WCMS update for March 2021

Coronavirus Information

For University announcements and updates related to COVID-19, please visit the COVID-19 Information website.

What’s happening with the WCMS?

WCMS 3.0 update

Check out the updated project timeline to follow all of the WCMS 3 updates!

• With the revised WCMS 3 launch date of June 29, 2021, we’ve updated the migration schedules shared in the Migrations channel on Teams.

• Information regarding the migration process, as well as some migration FAQs, can be found on the Building the Next WCMS website.

• Please continue to reach out with site deletion requests, website lead changes, team member additions to the Migrations channel.

• The Quality Assurance (QA) service offered by the Training and Support team will end on April 23, 2021. If you currently have a site on pilots on which you’d like a QA completed, the QA will need to be scheduled two weeks prior to April 23.

• Alpha 4 testing has begun. Please explore your testing site and report bugs or issues using the Alpha testing bug report form.

• The next WCMS 3 working sessions have been scheduled for April 6 and April 27.

WCMS course offerings

Classroom offerings of our WCMS courses will not be offered at this time. Anyone needing to complete the training can do so via LEARN.

Drop-in lab

We are back - virtually!

Have a question, or need some help with your website? A virtual Drop-in lab will be open every Thursday afternoon from 1-4 p.m. to provide WCMS content maintainers one-on-one website and training support.

Who’s new to the WCMS…

12 more sites have launched in the Waterloo Content Management System (WCMS) since our last update.

• A Decade of Impact
• Computational Mechanics Research Group
• Continuous Improvement and Change Management Community of Practice
• Emerging Energy Research Laboratory
• Fluid Flow Physics Group
• Healing Tattoos
• Innovation Arena (Single page)
• Philosophy Graduate Student Association
• Silicon Bioelectronics (SiBio) Laboratory
• Statistical Image Processing
• Thrive
• Valuing Canada’s Water Resources and Aquatic Ecosystem Services

New on Web Resources

Current development sprint:

• Quacker (Mar 16 - Apr 6)

Previous development sprints:

• Pink Panther (Feb 23 - Mar 16)
• Olaf (Feb 2 - Feb 23)

From the blog:

• WCMS Web Dev Rev wrap-ups
• WCMS updates