Manage hundreds of academic websites with ease
Discover why CloudCannon is the best CMS for higher education. Empower content teams with intuitive editing, while granting developers and designers precise control.
CloudCannon is a headless CMS powered by Git and your favorite static site generator
CloudCannon gives our developers total control over our websites while giving the content team an easy-to-use interface.
A content management system that developers and editors enjoy
Content ownership
With a Git-based CMS, you own your content and code. Don't worry about vendor lock-in, backups or exports — you'll have complete data portability and a history of all content and code changes.
Visual editing
Anyone in your institution can make changes with a visual editing interface and see changes on the page in real time. Content teams can build their own pages with a custom library of component blocks.
Manage multiple websites
Update common site components and shared layouts with CloudCannon's site mounting feature. Your development team can make changes to hundreds of sites at once, while ensuring design and brand consistency.
Review live preview sites
Your content editors can share live preview URLs for review, eliminating the need to set up a new domain and simplifying the feedback process.
Centralize your assets
Your team can access approved and optimized assets within your Digital Asset Management provider connected to CloudCannon.
Fine-tune your team permissions
Customize CloudCannon's permissions to match your college's organizational structure and workflows. Set permissions and build user groups to control who can view, edit, and publish content and pages.
Try CloudCannon with our university starter template
Built for large educational institutions to test visual editing on a familiar homepage. Add new components from the supplied library, and use any of the code as a reference for your own project.
Security
CloudCannon is SOC 2 Type 2 certified. Your data is safe with SAML and SSO authentication.
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Translations
Multilingual support helps you attract international audiences to your website. Multilingual support can be set up so that your content teams can easily edit pages in multiple languages, all from a single file.
Migration & development services
Our migration and success team is ready to help, chat to us about migrating and setting your organization up for success.
Get the edge with hosting
Choose to host externally with another provider. Or deploy your sites on modern global infrastructure, without setting up a single server.
An SEO boost for your content
Built for static websites, CloudCannon ensures your website is fast, secure and high-performing. With a static site generator, web pages load faster and SEO rankings improve.
Talk to us about how you can manage your educational website
We’re happy to discuss how CloudCannon can help you meet your institutional policies, including your responsibilities around site accessibility and long-term stability, and archiving your site content.