Provus®EDU

One command. A complete higher-ed website. No blank canvas. No regrets.

Provus®EDU is a Drupal CMS recipe that installs a complete, production-ready higher education website — content types, views, menus, theme, and configuration — in a single command. It is purpose-built for colleges, universities, and community colleges that need enrollment-focused digital experiences without requiring extensive custom development before they can demo something real.

A Drupal recipe is a repeatable configuration snapshot: a precise set of modules, content types, and settings that get applied to your Drupal instance once and leave no recipe-specific overhead behind. Think of it as a blueprint that builds the house, then gets out of the way. Provus®EDU is that blueprint — tuned over 20+ years of building production higher-ed Drupal sites for institutions including Portland State University, SIU School of Medicine, and dozens of community colleges and state universities.

Built by Promet Source, a Drupal specialist agency with deep roots in higher education and public sector digital. Promet offers implementation, design, migration, accessibility remediation, and ongoing support for institutions adopting Provus®EDU.

What This Recipe Installs

Running the Provus®EDU recipe configures the following on a fresh Drupal CMS instance:

Content Architecture

• Program & Course Pages — Structured content types for degree programs: degree name, level (associate / bachelor's / master's / certificate), credit hours, concentrations, curriculum requirements, department hierarchy, and application CTA. The single most important content type on any enrollment-focused higher-ed site — pre-built and ready to populate.
• Faculty Directory — Faculty profile content type with filterable listings: name, title, department, research areas, contact, office hours, and bio. Includes the directory view with exposed filters by department and title. Your comms team stops managing faculty bios in a Word document the day this installs.
• News & Announcements — News content type with publish date, categories, author, and teaser image. Listing view with category filter and archive. RSS feed compatible. Drupal Planet syndication ready.
• Events & Academic Calendar — Events content type with start/end datetime, location, event type taxonomy, and registration link field. Calendar listing and iCal/Google Calendar export support.
• Student Testimonials — Structured testimonial component with student name, program, graduation year, quote, and photo. Pre-wired to appear on the homepage and program pages where conversion happens.
• Basic Page & Landing Page — General-purpose content types with full Canvas (Layout Builder) support for department pages, policy pages, and campaign landing pages that need layout flexibility without a developer on-call.

Homepage Layout

Pre-wired homepage includes:

• Hero region with headline, subhead, and primary CTA
• Program teaser grid — shows featured programs, filterable by degree level
• News feed block — latest three news items
• Student testimonials carousel
• Secondary CTA region (campus visit / contact / apply)

All regions are Canvas (Layout Builder) editable. Editors rearrange, add, and remove blocks without touching code.

Navigation & Menus

• Mega menu via the Provus Mega Menu module — multi-column dropdown with support for featured content panels
• Utility navigation (accessibility, login, search)
• Footer navigation with multi-column layout
• Breadcrumbs configured with student-first URL patterns

Theme & Front-End Stack

Full integration with Provus EDU Theme, which extends Provus Base Theme.

• Bootstrap 5 — production-grade grid and component system
• Webpack build pipeline — clean, maintainable SCSS with hot reload in development
• Canvas (Drupal Layout Builder) — optimized for drag-and-drop editing within brand guardrails
• WCAG 2.2 Level AA — accessibility compliance is structural, not cosmetic. Ships meeting ADA and Section 508 requirements out of the box.
• Mobile-first, responsive across all breakpoints

SEO & Performance Defaults

• Metatag module pre-configured for all content types
• Sitemap.xml generation
• Schema.org structured data markup for programs and courses (Google rich results for educational content)
• BigPipe, Page Cache, and Dynamic Page Cache enabled with sensible defaults
• WebP image support with responsive image styles and lazy loading
• Canonical URLs and redirect management

Accessibility — Built In, Not Bolted On

Provus®EDU ships with accessibility compliance as architecture, informed by Promet Source's work as an accessibility remediation agency for government and higher-ed clients.

• WCAG 2.2 Level AA across all included templates and content types
• Keyboard-navigable mega menu and modal components
• Color contrast ratios that meet AA thresholds across all five theme color variants
• Alt text fields enforced on all media fields with in-editor hints
• Heading hierarchy enforced in Canvas editing templates
• Section 508 and ADA compliance documentation available

Why Provus®EDU Exists

Promet Source has built production Drupal websites for higher education institutions for more than 20 years. After the same conversations — "we need a faculty directory," "can your editors actually publish program pages without filing a ticket?" "how do you handle 200 department sites without losing brand consistency?" — we stopped rebuilding these solutions from scratch for every client and started packaging them.

Two projects in particular shaped the architecture of Provus®EDU:

Portland State University — Empowering Non-Technical Content Editors

500 non-technical content editors. 200+ department microsites. One central design system with brand governance. Promet built a component-based design library on Atomic Design principles that let editors create and publish content within institutional brand constraints — without a developer in the loop for day-to-day updates.

The Canvas editing experience, brand-constrained layout templates, and multisite governance patterns in Provus®EDU are direct descendants of this project.

SIU School of Medicine — An Engaging Web Experience to Meet Multiple Missions

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine needed to migrate its patient care site and its medical school site from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 as a cohesive whole — two separate URLs, two distinct visual identities, one design system, zero identity crisis. The dual-URL architecture with shared governance that Promet delivered became a reference architecture for multi-audience higher-ed site design.

The flexible content architecture and multi-audience homepage patterns in Provus®EDU reflect what this project required: a single CMS serving prospective students, current students, faculty, and the public without collision.

Full case studies on Drupal.org:

• PSU case study
• SIU case study

Requirements

Getting Started

Provus®EDU is a Drupal CMS recipe. The installation sequence below assumes you have a fresh Drupal CMS instance running. If you don't, start at new.drupal.org/drupal-cms to spin one up.

Step 1 — Require the recipe via Composer

From your Drupal project root:

composer require drupal/provus_edu

Step 2 — Apply the recipe

Drupal CMS recipes are applied via Drush:

drush recipe recipes/contrib/provus_edu

This installs and configures all dependencies, imports the content types and views, applies the theme, and sets the homepage. A fresh Drupal CMS site goes from blank to higher-ed-ready in the time it takes Composer to run.

Step 3 — Populate your content

Provus®EDU ships with sample content to demonstrate the content architecture. Replace it with your institution's programs, faculty, news, and events. The Canvas editor is available from the first login — no additional configuration required.

Step 4 — Customize your theme

Provus EDU Theme ships with five color variants. Swap the active variant in Appearance settings or sub-theme for full brand customization. The SCSS is clean, well-documented, and built for institutional design systems.

Self-service hosting option

Provus®EDU is available as a one-click install on DevPanel — the fastest way to evaluate the recipe on a live environment without local setup. Recommended for evaluators, IT directors doing demos, and developers who want a sandbox before committing to a full install.

Related Projects

Provus®EDU is the top of a four-project stack. Each component is maintained separately so institutions can adopt them independently or update the theme without changing the recipe.

What's on the Roadmap

Provus®EDU follows a release cadence tied to Drupal CMS releases. The feature backlog is driven by community feedback, Promet's active higher-ed client work, and competitive parity with proprietary platforms like Modern Campus CMS and Cascade CMS. Current roadmap priorities:

• Program Finder with faceted search — Filter by degree level, modality (online/hybrid/in-person), department, and time-to-completion. Uses Search API + Facets + Views.
• Post-install onboarding tour — Guided Drupal Tour module walkthrough for first-time admins: how to edit a page, add a program, configure the faculty directory, and find help.
• AI alt-text generator — Editor uploads an image; AI suggests alt text. Editor approves/edits. Addresses the most common accessibility violation in higher-ed content.
• Prospective-student chatbot — EDU adaptation of Civic AI Navigator — answers FAQ, helps narrow program choice, captures inquiry leads. Built on Promet's existing AI infrastructure.
• Campus alerts banner — Emergency/weather/closure banner with severity levels, scheduled publishing, and auto-dismiss.
• SSO reference implementation — Documented Shibboleth/SAML/CAS integration pattern. Higher ed runs on Shibboleth. Non-optional for serious adoption.

Track progress, submit feature requests, and contribute: drupal.org/project/issues/provus_edu

What's new in 1.0.3

Provus EDU 1.0.3 (released 27 May 2026) introduces AI-powered features and several content improvements:

• Demo pages to highlight features and components
• New modules enabled: AI Core, AI SEO/GEO analyzer, OpenAI Provider, AI Image Alt Text, AI Image Bulk Alt Text, Key

Important: For the AI features to work, you must add a new key under Configuration → System → Keys (/admin/config/system/keys) after installing or updating to 1.0.3. Without a valid key configured, the AI Core and related modules (OpenAI Provider, AI SEO/GEO analyzer, AI Image Alt Text, AI Image Bulk Alt Text) will not function.

Need Help? Promet Source Has Done This Before.

Provus®EDU is free to install. What gets complex after install — brand customization, SSO integration, SIS data feeds, multi-site governance, content migration from legacy CMSs, accessibility remediation, and ongoing support — is where Promet Source comes in.

Services available:

• Implementation — Full-service site build on Provus®EDU: discovery, design, configuration, content migration, launch, and post-launch support.
• Design — Custom institutional branding applied to the Provus EDU Theme: sub-theme, color system, typography, component library.
• Accessibility Remediation — WCAG 2.2 audit, remediation, and VPAT documentation. Promet is an accessibility specialist with government and higher-ed clients.
• Migration — Migration from Drupal 7/8/9/10, WordPress, Modern Campus CMS, Cascade CMS, or any legacy CMS. Content, redirects, SEO preservation.
• Training — Editor training, admin training, and developer workshops. Delivered as live sessions or recorded courses.
• Ongoing Support — Managed hosting, security updates, feature development retainers, and issue-queue support.

Talk to Promet Source about your project → prometsource.com/provus/provus-edu

Request a guided demo → resource.prometsource.com/request-provusedu-demo

Links

• Live demo — edu-windy-cms.provusdemo.com
• Promet Source — prometsource.com
• Request a demo — resource.prometsource.com/request-provusedu-demo
• Issue queue — drupal.org/project/issues/provus_edu
• PSU case study — new.drupal.org/case-study/portland-state-university-empowering-non-technical-content-editors
• SIU case study — new.drupal.org/case-study/siu-school-of-medicine-an-engaging-web-experience-to-meet-multiple-missions

Related Projects

Provus is a family of open-source Drupal recipes and themes from Promet Source, built for higher education and government.

Government & Public Safety

• Provus®Gov Police — Drupal CMS recipe that installs a complete, production-ready government website in a single command. Ships with the Provus®Gov Police Theme.
• Provus®Gov Police Theme — The accessible front-end theme for the Provus®Gov Police recipe — built for police departments and public-safety agencies.
• Provus®Gov Fire — Drupal CMS recipe that installs a complete, production-ready government website in a single command. Ships with the Provus®Gov Fire Theme.
• Provus®Gov Fire Theme — Provus®Gov front-end theme variant purpose-built for fire districts and fire departments.
• Provus DUSWDS — Government site recipe built on the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) for federal, state, and local agencies.
• Provus DUSWDS Theme — USWDS front-end theme for government sites — the visual layer for the Provus DUSWDS recipe.