1. Welcome Back!
To preview what we are going to do this afternoon, please go to this website
Read the announcement on the first page, and follow the instructions in RED on each page in the website.
If you finish early, take some time to gather some more Materials & Resources.

2. SASIT 1 Training
Teacher Tools

3. Admin Tools
A collection of administrative tools for those users who will have administrative access to SAS.
User Management
Content Submission
Peer Review
At this point it has not been determined who will have access to the Admin Tools sections of the site. PDE will be making decisions regarding access, and will notify individuals who will be trained to utilize these tools.

4. My Profile
The information provided in this section will be used to manage your SAS account:
Manage personal information
Identify professional interests
Change a password
This area will be expanded to include additional user information, such as school/district affiliation, school/district mailing address and website address.

5. Portal Time – My Profile
Click on Teacher Tools
Select My Profile

6. My ePortfolio A web-based, portable filing cabinet
Create organizational folders
Add resources
Add to My ePortfolio
Upload File
Add Bookmark
You can store virtually any file you want – word processing, presentations, spreadsheets, images – as long as it is already saved to your computer or another storage device. There are two file types that cannot be saved to the ePortfolio; HTML files (.html, .htm) files and Bitmap image files (.bmp).

7. Portal Time – My ePortfolio
Click on Teacher Tools
Select My ePortfolio

8. My Website
Develop a classroom website to enhance communication between students, parents, and colleagues.
Modify the site to reflect:
Specific classes you teach
Events relevant to your class or school
Resources you want available for yourself, colleagues, students, and/or parents

9. Default Website
These are the default settings for a SAS website. All users start out with a blue header with the SAS circles logo, one page (the Home Page) and a dark blue background surrounding the web pages. These settings are modified on the Website Settings tab in the My Website section of the portal.

10. Your Website Address
Betty Teacher’s address, and therefore username, is
SAS website addresses are all similar
Betty’s website address would be
The first half of a user’s address (before symbol) is used as a portion of the website address.

11. Disabled Websites All websites are disabled by default
Educational Use Only
Does not violate the rights of others
Does not contain abusive, vulgar, or objectionable language
Does not encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense
Does not contain any solicitation for products or services
Websites are disabled until a user logs into the SAS portal and enables their website on the Website Builder tab in the My Website section of the portal.
There is a Terms of Use statement that users must agree with before they can build a site. It can be accessed from the Footer menu in the portal. We have had instances in the past with other projects where a teacher has lost website privileges for creating websites with overt religious, racist, or political themes (e.g., to share a grievance regarding a teacher union issue).

12. Portal Time – My Website
Click on Teacher Tools
Select My Website

13. Custom Page Header and Copyright
The Custom Page Header will appear in at least 2 places – in the heading of the site itself, and also in the Title Bar of the window. If you are working in a tabbed web browser, such as Firefox or Internet Explorer 8, the header text may also appear on the tab.
The Copyright Statement will appear to the bottom-right of every page within the website.

14. SAS Rich-Text Editor
The rich-text editor operates very much like a typical word processing program. The Title of a Page appears above the editor, and can be changed at any time. Whatever information is typed into the editor below the toolbars (where the text ‘Type here…” appears) is visible on this page in the website. Advanced users can click on HTML in the bottom toolbar to edit their pages using HTML coding (Hypertext Markup Language) This slide is animated, and pictures will layer as your advance the slide.
The two questions at the bottom of the editor are important. “Show this page on your website menu?” is checked by default. This allows the page to be visible in the list of pages on the Website Builder tab. “Make this webpage available online?” is unchecked by default. Users should place a checkmark in that box when they are ready to share this page online with visitors to their website.

15. Teacher Tools: Check For Understanding
Create a website
Include (at minimum):
1 page
1 sub-page
2 images
2 hyperlinks (1 to SAS content, 1 to a site on the Internet)
1 uploaded file
1 announcement
Be prepared to share with the group!