Drupal In A Day Brings Drupal CMS Training to University of Edinburgh UX Team

Training at The University of Edinburgh introduced members of its UX team, interns, and wider university staff to Drupal through the Drupal In A Day format at the start of June 2026. In a blog post published on 25 June 2026, Emma Horrell said Hilmar Kári Hallbjörnsson and Gareth Alexander led the session. Participants worked with Drupal CMS, content types, image handling, tagging, and the Views module.

Emma framed the training as an entry point for people with different levels of Drupal experience. Nick Daniels, senior content designer, said the session helped him understand how EdWeb 2 presents entered content in different ways across a site. Shlok Gupta, AI and UX innovation intern, said the one-day format helped him follow about 70% of the session and see Drupal as a platform involving development, design, content, user experience, training, and project work.

Hannah Watson, digital content style guide intern, said she used Drupal Forge during the session and followed the exercise to replicate artist biography pages. Emma said the training began with setup topics such as DDEV, Drupal Forge, and Drupal.org profiles before moving into practical work with Drupal CMS and Views. The post also records areas where participants wanted more depth, including command-line workflows, terminal commands, and custom Drupal module development.