I’ve recently had trouble reading and using URLs sent to me from people outside of OCPS. They appear to be encrypted by a data security product called Proofpoint. So I developed a couple of tests that leads me to the … Read the rest
Parent Guide and Student Code of Conduct
This blog is primarily oriented to school sites but even non school site admins and authors can perhaps learn something about using External Links.
We have spot checked school sites and determined that while many have pointed their links for … Read the rest
Hyperlink Colors – Part 2
SchoolMessenger has completed their update of school hyperlink colors. In most cases our color recommendation was accepted. However, some of our selections were overridden by SchoolMessenger to provide for better ADA compliance with all possible viewers including those with various … 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
Are You Social?
One of the features that school sites have that district departments do not have (at least officially) is social media sites. SchoolMessenger provides the ability to easily add icons for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube in the bottom right of … Read the rest