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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.

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CloudCannon is a headless CMS powered by Git and your favorite static site generator

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CloudCannon gives our developers total control over our websites while giving the content team an easy-to-use interface.
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A content management system that developers and editors enjoy

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Migration services

Migrate your existing website content and structure to CloudCannon with minimal disruption. Our team handles the technical aspects, so you can focus on creating engaging content.

Dedicated support

Benefit from the expertise of our support and success team. We'll work closely with you to ensure a smooth transition and help you unlock the full potential of CloudCannon.

Maximize your impact

From content organization to user-friendly editing, we'll optimize your website for success after migration. Gain valuable insights and leverage CloudCannon's features to elevate your online presence.

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.

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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.