While I don't think we're alone in this, Drupal developers in higher education often face a very high need to create sites that are easy for non-technical users to administer. More often than not, college and university departmental websites are maintained by employees with other responsibilities and little web experience; how do we ensure that they can use (and love using) their content management platform?

Yesterday I went to a very helpful session at DrupalCon San Francisco geared towards this question: Making Drupal Admin Simple. Since so many of us need to do just that, I thought I'd share some of the helpful pointers they provided (and recommend that, once it's online, you watch the session recording).

1. Use an administration menu. It doesn't really matter what you use, so long as your users have an easy, persistent, well-organized list of administrative tasks they can perform.

DrupalCon San Francisco is upon us. Here's a brief list of several sessions/BoFs/etc. that might be of interest to those of us in the education world: