As an elementary school, you have options when it comes to posting clubs on your school’s web site. Because you do not currently fall under the same legal requirement that middle and high school must follow, I recommend using one … Read the rest
Home Page Clutter
Not everything is important
We know there is a lot going on at your school, but not everything is important enough to be on the home page. The net effect of putting too much stuff on your home page is … Read the rest
Use External Link Pages Wisely
Using a whole content page to link to another site:
In this first case, another site could be another OCPS site other than your own, or it could be a site outside of OCPS. An example might be a reference … Read the rest
To Hide Section or to Hide Selection, That is the Question
When you open Page Status (under the Page Options menu), you see all the active child pages beneath the current page. Of course this is only one level down. So see the page under any child page, you have to … Read the rest
Links to District Provided Policy Documents
As part of my summer Getting Ready for the New School Year series, this post looks at some common policy documents provided and maintained by the district offices. You should always point to these documents for any policy references.
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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
Frequently Asked Questions About Accessible Images
Today’s blog post is from a guest contributor, Michael Graf. Michael is part of the OCPS legal department and is responsible for overseeing ADA compliance for the OCPS family of web sites. He reminds us all that ADA compliance within … Read the rest
School Web Site Main Page Review
I have not posted anything recently because I’ve been quite busy performing a ‘quick’ review of the home pages for the middle and high school web sites. Even though this review only addressed a few selected issues, it still took … Read the rest
Issues with Improperly Sized Banner Images
(and how to fix them)
First remember to resize images with the aspect ratio turned on. For the school banner, the aspect ratio is 680×305 or a factor of 2.23 horizontal pixels for every vertical pixel.
I’ve talked before that … Read the rest
What Use Are OneNote Tags?
There have not been a lot of posts to this blog site recently, so I decided to repeat one of my recent blog posts from my other blog site to not only give you something substantial to read, to learn, … Read the rest