TL-Jan-2013

=January 2013 Technology Liaisons Meeting=

=Get Your School Website Updated: CMS Workshop=

Agenda:
Welcomes and Introductions Concerns and Solutions forum Vendor Presentations
 * Justin Tedaldi from [|Straight Ace]
 * === Ryan McDonnell from __ [|MIND **Research Institute**] __ ===
 * ==**Dr. Donald Carney, CEO, Co-Founder ** of [|Fluidity Software] ==

CMS Agenda

 * 1) Verifying / securing editing access
 * 2) What is CMS?
 * 3) Permissions for editing: Who and where
 * 4) How to get to the CMS editing console
 * 5) Tour of CMS: Channel, Section, Page
 * 6) Tour of Editing Console
 * 7) Making sections visible / invisible
 * 8) Edit a page //save and exit// approve
 * 9) Working with the editor: tour, different pastes, hyperlinks, attach files
 * 10) Linking to external sites
 * 11) Creating a page or link //name// save and exit // approve
 * 12) Working with different types of pages: section pages, home page, photo page, top links
 * 13) Calendar / Events / Homepage news
 * 14) Web page properties for view control by date
 * 15) Internet Acceptable Use Policy review
 * 16) Concerns surrounding copyrighting
 * 17) Developing an online community with your website
 * 18) LUNCH
 * 19) Working with your school websites with help on hand

=School Web Sites= Communicating to potential and current parents and students of your school is extremely important. The Office of Web Management Services has created individual school Web portals using a Content Management System making it easier for schools to have a web presence. Some features available to webmasters within the school web sites follow:

Portal Features

 * Communicate important information to parents and students quickly and easily without knowledge of HTML using the [|web editor]
 * [|Brand your school's web sites] using the school's colors, logo, and motto as well as school building photo.
 * Display [|school information] such as principal, address, enrollment, contacts and more.
 * Create a [|photo gallery].


 * Sample of Customized Sites:**
 * || [|Tottenville High School] ||
 * || [|Boys and Girls High School] ||
 * || [|Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences] ||
 * || [|New Utrecht High School] ||
 * || [|Sheepshead Bay High School] ||
 * || [|Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing and Visual Arts] ||

Getting Started
Update and contribute content to your school's web portal. || As the school webmaster you can now access the school web editing tool (CMS) from any computer with an internet connection. || Enter your CENTRAL account information if prompted. It is the same logon information you use to access your Outlook email. For example:
 * || [|**Become a Webmaster for your school**]
 * || **Accessing CMS from a classroom or home computer**
 * User ID: || ** Central\[your username] e.g. central\jdoe ** ||
 * Password: || ** [your Microsoft Outlook password] ** ||

Once you have logged in, go to your school portal and proceed with editing content. If you do not know your school portal web address, go to our school search at [] and locate the web address by using its name or school code. For additional instruction on how to edit content in CMS, please use the Virtual Training modules at:[] If you need a copy of the most recent CMS instruction manual, please download it from: [] You can also view our Wiki page on Using CMS located at:[]

Updating Your School Web site
Customize your school's web site with your school's colors, logo, motto, and school photo. || You can request updates to your school's information such as your school's phone number, fax, principal's name, PTA, Parent ||
 * || [|**Customize the look of your school's website**]
 * || **Update your school's information**

Acceptable Use
Use our guidelines to ensure compliance with our [|Internet Acceptable Use Policy] || To post pictures of students on you website you must have a release form signed and filed for each student photo you wish to post. || Please contact the Communications Office at 212-374-5141 regarding student art work. ||
 * || [|**Linking to an external web site**]
 * || **Displaying pictures of students**
 * || **__ Posting student, teacher, or staff art work __**