place.
- Formatting. The page can sometimes look very differently when published than what it looks like while editing. Some improvements have been made in this area with version 10 however.
- Find and replace. The command+F needs to find text on the page while editing, not present an actual find and replace dialog box. At least give me the option to simply "find" the text I'm looking for. The dialog box just gets in the way most of the time.
- There is not a way to "unpublish" items. At least not a way that I can think of. I would like the ability to pull a page offline without deleting it. Seems like it should be done simpler.
- OU Campus is quite simply a very easy product to manage and maintain for our users across campus.
- The easy-to-use interface makes using the product easy. As the administrator for OU Campus, I can set up user access and preferences according to user knowledge and expertise.
- Using OU Campus daily gives us the ability to keep our website up-to-date with quick access and easy usability.
- With version 10 of OU Campus, OmniUpdate has continued to grow and expand according to user needs.
OU Campus - the best web CMS in the industry...
- SIMPLE TO USE - non-technical users of the product learn the functions and features easily, and they continue to use OU Campus on a regular basis.
- PLATFORM-AGNOSTIC & NOTHING TO INSTALL - OU Campus can be connected to anything that can be accessed via FTP, and that content can be managed through a web browser.
- ENTERPRISE-LEVEL SOLUTION - content can be repurposed to multiple outputs (mobile, PDF, CSV, HTML) in a single step, OU Campus has site-wide dependency management tools built-in. Web-based image editor is built-in. Simple to multi-step workflow and content scheduling (publishing/expiring content) is built-in. Web content snippets (bits of code) as well as digital 'assets' management (images, scripts, code sections, data, etc.) is built-into OU Campus. Site export and ZIP Import (with auto-extraction) is built-into OU Campus.
- OUTSTANDING CUSTOMER SERVICE - If you ever need a question answered, OmniUpdate's support team is second to none. My experience over the past 8 years has been that I get a response within the business day (and typically within an hour).
- I used to have an issue with the 'Browse...' button on the initial 'Insert/Edit Link' interface, but that's already been fixed/resolved/improved.
- I think the reporting interface could use a facelift - at this point you can pull out CSV files and manipulate them in Excel (which works well), but providing something more visual for displaying system-wide data/reporting would be great (I believe there is something in version 10 that addresses this, but we're not yet migrated over to that version).
- I think a visual template editor (with drag-and-drop capabilities) would be a great addition to this product. Something that allows for reshaping CSS DIVs, drag-and-drop of page elements (in HTML5/CSS3 and/or for XSL functions).
OU Campus Content Management System is a fantastic software for creating and maintaining web pages/web sites.
- Very easy to create and maintain web pages.
- Very intuitive interface.
- Easy to teach non-tech people how to use it.
- Users love it.
- Better integration of JavaScript debugging.
- Better integration for dynamic web content.
OU Campus
- I love that fact that whenever I upload something, it is available to the community members within a matter of seconds.
- OU Campus could use some improving on their upload changes as far as naming the document because when you are trying to upload the same document with minor revisions, OU Campus requires you to change the name of the document within OU Campus which creates multiple documents in the workfolder.
- When naming documents to upload into OU Campus, it would be nice if we could name out documents the way we would instead of having to put an underscore to indicate a space in the document. Most users of OU Campus has not had proper training to know that you need to do that.
OUCampus rocks!
- Easy to use.
- Intuitive.
- Consistency across users.
- File structure was sometimes confusing; assets not filed intuitively.
- Content migration didn't always flow across from old system to OUCampus seamlessly.