{"id":473,"date":"2018-02-13T11:48:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T15:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2018-05-11T11:49:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T15:49:21","slug":"it-is-your-destiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/it-is-your-destiny\/","title":{"rendered":"It Is Your Destiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #444444; font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: 10pt;\">Back in November of 2017, we asked schools to check their links to Destiny as many links were either resulting in errors, prompting the user to log in or simply did not exist on the site.\u00a0 We have noticed that there is still a problem at many school sites with the link to Destiny.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444; font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: 10pt;\">It was discovered at that time that links that went to <a href=\"https:\/\/ocps.follettdestiny.com\/common\/welcome.jsp?site=xxx\"><span style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\">https:\/\/ocps.follettdestiny.com\/common\/welcome.jsp?site=xxx<\/span><\/a> where xxx was the school id number\u00a0prompted\u00a0the user to log in.\u00a0 However,\u00a0directing the Destiny link to <a href=\"http:\/\/destiny.ocps.net\/\"><span style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\">http:\/\/destiny.ocps.net<\/span><\/a> did not prompt for a login (this link points to a directory page of all OCPS schools from which your specific school can be selected).\u00a0 I know it is an inconvenience to your site&#8217;s visitors to have to select your school from this directory page when they already know what school they are on, but I am going to suggest that you set the link to <a href=\"http:\/\/destiny.ocps.net\/\"><span style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\">http:\/\/destiny.ocps.net<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444; font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: 10pt;\">If you do not have a link to Destiny, please add one.\u00a0 If you have another link that works both inside and outide of OCPS, great.\u00a0 Please report that in the comments to this blog.\u00a0 Otherwise, please\u00a0change your link to: <a href=\"http:\/\/destiny.ocps.net\/\"><span style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\">http:\/\/destiny.ocps.net<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November of 2017, we asked schools to check their links to Destiny as many links were either resulting in errors, prompting the user to log in or simply did not exist on the site.\u00a0 We have noticed that there is still a problem at many school sites with the link to Destiny. It &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/it-is-your-destiny\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It Is Your Destiny&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[50,40],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-related-specifically-to-school-sites","tag-links","tag-school-sites"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1100,"url":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/monsido-and-how-to-fix-broken-links\/","url_meta":{"origin":473,"position":0},"title":"Monsido and How to Fix Broken Links","author":"Carlos Hernandez","date":"April 29, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"This blog post will address by popular request how to use Monsido reports to fix broken links. 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Of Course You Can, With Care","author":"Carlos Hernandez","date":"December 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\u200bDo you want to have a\u00a0link on your public school site that lets\u200b your staff directly access your school collaboration information, your internal school calendar, internal documents, or other information?\u00a0 The recommended district solution to this request is to place an external link under Faculty and Staff with the Title:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ideas&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ideas","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/category\/something-to-think-about-related-to-web-sites\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ocps.net\/presenceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}