Welcome to the Trinity Parent Portal!

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1 Welcome to the Trinity Parent Portal! The Trinity Parent Portal page has a number of features that you can customize. These instructions will show you some of the ways you can personalize your Parent Portal page. Customizing Your Elements The Parent Portal elements allow you to customize certain features. When you hover your cursor over the title bar of an element, icons appear that enable you to customize that element. Collapsing and expanding the view: Click on the yellow triangle to collapse or expand an element. The collapsing feature is especially useful for portal elements that take up a lot of page space (such as news or calendars), or ones you don t view often or don t need. Refreshing the element: Click on the green arrows to refresh the view after you ve made a change in the element s appearance or contents. Deleting the element: Elements that can be deleted by the user will show a red X when you hover your cursor over the title bar. To delete, simply click on the X. Be careful, though: deleted elements may not be recoverable. Certain elements, including Announcements and My Accounts on the Welcome! tab, cannot be deleted. Editing the element s appearance: Click on the pencil icon to edit the element s appearance. A Settings dialog box will pop up, enabling you to change the element s appearance and its title. To change the title, type a new name into the box.

2 To change the color of the border, background, text, links, title bar, or title bar text, click on the squares. This will bring up a color palette from which you can choose a new color. If you don t specify a color, the default color will be applied. Click on Border Width to choose a new width for the border around the element. To hide the title bar so that only the element itself shows, click on the button Hide. W recommend that you not hide the title bar, however, as you may not be able to show it again...and then you won t be able to move, delete, or edit the element. e Editing the Element Contents Some elements will allow you to edit their contents. To do this, hover your cursor over the title bar and then click on the pencil icon. A Settings dialog box will pop up. Click on the Contents tab to change the element s contents. The window allows you to change the current content by deleting what is there or by typing in new content.

3 In the same window, you can click on the window icon at the bottom and a pop up editor window will appear. This pop up editor offers a wider range of options for modifying the content, including inserting links, inserting video or photo clips, and more detailed text editing. Note: You must click the floppy disk icon in the top left corner to save any c hange you make before navigating away from this window, or your changes will be lost. When you ve finished customizing your elements in the Settings window, click the Save button to save all your Settings changes. Moving the Elements Most, but not all, of the elements can be moved around on the Portal Page. Certain elements, however, are locked in place ( docked ) and can t be moved from their original place. To move an element, click and drag it to the desired place on the tab. As you drag the element into place, a faint outline will appear indicating that you ve found a possible location on the tab. Stop dragging, and the element will drop into place. (It may take several tries to get the hang of this just keep trying!) You may find it easier to first collapse the window and then drag and drop it into place. Note: If the element does not move when you click and drag, it is docked and cannot be moved around.

4 Adding New Elements to Your Page To add new elements to your page, first make sure you re on the tab you want to place the element on. Then go to the black ribbon at the bottom of the window and click on Add Elements. A library of available elements will appear: You can also drag and drop the new element onto your tab. You can also double click on it in the element library and then click on Add, and it will appear below the other elements on the tab. You can edit the title of the element and its other display features by clicking on the pencil icon that appears when you hover your cursor over the title bar of your new element. Here are some of the elements that you can add to your Parent Portal page: Links to your Facebook, Flickr, or Gmail account Links to YouTube videos RSS and Twitter feeds Weather (for a location of your choice) Media (upload personal photos or videos) You can add these to your Portal Page, and then click on the pencil icon to set them up and edit their properties.

5 Other Parent Portal Customization Features Calendar options: The Parent Portal calendars can be customized to show the events in different divisions or departments (such as Admissions or Athletics) according to your family s needs. First, click on the checkmark just below the calendar s title bar, on the right hand side. A window will pop up allowing you to choose one or more calendars to be shown in that calendar element. Select as many calendars as you wish from the list, then click Update View. A video tutorial showing how to customize the Calendar elements of the Parent Portal is available at or check out a variety of other written tutorials available under the Portal Instructions element on the Welcome! tab. Bookmarking web pages: With the Bookmarks element, you can link the Parent Portal to other pages of the Trinity website or to other websites. This gives you convenient one click access to other pages on the web. A video tutorial showing how to use the Bookmarks feature of the Parent Portal is available at or check out the video and written tutorials on bookmarking available under the Portal Instructions element on the Welcome! tab.