Aims Community College is a fully accredited two-year college nestled on 185 acres in beautiful Greeley, Colorado. Aims offers over 200 degrees and certificates from more than 50 academic areas of study. With more than 4,000 daytime, evening, weekend, and online course offerings each year, students are able to flexibly complete coursework part-time or full-time. Aims serves a diverse community of 8,400 students with an average class size of 15:1. Students like Aims because of the affordability, access to degrees that lead to jobs in today’s market, and the college’s commitment to excellence.
Aims serves a diverse community of 8,400 students with an average class size of 15:1. Students like Aims because of the affordability, access to degrees that lead to jobs in today’s market, and the college’s commitment to excellence.
Aims wanted to address the significant Hispanic/Latino population at the college by creating a Spanish version of their website to provide a higher level of inclusivity and accessibility. They also wanted a translation solution that was easy to maintain, and that could be implemented within a very tight time frame.
Hunter considered two other localization solutions. The first option natively translates content with a push of a button, but Hunter would have to manually go through and approve the translations every time in the CMS. This route would waste a lot of time and complicate the approval process. The second solution would take a copy of the site and host it on their servers.
« Le problème est qu'une grande partie de notre site Web est protégée par un mot de passe », a déclaré Hunter. « Par conséquent, tout contenu protégé ne pouvait pas être traduit. C'est pourquoi nous avons fini par choisir Localize : il était simple à configurer, il a la capacité d'approuver automatiquement le contenu, il peut facilement modifier et commander des traductions, et il a la capacité de traduire notre contenu protégé par mot de passe en toute sécurité. »
"One of the most important features we were looking for was the ability to automatically approve and translate all the content on our websites." - Hunter Wilson, Web Manager
Aims Community College found Localize extremely easy to use. Hunter said his favorite feature is the ability to auto approve pending translations and modify the translations with the Localize editor. He’s also excited to use the document translation feature, where he can upload documents like PDFs and have them instantly AI translated for export again. As a busy college, translated paperwork is a must-have solution.
« L'équipe de Localize a été merveilleuse et nous a soutenus à chaque étape du processus. Un grand merci à notre responsable de la réussite client, Linda, pour avoir compris nos besoins et pris le temps de nous expliquer les choses que nous aurions pu manquer », a déclaré Hunter. « L'équipe d'Aims était également très occupée les deux semaines précédant le lancement et Linda a fait un excellent travail de soutien selon les besoins. »
Le principal attrait pour l'Aims Community College était la possibilité d'approuver automatiquement les traductions en attente, de traduire en toute sécurité les parties du site protégées par un mot de passe et de commander des traductions humaines rapidement et facilement à partir du tableau de bord de Localize.
L'Aims Community College peut désormais se vanter d'avoir un site Web de première catégorie qui permet une traduction rapide et facile de son contenu pour les publics hispanophones. L'une des stratégies clés de l'établissement est de mieux desservir les diverses populations. Dans le cadre de cette stratégie, l'objectif est d'améliorer la rétention des inscriptions et l'obtention de diplômes pour les populations latino-américaines. Disposer d'un site Web multilingue sera un élément important de cette stratégie.
"There has been a lot of excitement from the Center for Diversity & Inclusion Department on campus as well as the Latinx Engagement & Support Coordinators since the introduction of our multilingual website." - Hunter Wilson, Web Manager Campus Safety and Security page in English and translated to Spanish using Localize.
The website is the first impression for almost all prospective students. Having a professional and inclusive website sets the tone for the type of education they can expect and the types of professional interactions they will have with the faculty and staff at the college. Having the ability to quickly switch languages helps a student show off the college to a non-English speaking parent or help non-native speakers better understand complicated enrollment processes in the language of their choice.
Aims Community College has over 52% first-generation students and more specifically, their Hispanic student population stands at over 33%. The enormous success of this initial website localization confirms that Aims Community College will have a translation feature on the website for the foreseeable future.
