Teacher Webpages. Login onto Enter your username/password

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1 Login onto Enter your username/password Username (first letter of your first name and last name)! Ex: Trish Dempsey; username: tdempsey Click on your school: Next, click content management. After that, click on your name Your website is divided into three parts: Section 1: Touts or buttons that will help navigate to pages of interests. Right now teachers do have access to create touts. You will need to contact your TST. Section 2: In the editing part of the website this is window 1. Section 2: In the editing part of the website this is window 2.

2 Window 1- is information that will be located in the middle of your website. Window 2- is information that will be located on the far right of your website. Window 1 When the district set up the pages last year, page components were chosen. However you are in control of the content displayed on your teacher website. You have the control to delete, add and change which components show on your page. Page Components: The most common used are: text,links, news, downloads, & photo gallery. Window Sizing You also have control over how you want the layout to look. A blank page is 650px wide. Youʼll need to keep that in mind when setting the width for 2 windows. The width for both windows combined canʼt accede more than 650px. Page Components: The most common used are: text,links, news, downloads, & photo gallery. Page Components: The bold title is the internal name. The type of page component is found under the name. Clicking on the Edit This Page Component, enables you to add/delete to that particular component. Deleting Components: You can choose to get rid of a component on a page.

3 Once youʼve clicked Add Page Component, the following window will appear: Select Type of page component you would like to add, and type in an internal name for only you to see. For example: In my window 1 I have two text components. I labeled on Tech Vision knowing in this component I wasnʼt going to change the text throughout the year. I then created another text component and labeled it Dempseyʼs Thoughts. This text component I do want to change throughout the year to keep up current information to help support my building teachers. Editing Text Component Page Show Header Configs is where you add your banner. Title box provides a space label what the text will be about. Sub-Title-provides an opportunity to give a brief overview of the text. Window text is a larger area to display text. Links can be added, fonts can be changed, color added and size changed. ALWAYS click save once youʼve edited a page component.

4 Editing News Component Page ALWAYS click save once youʼve edited a page component. Show Header Configs is where you add your banner. RSS - (Real Simple Syndication) - provides an opportunity for parents to subscribe to your news and be updated when it best fits their schedule. RSS keeps and archive of the news so parents can always look back to reread information. Title of what the article is about. Sub-Header Provides a space to type of brief description of what the article is about. Article A larger space to type or copy and paste an entire article for others to read.

5 Editing Download (PDF) Component Page ALWAYS click save once youʼve edited a page component. Title of what the download is about. Description Provides an opportunity to give more details about the download. Date Select Date you want the download to appear on your website in date visible box. Also provided is date expired that can be used to give parents a limit time to access. If you want it to appear all year leave date expired blank. Attaching a file to download Click on choose file and select from either your desktop or documents the file you want to upload. Click Save once you have the file.

6 Editing Links Component Page ALWAYS click save once youʼve Title of what the Link is about. Description Provides an opportunity to give more details about the website and what to do on that site. URL Type in the web address that you want parents and student to go to. Linking Images A proven fact that people are more apt to click on an image vs words to view a website. Our district website provides and opportunity to link images. Many images can be take off of the home website. Here are just a sample of images that I took from the actual website or took a snapshot (hold all three together: shift/command/4) and attached to my website: **** VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: if you are taking a screenshot you MUST rename the image. The website will only upload images that have no spacing or symbols. This image when!!!!!!!!!!!!! this image since being saved will create!!!!! renamed will an error message succeed.

7 Editing Photo Gallery Component Page Important to check the pixel size of your photos. If it is larger then the setup width pictures will not display properly! Show Header Configs is where you add your banner. Bulk Insert Allows you to upload 12 images with caption/descriptions at once. To add just one photo at a time click on New Gallery Photo. Display Mode Thumbnail List- shows all the pictures in at once. Prev/Next Gallery- shows one photo at a time. Photos can be set advanced automatically or manually.

8 Adding Child Pages Teachers now have the access to add as many child pages as they deem necessary. A child page is a new blank page that can be linked to your main page. This blank page provides a teacher with more opportunities to expand and share many more digital objects to best help parents and students. Above you can see my main teacher page has a web address of: TrishDempsey.aspx Indented below my name is a child page I created about editing Teacher Websites with the web address: teacherwebsites.aspx On my main teacher page I had to create a link to take teachers, parents, students from one page to the next. Notice the words teacher website is green indicating it is a link. The URL address I had to put in there was: teacherwebsite.aspx.