Create an Education Portal

Build a portal for your applicants, students, and alumni to access your institution's services.

Editions Needed
Available in: Lightning Experience
Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions with Education Cloud
User Permissions Needed  
To create an education portal: Education Cloud Full Access
Note
Note To create an Experience Cloud site, you must enable Digital Experiences for your org and register the domain. See Enable Digital Experiences.
  1. From Setup, in the Quick Find box, find and select All Sites under Digital Experiences.
  2. On the Digital Experiences page, click New.
  3. On the Lightning Experience guided flow, choose the Education Portal template. Alternatively, you can choose Build Your Own to develop a custom site.
  4. Click Get Started.
  5. Provide a name for the site and click Create.
  6. Click Administration.
  7. Click Members.
  8. Add System Administrator and all of your community profiles to the Selected Profiles section.
  9. Save your changes.

Use Experience Builder to customize and add features. See Customize Sites with Experience Builder.

If you have the required permissions but encounter errors while creating an Experience Cloud site, verify that your org has these Apex classes. To see your Apex classes, from Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Apex Classes, and then select Apex Classes.

  • SiteLoginController
  • SiteLoginControllerTest
  • SiteRegisterController
  • SiteRegisterControllerTest

If your org doesn't have all of the required Apex classes, retrieve the missing classes from another org, such as a sandbox, and then deploy them to your org. See Choose Your Tools for Developing and Deploying Changes.