TerminalFour Training

Intro to T4 What is TerminalFour? Advantages over Ektron – Easier to use = less avoidance! – More features! Our website is really important 1.5 million visitors per month

Web Standards Lots of editors and lots of audiences – Students, prospective students, faculty, staff, parents, alumni, interested community members Will our site meet the needs of these audiences? Web content guidelines The website is a tool, not a junk drawer

Where to get help Seattleu.edu/terminal-four Access: Stuck somewhere?

Signing In Cms.seattleu.edu/terminalfour/

Dashboard

Lost? Return to Site Structure

Sections

T4 Terms Every page on Seattleu.edu = sections Sections look like folders Folder order = navigation menu order

Finding Your Section Sections are organized in folders

Adding a New Section Find section where you’d like to add a page – T4 Training Playground Click action-create section

Creating a New Section Add section name and description Click save changes when finished

Adding Content to the Section Find section in the Site Structure, click to open Click on the content tab-create new content

Let’s Add Content Content Types

Let’s Add Content Create New Content – Zone A, Zone B, Zone C

Zone A

Zone B

Zone C

Content Types Zone AZone BZone C Primary contentSecondary contentSupplemental content Faculty and Staff BioQuicklinks Feature contentVideo pop-up NewsCalendar Feed BlogCurated Events/News AudioBlog List

Let’s Add Content Content Types: filter by zone or name

Today: Primary Content (Zone A)

Add name Text Editor – Edit: cut, copy, paste, paste as text

Today: Primary Content – Insert: adding a link section link for everything seattleu.edu external link for everything not seattleu.edu)

Adding a Section Link – Section Link

Today: Primary Content – Format: Headlines, bolding, underlines, clear formatting

Accessing the Media Library

Media Library

Saving Your Content Save Changes = pending! Save and Approve = in the publish queue!

Adding More Content? Sections can contain multiple content items – Ex: Primary, Secondary, Supplemental – Ex: Slideshow, Primary, Audio The order of files appear in your section = how they appear on the page – To change the order: Content tab + order arrows to the left of content items

Previewing Content Action-preview

Editing Existing Content Find section + open content file

Other Content Types Content type descriptions are great Instructions on how to use different content types: – Seattleu.edu/terminal-four

Mirroring Content Mirror vs. Duplicate – Mirroring: one file. If you change the file, the change shows up everywhere the file does – Duplicate: Copying file. If you change the file, the change only shows up in that instance

Menus Menus are automatically updated by adding a new section Changing section orders in a menu – Section + more tab + subsections + order arrows

Adding Faculty/Staff Bios Adding bios adds summary list and full text/extended biography page

T4 Training Playground – Click on your section (or any section) – Content tab – create new content – Content type: faculty and staff bio Adding Faculty/Staff Bios

Fill out form fields – leave blank whatever information you don’t have Summary – appears on the Faculty and Staff page Extended Biography – Faculty/staff’s page Adding Faculty/Staff Bios

Adding Faculty and Staff Bios Add piece of content for each staff member

Where to get help More questions Access: