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CMS Design & Implementation (Autumn 2022)

IT394-IT395
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DePaul University
DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Michael Chase
Instructor
(3)
3
Timeline
  • September 7, 2022
    Experience start
  • March 16, 2022
    Final Week of Class - Final Presentation
  • December 23, 2022
    Experience end
Experience
1/3 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Startup, Social Enterprise, Non profit, Small to medium enterprise, Family-Owned
Any industries
Categories
Information technology Product or service launch Humanities Education
Skills
web development agile methodologies search engine optimization (seo) content management research
Learner goals and capabilities

Student-consultants will design and implement a content management system (CMS) to help you effectively manage your online content.

For more details about our class, please follow this link and review a series of informational documents about our class:

Link to DePaul Capstone (IT394-IT395) Documents

Learners
Undergraduate
Any level
16 learners
Project
120 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Teams of 6
Expected outcomes and deliverables

Students will provide your organization with a fully-functioning content management website.

Final deliverables include:

  • A team charter.
  • A product vision board.
  • Agile Scrum artifacts: Backlogs, User stories (ACC), and acceptance criteria.
  • Test plans and test results (expected and actual)
  • Feature Analysis Reports (AKA: Gap Analysis) with recommendations: Used for selecting CMS extensions (Plugins and Themes)
  • Training documentation: Document type determined by client.
  • A plugin and module lists.
  • Weekly status reports.
  • Weekly agendas and meeting minutes.
Project timeline
  • September 7, 2022
    Experience start
  • March 16, 2022
    Final Week of Class - Final Presentation
  • December 23, 2022
    Experience end
Project Examples

Starting Fall 2022 a group of 3-7 student-consultants will spend 25 hours per student (125 hours per team) working with your organization to recommend and implement a content management system (CMS) that best fits your needs. They will also provide training and reference materials, enabling your team to keep the site updated and organized.

Due to COVID we are experiencing a reduction in the number of students taking our capstone class. Because of this we are limiting the number clients to three. In the event that we do nto have students to staff three client projects we may be forced to cancel 1 or more projects. We hope that if you are serious about with us you will keep in contact with us during the year. We need to know if you have to cancel as soon as possible so we can find and collaborate with other clients. To that end we want to establish lines of direct communication (email and phone) and check in with each other frequently before the project starts in the fall.

Our student project teams use the Agile project management technology and knowledge gained from their computing and digital media courses, the student-consultants to work with you to design and implement an effective CMS website.

Please refer to the link below for past projects and clients.

Link to DePaul Capstone (IT394-IT395) Documents

Example benefits include, but are not limited to:

  • Updating, modernizing, and or redesigning your website
  • Improving search engine optimization (SEO)
  • Improving your website security

Students may use the following CMS systems, based on your requirements:

  • Drupal
  • WordPress
  • Squarespace
  • Weebly
  • Wix

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

The client makes the decisions. It is the students responsibility to do the research and provide analysis and recommendation for website extensions, such as plugins, themes, and JavaScript libraries.

Be available to work with the students to review their weekly sprint results and provide timely quality feedback to the team.

Provide a dedicated contact who will be available to answer periodic zoom, emails or phone calls over the duration of the project to address student’s questions or provide additional information.

This class employs the Agile methodology, which favors communication over documentation. Therefore, the student teams will communicate with you at least once a week by zoom, email or phone.