There has been a great deal of concern about accessibility recently. Even Microsoft has focused on accessibility in many of their more recent application updates. However, how do you as an individual ensure your PDF documents are accessible without having … Read the rest
Adding Email Links on a Web Page
Most webpage editors know how to add a basic email link on their website. But let’s start with an example content line that says the following:
If you have any questions concerning any of the OCPS guidelines, please address them … Read the rest
Creating Your Accessible PDF from Word
Now that you have a Word Document that is accessible, how can you create a PDF that you can distribute to others outside of OCPS.
Since the 2007 version of Word, you have had an option to change the file … Read the rest
District Web Site Webinar Now Available In-House
The video recording from the August 13, 2018 webinar for district web admins/authors is now available from our intranet site page:
https://intranet.ocps.net/cms/One.aspx?portalId=125187&pageId=338087
The videos on the left side of the page are the introductory videos created in 2017. The Mastering … Read the rest
Initializing Your School Calendar for 2018-19
One of your tasks for the upcoming school year is to initialize your school calendar with some basic events such as the start of school, the start and stop of marking periods, recognized holidays, etc. Of course you could enter … Read the rest
Time To Take a Survey
In the last post, we looked at polls which are a great way to ask a single question of your site visitors, but what if you need to ask a set of questions. Of course you could use multiple … Read the rest
Training Materials Available from SchoolMessenger for Presence
There is a wide variety of training materials available through SchoolMessenger for our Presence website. To access these, go to https://resourcecentral.schoolmessenger.com. You must login with your SchoolMessenger account username and password (not your OCPS account). If you have not … 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
Where are the Parent Guide and Code of Conduct Documents?
I recently got this question from a school who had old links. While i did find the links directly to the English version of these files in PDF format on the district’s site. I also found a better option. I … Read the rest