A well-structured blog isn’t just a standalone piece of content—it’s a powerful companion to your CMS website. When used strategically, blogs can drive traffic, enhance user experience, and improve your website’s search engine ranking. But how exactly do you integrate blogs effectively with your site?
Snippets are inserted into an Editable Region to create styled widgets. From the toolbar, click the Insert Snippet icon. 
Snippets can be added directly in the region or often nested within other snippets.
These snippets have been replaced with the H2|H3 Stylized Headings snippet.
This snippet has been replaced with the H2|H3 Stylized Headings Snippet.
To get access to Modern Campus CMS and receive training, the site’s web liaison should fill out the Modern Campus CMS Access Request Form.
For additional help, please email webmaster@mtu.edu.
There are three button colors that can be used in the CMS. They can easily be created when you set up your link or you can use the Buttons in a Row snippet to create multiple buttons in a row.
With a decentralized model for web maintenance at Michigan Tech, each department is responsible for creating and maintaining its own website within the University’s requirements. University Marketing and Communications provides a content management system (CMS) for many departments on campus along with several resources for using the CMS, web best practices and strategies, writing guidelines and standards, and brand management. There are also external sources available for further professional development.
Digital Services in University Marketing and Communications hosted a Digital Marketers Meeting every other month from 2016 until early 2025. The discussion focused on digital content production, best practices, and a setting to stay informed and plug into recruitment and reputation initiatives spearheaded by University Relations and Enrollment.
Many academic departments will link to a listing of departmental courses in Banner. The URL looks like:
https://www.banweb.mtu.edu/pls/owa/studev.stu_ctg_utils.p_display_class_facbio?ps_department=EE&PS_STYLE_DEPT=ece&ps_level=UG&ps_faculty=all
The URL includes several parameters that can be customized for each department.
Michigan Tech has been using a tool called Siteimprove to find various issues on Modern Campus CMS webpages. The system has the ability to send scheduled reports to people on a regular basis. UMC created a custom CMS Content Editors Dashboard listing several quality, accessibility, search engine optimization (SEO), and editorial issues in one place. While Siteimprove has many more reports available, the selected issues have been identified as within the control of departmental CMS editors. This Dashboard replaces the previously available separate Broken Links and Misspellings reports.
The CMS Content Editors Dashboard includes the following reports, subject to change at any time: