CMS - Website Content Management System
! IMPORTANT: CASCADE CMS END OF SERVICE.
- As of Friday August 1, 2025, publishing in CASCADE is no longer available.
- Access to Cascade should now be for reference only.
- All websites must be migrated out of the Cascade CMS by the end of service.
- For website assistance, please:
- First: contact the Communications office for your college or department;
- Second: email either webmarketing@uh.edu or cms@uh.edu.
- For further information please see:
IMPORTANT: As of Friday May 19, 2023, the UH VPN using the full-vpn-uh.edu setting is required if Cascade Users want to log into Cascade from off campus. See the UIT site's VPN information to see how to set things up for your operating system. If you already have UH VPN installed, see notes on switching to the "full" setting.
UH Marketing and Branding develop the themes, designs, and templates that are used within the university website's Content Management System to establish and support a shared look, feel, and functionality for University of Houston websites.
The university is currently transitioning between CMS applications. For more information please see: CMS Migration 2024-2025
Cascade CMS Training
Training on how to access and use the Cascade CMS will be offered throughout the service life of Cascade CMS on an as-needed basis. Priority will be given to individuals who need to assist in migrating their websites into the new CMS.
Individuals with active Cougarnet accounts are eligible to be set up as Cascade Users after the completion of training and only with authorization by their department. New trainees should provide their MyUH/employee/peoplesoft ID at least 1 business day before a Teams-based training session. If you need either Cascade CMS training or adjustments to existing Cascade CMS access, please contact either Robert Birkline or Patty Schwerin for assistance.
NOTE: Cascade CMS Basics training sessions are being offered either via Office365 - Microsoft Teams (but may include other UH-based tele-solutions) or via credit for studying an equivalent set of training recordings. For more information on Teams please see the UIT site's Teams pages.
Please inquire about Cascade CMS Basics training.
For Cascade CMS or Cascade CMS training questions, please contact cms@uh.edu.
For more information and to request support
To get more information about using or gaining access to the UH Cascade CMS, and/or to request support:
Contact the Web Technologies CMS Team
cms@uh.edu or webservices@uh.edu
Robert Birkline, Mgr, Web Technology
Ryan Reynolds, Cascade CMS Application Administrator
Patty Schwerin, Cascade CMS User Training;
Cascade CMS & Modern Campus CMS Sites support
Dominic Johnson, Web Technologies Quality Assurance
Contact the Web Marketing Team
UH Website design & development, MC Migration 2024-2025, Modern Campus CMS access/training,
and CMS Sites support
webmarketing@uh.edu
https://www.uh.edu/marcom/departments/web/
Meet the Web Marketing Team - See: Marcom > Digital Strategy
Cascade CMS & Web Site Resources
University of Houston Web Accessibility Standards
Some Known Issues/FAQs and Common Alerts
UH Marketing Guidelines and Policies
Learn more about webpage languages, scripts, code, etc. - w3schools
or login to AccessUH to find web-related training through LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com).
Version notes:
The UH Cascade CMS was updated to version 8.15.1 on June 12, 2020.
Hannon Hill and Cascade CMS
The Cascade Content Management System used at the University of Houston was authored by Hannon Hill. Peruse Hannon Hill's Cascade CMS Information:
See also: Hannon Hill's historical and fundamentals Cascade knowledge base.