January 2006Colby College ITS Setting Up Course Pages

January 2006Colby College ITS Topics Course Pages –Getting to Your Course Page –Authoring –Page Preferences Main Page Content Resources Other Forums –Discussion area –Homework Drop

January 2006Colby College ITS Course Pages

January 2006Colby College ITS Your Course Page URL You will have received an from ITS notifying you of the availability of your course page. It contains the course page URL(s) in the format: Course number

January 2006Colby College ITS Accessing Your Page Open a browser and input the URL – academics_cs/courses/ ST298/index.cfmhttp://author.colby.edu/ academics_cs/courses/ ST298/index.cfm Click “Enter” or “Return” on your keyboard

January 2006Colby College ITS Log into the System Click on “LOGIN”

January 2006Colby College ITS Logging In

January 2006Colby College ITS CommonSpot Authoring Notice the Authoring icons: Display Options Page Management Modes & Authoring

January 2006Colby College ITS CommonSpot Icons Page & Template Management View Modes Knowledge Maps You will use these most often

January 2006Colby College ITS Author Mode Click on the “Modes and Authoring” icon Select “Author” on the dropdown menu This will allow you to make changes to your page

January 2006Colby College ITS Accessing Page Properties Click on “Page Properties” in the “Page Management” dropdown menu

January 2006Colby College ITS General Page Information The course number for your page is the default title and description You can change this and any other editable field on this page Click “Next” when you are done

January 2006Colby College ITS Custom Page Information This information is entered when the page is created It should not be changed The tabs across the top of the page give you access to other tabs where you can input content for your course page

January 2006Colby College ITS The Content Tab

January 2006Colby College ITS Content Goes to the Content Well Content Well

January 2006Colby College ITS Content Sections 1.Put content into your page using Content Sections 2.Each Content Section allows you to create and edit title and text areas 3.Content in the text box can include text, links to other URLs, documents and images

January 2006Colby College ITS To Create a Link Select the text you want to serve as the link Click on the Link Icon

January 2006Colby College ITS Select an Option "No Link" (default) "Link to Existing Page or File" links to another web page "Link to New Page or Template" links to a page that does not yet exist "Link to New Uploaded File" links to a document you wish to upload to the page " Link" creates a link that will open a user’s client when they click on it, and fill in the desired address.

January 2006Colby College ITS Special Content - Assignments Enable the Assignments element by checking the “Assignments” checkbox under the Content Tab Then click “Finish”

January 2006Colby College ITS Entering Assignments In “Author Mode”, click on the Pencil Icon under “Assignments” Click on “Select Rendering Mode” Click the “Preview” tab Click on “Click here to add new element…”

January 2006Colby College ITS Building an Assignment List (1) Iteratively enter assignments into this form You can enter assignments all at once or as you assign them

January 2006Colby College ITS Building an Assignment List (2) 1. Enter data 2. Click “OK”

January 2006Colby College ITS Building an Assignment List (3) 3. This is what you see on the page 4. Click on yellow “+” 5. Click on “Submit Entire Page..” to publish the change

January 2006Colby College ITS How Students will see the List

January 2006Colby College ITS The Resources Tab

January 2006Colby College ITS Resources go on the Right The Resource Container

January 2006Colby College ITS Resource Sections 1.Put content into your page using Content Sections 2.Each Content Section allows you to create and edit title and text areas 3.Content in the text box can include text, links to other URLs, documents and images

January 2006Colby College ITS Special Resource – Uploaded Documents Enable the Uploaded Documents element by checking the “Uploaded Documents” checkbox under the Resource Tab Then click “Finish”

January 2006Colby College ITS Uploading Documents (1) Click on the “Page and Template Management” icon Select “Upload New Document” Click “Next” in the Upload New Document window

January 2006Colby College ITS Uploading Documents (2) Browse to the file you want to upload on your laptop or desktop Enter a title for your document Click on the orange down arrow Click “Next” at the bottom of the screen

January 2006Colby College ITS Uploading Documents (3) Refresh your browser screen to force the Course Page to look in your Documents folder The uploaded documents now appear in the Resource space

January 2006Colby College ITS Image “Gallery” allows you to select an image from the combined site images “New” allows you to upload a new image

January 2006Colby College ITS Image Use the drop- down menus to select the area you want to browse for an image Review images and click to insert

January 2006Colby College ITS New Image Use the “Browse” option to select an image from your computer or media source to insert Do not check “Include in Public Image Gallery” unless you want others to have unlimited access to your image

January 2006Colby College ITS Creating Page Anchors You can insert an anchor into your page by using the “Element Name” function 1. Click on the layout properties icon 2. Select “Element Name” 3. Enter the anchor name you want in the dialog box 4. Click on “Finish” Return to “Creating a Link” training

January 2006Colby College ITS Editing Your Pages Select “My Pages” from the page management menu CommonSpot will display a list of all your pages Click on the one you want to edit Add, delete, edit as usual GO BACK

January 2006Colby College ITS Getting Students To Your Page At this point in time, course pages are NOT searchable on Colby’s web site In order for students to “find” your course page, you should: –Provide it to them in class –Have it “linked” to from your department web page

January 2006Colby College ITS Forums

January 2006Colby College ITS Page Preferences Menu