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Professional Certificate · Bachelor's level · CPP-10
Content Management System Administration
For: Digital communication officers, webmasters, and website managers of associations, small businesses and public administrations.
Learning outcomes
- Deploy and administer a content management system: installation, themes, plugins, roles and permissions.
- Choose the right tool for a blog, a showcase website or a multilingual website according to the requirements specification.
- Secure and maintain a content management system.
Programme over 4 weeks
| Week | Content |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Open-source content management systems; choosing the tool according to the requirements specification: blog, showcase website, multilingual website. |
| Week 2 | Installation on teaching hosting provided by the school: themes, plugins, roles and permissions. |
| Week 3 | Security and maintenance: updates, backups, accounts; risks listed in the OWASP Top 10:2025. |
| Week 4 | Professional simulation: installing, configuring and securing a website for a fictitious organisation, in a virtual lab. |
Assessment
Marked professional simulation in a virtual lab, assessed against a rubric (70%): website installed, configured and secured; online knowledge-check quiz (30%). All exercises take place on the teaching hosting provided by the school.
The certificate is awarded with a mark of at least 10 out of 20.
Optional: Website Contributors and Maintenance
An additional 1-credit module over 2 weeks (CPP-10C), awarded as a separate certificate; together with this certificate, it makes up the full course component of the original programme.
- Training contributors in publishing, and a contributor guide.
- Maintenance routines: updates, backups and account checks.
At your own pace: the self-paced pathway
In a class, this certificate takes 4 weeks, on the cohort's dates. On the self-paced pathway, you start whenever you like, online, and progress at your own pace. The price is the same.
Estimate how long my pathway will take
- Duration
- about 4 weeks
- Estimated end
- 4 weeks after you start
- Examination
- Online, subject to available slots, no earlier than 4 weeks after you start
- Payment
- In a single payment
An indicative estimate, for a start today and 40 hours of work. You can change your pace along the way; the pathway must be completed within 12 weeks (about 3 months) of your start. Your e-Campus access opens with your first payment.
Admission
Regular use of the web; online publishing experience assessed on application. Admission based on application; detailed requirements set by the school.
The credits you earn are recognised without further assessment if you later join the programme they come from, Professional Bachelor's degree in Digital Project Management - Web Design and Development, within a period set by the certificate regulations.