Alert is used to show a brief prominent message or announcement.

Use Course to add courses from the Registrar's website to your site.

Event is used to create calendars of upcoming events and archives.

Use News to create stories, experiences, communicate current events and announcements.  

Manually curate or dynamically aggregate resource links by a specific page category in a grid or in a standard list layout.  

Use Page to create static pages, listings, and landing pages.

Use Person to create people profiles, directories and listings.

Use Post to create date-based content with specific authors.  Examples might include Announcements (different from news), blogs or job postings.

Use Webforms to add simple to complex forms on your website.