Modern Campus Content Management System

Showcase your school with a strategic CMS.

Meet Modern Campus CMS, a robust and flexible content management system (CMS) tailored to meet the unique needs of higher education. Intentionally designed to address the priorities of higher ed audiences, Modern Campus CMS features built-in efficiencies for personalization, accessibility, analytics, and more. Partner with Beacon's expert team of project managers, strategists, and developers to leverage Modern Campus CMS and transform your institution's website. The result? A dynamic, user-friendly platform that engages students and empowers your content creators to deliver exceptional digital experiences.

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Modern Campus CMS for higher education.

With Modern Campus CMS, we help your institution create a personalized, mobile-first web experience that drives student recruitment, fosters faculty engagement, strengthens alumni relations, and enhances connection among the campus community. Here's a few reasons why we believe Modern Campus CMS outperforms open-sourced solutions that lack that the same commitment to higher education:

User-Friendly for Audiences & Content Owners

Managing a website shouldn’t require advanced technical skills. Modern Campus CMS offers an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface that empowers non-technical users to update content effortlessly—no extensive development resources required. Sound too good to be true? Managing a redesign or CMS migration is quite the undertaking, but rest assured your experienced Beacon project manager will serve as your consistent point of contact and liaison to Modern Campus, ensuring milestones are met and your goals are achieved.

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Impactful Personalization

Modern Campus CMS leverages advanced user data and behavior tracking to deliver personalized content to site visitors based on their interests, location, and engagement with your institution. Even if your team lacks the resources to manage a personalization strategy, Beacon has you covered. Our strategists will develop content hierarchies and plans informed by in-depth research into your analytics and site behavior, ensuring every interaction is driven by real audience insights.

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Responsive Design & Mobile Optimization

Today's audiences demand a seamless experience across all devices. With Modern Campus CMS, your website is designed to be mobile-first and fully responsive, ensuring an optimized experience for smartphones, tablets, and desktops alike. Beacon's design team is hyper-focused on delivering responsive designs that maintain both visual appeal and usability across all screen sizes without compromise.

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Third-Party Integrations

Integrating your website with key campus systems is essential for delivering a unified digital experience. Modern Campus CMS seamlessly connects with your technology ecosystem, ensuring your website works in harmony with existing IT tools and infrastructure. Backed by decades of experience, Beacon has successfully managed countless integrations. You can trust our team to provide solutions that align with industry best practices and your institution’s unique needs.

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Collaboration & Workflow Management

Modern Campus CMS offers customizable workflows and approval processes, enabling collaboration across departments without sacrificing quality controls. Is your institution dealing with writer's block? Pass Beacon the pen. Our team crafts fresh, ready-to-use content and provides guidance on governance best practices.

Hassle-free content solutions

Accessibility & Compliance

Accessibility isn’t just a best practice—it’s the law. Beacon’s strategy and design teams ensure that every delivered asset meets accessibility standards while preserving your brand’s integrity. With Modern Campus CMS, achieving compliance is seamless. Built to meet ADA and WCAG standards automatically, the platform helps your institution minimize risk and deliver an inclusive digital experience for every visitor.

Our portfolio

Award-winning websites that work for your audience.

From community colleges and specialized art and trade schools to large research universities, we’ve designed websites for every corner of higher education during our 25+ years of combined experience. With Modern Campus CMS built specifically for higher education, our clients gain a tailored solution that elevates website management and marketing to new heights. Explore our latest projects and discover how we’ve helped institutions worldwide upgrade their online presence.

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Meet the founders of Modern Campus CMS.

Having worked in partnership with Modern Campus for nearly a decade, Beacon sees it as one of the top content management systems for higher education. As such, we collaborate regularly for support and to continuously improve the software, since both companies are primarily focused on serving the needs of colleges and universities. This relationship creates a synergy that drives results and long-term confidence, so our clients benefit from having both a strong software vendor and a proven web design and development partner.

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