Go to your web site and click the Login link at the upper right of the page. Enter your user name in the appropriate box (your user name is your first and last name as one word). Enter your FCDS Windows password (that you use to login to your pc) in the password box. Click the Login button.
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To add a module, you must be logged in as a site administrator. If the Control Panel is not visible, open it by clicking on the chevrons (^) to the right of Show Control Panel.
- Select the module you want to add in the dropdown next to Module:.
- Type in a title for the module.
- Leave Visibility set to Same As Page (typically)
- Choose the location and alignment for the module
- Click the green + or the Add link
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- Assignments may be added or edited from either the weekly or monthly view. To add an assignment click on either a date or the Add Assignment link at the bottom of the module. Click one. You will be directed to the Edit Assignments page.
- If you clicked on a particular date, that date is entered in the Assignment Date box. If you clicked on Add Assignment, the current date is entered. If desired, you may type in a different date or click on the calendar icon to choose a date.
- The text you enter in the Assignment Summary box (required) is the text that shows up in the weekly and monthly views.
- The optional Assignment Details section provides space to elaborate on the assignment. Since this is a “rich text editor”, details can include anything from simple text to formatted text to hyperlinks to images.
- When you are finished editing the assignment, click the Update link at the bottom of the module. You’ll be returned to either the weekly or monthly view depending on where you were before you entered Edit Assignments.
You should see your assignment. Rollover the assignment and notice that the “tool tip” shows the Assignment Details if any were entered. Users can click on an assignment to view the full details with any images, links or other goodies.
- To edit or delete an existing assignment, click on the assignment summary in the weekly or monthly view. You’ll be taken back to the assignment editor. To edit the assignment, make any desired changes and then click Update at the bottom of the module. To delete the assignment, click Delete at the bottom of the module.
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To add a document to the Documents module, first make sure your document is saved somewhere you can access it (your My Documents folder, for example). In order to ensure accessibility, it's a very good idea to save most document types as pdf files. This can be done by "printing" the document to the Adobe PDF "printer" listed in your printers. Users will not be able to open Office 2007 documents inside of your web site and will be prompted to save them. If the user does not have Office 2007, they will not be able to open the documents at all! PowerPoint presentations can be saved as PowerPoint shows (.ppsx), which will eliminate the need for the user to have PowerPoint 2007 installed on their computer.
To add a document to the module:
- Click the Add New Document link
- Type a title for the document.
- The description and category are optional, depending on whether your Documents module is set to show them (in the module Settings).
- Assuming that your document is not on a remote web site, set the Link Type to File.
- To upload your document, click on Upload New File under Link.
- Click the Browse button, browse to, and select your document. Then click Open.
- Click Upload Selected File to complete the operation.
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- First, make sure the image is available to upload to your site.
- Clip art is available for uploading at S:\Clip Art (the Faculty Share drive). You can choose the image when you place it on the page. Or,
- If the image you want is already in your My Pictures folder (or somewhere else you can get to it) you can upload it when you place it on the page. Or,
- Go to the Internet, find an image you want, and save it to your My Pictures folder. You will be able to upload it when you place it on your page.
- The best container for images is the Text/HTML module. Add one to your web page. If desired, you may hide the module's container (the title bar and border) by unchecking Display Container in the module's Page Setings. Click on View Mode to see the effect.
- Click Edit Text to edit the module's content.
- Click on the Insert Image button (the icon looks like hills and a sun).
- In the Image Properties window that pops up, click the Browse Server button to the right of the URL textbox
- In the Image Gallery window that pops up, click the Browse… button at the top right.
- Navigate to the file location of your image.
- Click on the image, then click Open.
- Click Upload New File next to the Browse button. The image should show up in the window.
- Click the image in the Image Gallery window. You’ll be taken back to the Image Properties window.
- Enter a description of the image in the Alternative Text textbox.
- You may need to adjust the dimensions of your image. You can do this by entering a number in either the height or width textbox. The other dimension will be set automatically.
- Click OK to add the image to the module.
- To edit an existing image, enter the Edit Text mode, click the image, then click the Insert Image button.
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Handling Office 2007 documents can cause many unexpected problems. The Documents module will link to docx files, however they will have to be saved by the user before they can be opened. Links to docx files in Text/HTML modules will not work at all.
The safest solution to the problem is to convert Word 2007 documents to a pdf file. You can do this by choosing File, Print, then selecting either Adobe PDF or PDFCreator as your printer. Save the pdf file to your My Documents folder then upload it to your site and link to it.
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