First, Happy 100th post!
If you have just been assigned to work on your district department or school web site, you may be asking yourself where to begin. There is no quick 5-minute course on everything you need to … Read the rest
Hide Pages Under Development
When a page is being developed, if it is a new page, do not simply create the page and publish it without placing content on it. This results in a page that looks incomplete to visitors to the site.
After … Read the rest
SchoolMessenger Webinar Recording – 10/8/2018
Anyone who attended the live training webinar on October 8, 2018 should have received a link to the recorded session. Since then, we have downloaded the video and published it on our OCPS servers so that everyone, even those … Read the rest
Checking the Accessibility of your Documents
So now that you have created your Word document, how can you check if that document is accessible? There are many accessibility checkers available on the Internet. However, did you know that you have an accessibility checker built right into … 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
District Web Site Webinar by SchoolMessenger
Yesterday, August 13, 2018, we conducted the first of two detailed webinars for our Mastering your website series. You can currently access the recording of the webinar at the following URL by using your school credentials:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7706018895353682946
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Are You New to Web Site Management
It is that time of year that we see many new staff members being assigned the duty of updating/maintaining their district or school websites. For some, this may be their first exposure to managing a site. The district, along with … 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