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

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

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

Use Person to create people profiles, directories and listings.

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

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

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

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