Do the videos that you post on the OCPS Internet (district or school) include closed captioning?
The purpose of closed captioning is to assist people who are deaf or hard of hearing to understand the audio portions of your video. … Read the rest
Where Should I Put My Content?
I originally wrote this article for our Web Services Newsletter almost 3 years ago when we were still using SharePoint for the Internet, Intranet, and school sites. However, the fundamental principals that applied then apply today for the SchoolMessenger platform. … Read the rest
How to Enter Email Links
When you enter an email address on a web page, it is very important that the final address link on the page includes the prefix: mailto: before the email address. If it does not, the email address may be interpreted … Read the rest
Link Colors and Color Contrast for ADA
I got this very useful document related to ADA compliance from SchoolMessenger to other day and thought you all might be interested. We will be selecting colors from the ‘safe’ list in the document for each school matching as close … Read the rest
Analyze Attendance and Incidents for K-12 Students
I recently watched the most recent video from Patrick LeBlanc, a Power BI guru from Microsoft. You can see it here:
He recently has changed position in Microsoft to support K-12 schools using Microsoft products. Working with District 11 … Read the rest
Document Names vs Titles
If you previously uploaded PDF documents to the School Messenger portal, you may have noticed that it is not possible for the average person to delete uploaded documents. This restriction was applied by design to prevent the creation of broken … Read the rest
Formatting Within a Content Portlet
Let’s say you have a document with the following text in the main Page Content area (although this technique will work in any content portlet) which you first directly typed your text into the design area.
Initially, all of the … Read the rest
Page Links vs External Links
When you look at the top-level navigation in your school site or the side navigation in your department site, you may have a series of links as shown in the following two images:
For a School:
For a Department:
In … Read the rest
Extra! Extra! Read All About It – Using Recent News
Now that you know about the importance of Upcoming Events (12/21/2017 post), let’s look at Recent News which is also found on your school’s home page. Like Upcoming Events, Recent News gets aggregated in the mobile app with other schools … Read the rest
Requesting Edit Permissions to SchoolMessenger Sites
Your manager has just informed you that you are the lucky person who is now responsible for the department/school web site. Do you have permission to edit pages on this site? How can you tell? Go to any page on … Read the rest