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.
“问题在于我们网站的大部分内容都设有密码保护，”亨特说。“这意味着任何受保护的内容都无法翻译。这就是我们最终选择Localize 的原因：它设置简单，能够自动审核内容，可以轻松修改和订购翻译，并且能够安全地翻译我们受密码保护的内容。”
“我们最需要的功能之一就是能够自动审批和翻译我们网站上的所有内容。” - Hunter Wilson，网站经理
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.
“ Localize团队在整个过程中都给予了我们极大的支持和帮助。非常感谢我们的客户成功经理琳达，她不仅理解我们的需求，还抽出时间耐心指导我们，解答我们可能忽略的问题，”亨特说道。“Aims团队在上线前的最后几周也异常忙碌，琳达在必要时提供了出色的支持。”
Aims Community College选择 Localize 的主要原因是能够自动批准待处理的翻译，安全地翻译网站中受密码保护的部分，并且能够通过Localize面板快速轻松地订购人工翻译。
Aims Community College如今拥有一个一流的社区学院网站，该网站能够快速便捷地将内容翻译成西班牙语，方便西班牙语使用者访问。该学院的关键战略之一是更好地服务于多元化群体。该战略的目标之一是提高拉丁裔学生的入学率、留存率和学位完成率。拥有一个多语言网站将是实现这一战略的重要组成部分。
"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.
