OU WebEx Training Outline

Welcome

Recording

Before we begin

  • Help Options

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•Academic versus Administrative

•Help link in top right of dashboard after logging in

•other help icons you may find around the site (on toolbars, etc)

  • 30 day expiration for login – license restrictions
  • Student logins
  • Standards/ADA compliance

•color blindness, color contrast (low vision), labeling images and tables

•H1/H2/H3 (header tags)

•General Skidmore standards:

•Web Design standards:

•Other FAQs -

  • Browser compatability, toolbars, and popups

Agenda

  • Logging in/Logging out

•Hidden login button in top left of every page, uses Skidmore username and password

•Logout at the end of each session, after checking your checked out materials

  • Overview of Admin toolbar I (Dashboard, Reports, Add ons, logout)

•Dashboard - workflow, checked out content, configuration/setup, analytics widget, drag and drop

•Reports

•Add-ons

•Setup

•Help (OU help system causes delays in addressing tickets)

  • Overview of Admin toolbar II (Content)

•Pages view

•Using breadcrumb links

•Types of files

•left column file view

•hover-over menus (checked in and checked out)

•Staging versus Production tabs

  • linking to .php (never to .pcf)
  • Uploading items (images, documents)

•Types of items to upload – images, files, zip files

•Naming convention (no spaces, use dashes, no revision numbers)

•recommended image sizes

  • banner – 700x200, 72dpi
  • text – 200-300, 72dpi
  • photo gallery – 700xsame, 72dpi

•Upload and overwrite

•Publish after upload

  • Pause for questions
  • Editing a page

•Checking Out versus just Editing

•Page Properties

•Compare/Revert

•Backup

•Check (links and compliance)

•Gadgets sidebar – open and overview (images, analytics, snippets)

  • Working in the Text Editor

•Overview of icons on the toolbar

  • Save
  • Remove Formatting
  • Links (switch to production tab to link)
  • H1/H2/H3/styles
  • Inserting images
  • Snippets to drag and drop
  • Inserting video
  • Inserting tables
  • Not for layout, only for data, use snippets for layout
  • Snippets to drag and drop
  • Header row style
  • Assets and Snippets (advanced topics not covered)
  • Pause for questions
  • Creating new items
  • folder (only for images or documents)
  • section (subsite)
  • page (three column template)
  • include in navigation drop down
  • Moving, copying, renaming, and deleting items
  • Move (and publish)
  • Copy
  • rename, edit properties
  • Delete versus recycle (duration = unlimited)
  • Check the Dependency Manager before deleting, to make sure that the pages are not in use on other websites
  • Pause for questions
  • Includes files

•Unused files - quick links, ctm-text

•Editable files - dept-title, footer, nav-left, social-media

  • Editing navigation files

•_navigation.inc – right nav

•nav-left.php in Includes folder (main left nav)

  • include in navigation issue

Advanced Topics for additional classes

•Assets (forms, galleries)

•Snippets

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