1. Editing Your Faculty Homepage
This tutorial will go through the steps for editing your Faculty homepage.
Thank you to Ryan Vyborny for letting me use his faculty webpage as an example.
Photo by Phillip Ulrickson
1989 – Lower Falls of the Yellowstone

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Go to the school home page (
At the top right of the webpage, click “Sign In”.

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Type in your User Name & Password and click the “Sign In” button underneath your password.

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This now takes you back to the GCHS website.
You will now see “Site Manager” & “My Account” at the top right of the webpage.
Click “Site Manager”.

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This takes you to a new window for the editing portion of the website.
You will see the Channels of the website that you have access. Depending on your privileges, you will be able to click on the Channel(s) associated with your Department, Club, and/or Faculty position.

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If you have access to more than one Channel, you will see all of those channels available in the left column. For editing your Faculty homepage, you will want to be in the “Faculty” Channel, which is the default screen as you log in. If you are somehow in one of the other Channels, click on your name in the left column to get to your “Faculty” pages.
If you do not have access to more than one Channel, your default screen is your “Faculty” channel and you will see your “Faculty” pages.

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You should now be at your “Faculty” page. You should see the two or three default pages (depending on your faculty position):
“Welcome”
“Homework Assignments” (this is optional)
“Class Calendar”
Within the “Welcome” page there are actually three applications set up as the default:
“Announcements App” (Announcements App)
“Flex App” (Flex Editor App)
“Biography” (Flex Editor App)

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Department Page Channel
Click mouse on “Welcome”
Faculty Pages Available
Faculty Page Channel

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Click on the page called “Welcome”. The page that shows up now shows all of the applications within the “Welcome” page. In this example, there are 3 applications. Click the “Flex Editor App” box. This is where your contact information is located along with your picture & class schedule.
If your room # or phone # is incorrect, go ahead and change them as needed.

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This box pops up after clicking the “Welcome” page
Applications available within the “Welcome” page
Click the “Flex Editor App” box

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Change your room # or phone # if needed.

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To change your picture, hover your mouse over your existing picture and left-click the picture one time. This will select the picture and you will see a box with dots around the picture.
If you do not currently have a picture on your page, move your mouse over to the cell where the words “insert photo” are located and left-click in that cell.
Click the “Insert Image” icon on the left of the editor screen right above the word “Welcome”.
Follow the instructions on the next slides.

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Click your picture or click in the cell next to the text “insert photo”.
Click the “Insert Image” icon above the word “Welcome”.

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Click the “Browse” button to find the picture you want to upload.
Check the “Medium Size” option after you finish browsing.
You then come to the “Insert Image” screen.
Click the “Continue” button when finished.

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Now you must enter “Alternative Text” for the picture.
The default pixel size will be 400 in height or 300 in width.

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“Picture Name” is what I’ve chosen as the “Alternative Text”.
Click the “Insert Image” button to insert the image and exit back to the “Flex Editor”.
Make sure the pixel numbers are either 313 in height or 250 in width.

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Back at the “Flex Editor” page showing the new inserted photo.

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If you wish to use an existing image for your profile picture, enter the “Insert Image” page the same way as mentioned before.
If you can’t remember the steps to get you to the “Insert Image” page follow the next few slides as shown.

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Click your picture or click in the cell next to the text “insert photo”.
Click the “Insert Image” icon above the word “Welcome”.

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Back at the “Insert Image” page.
Click “Existing Image” to choose from an existing image already uploaded.

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Any existing images will show up here.
Select the image you wish to use.
Click the “Continue” button when finished choosing your photo.

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Now you must enter “Alternative Text” for the picture.
The default pixel size will be 400 in height or 300 in width.

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“Ryan Vyborny” is what I’ve chosen as the “Alternative Text”.
Click the “Insert Image” button to insert the image and exit back to the “Flex Editor”.
Make sure the pixel numbers are either 313 in height or 250 in width.

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Back at the “Flex Editor” page showing the new inserted photo.

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To insert a link from any of your pages to a website location, follow the steps given in the next few slides.
For our example, let’s add a link to a GCHS webpage for our AP Psychology class.

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Click the “Insert Link” icon.
Highlight the text where the link will be.

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You are now at the “Insert Link” page.

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Click on “Choose A Site” and select “Greeley Central High School” from the drop-down menu.

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Click on “Choose A Channel” and select “Departments” from the drop-down menu.

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Click on “Choose A Section” and select “Social Sciences/History” from the drop-down menu.

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I realize that AP U.S. Government is NOT AP Psychology but at the time I was creating this there were no AP Psych pages……
Click on “Choose A Page” and select “AP U.S. Government” from the drop-down menu.

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Back at the “Flex Editor” page showing the new inserted link.

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While still in the “Flex Editor”, scroll down to the Class Schedule table and enter your 1st Semester classes & room #’s.
When finished modifying your “Flex Page”, click “Save” at the top left of the page.
The “Save” button will change to say “Working” and will change back to “Save” when it is finished.
Click the “X” at the top right of the window or hit “Cancel” at the top left of the window to return back to your Faculty Section pages.

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Click “Save”
Click “Cancel” or the “X” to Exit the Flex App
Enter your classes & room #’s

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Now let’s add an announcement using the “Announcements App” under the “Welcome” page.
If you are not already inside the “Welcome” page, click the “Welcome” page again and select the grey “Announcements App” application box.

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Click mouse on “Welcome”
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This box pops up after hovering over the “Welcome” page
Click the “Announcements App” box.

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At the “Announcements App”, click the “New Announcement” button at the top left.

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First enter the “Name” of the announcement. In this example, we’ll use “AP Psychology Starts TODAY!”.
Next, we need to enter the actual announcement.

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Click the “Display Duration” tab.
The announcement page after entering the required input.

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Enter the “Start Date” and the “End Date” for the announcement.
When finished, click the “Save” button at the bottom left.

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FYI:
Clicking the boxes for the dates will bring up a calendar for you to choose the dates you wish to use, or you can just type in the date.

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Click the “Welcome Page” link on the navigation pane to get back to the “Welcome Page” or click the house icon to get back to your home “Faculty” pages.

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Now let’s edit your “Biography” page.
Hover your mouse over the “Welcome” page and select the grey “Biography” Flex Editor application box.

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Click on the “Welcome” page
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This box pops up clicking the “Welcome” page
Click the “Biography” Flex Editor App box.

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Move your mouse to the end of the “More to come!” underneath “Biography” and left-click in the cell. Start typing your biography.
Do the same for “Personal Message”

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A finished biography page. Click “Save” in the top left when finished.

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Now let’s add a homework assignment to your “Faculty” page.
If you are at the “Welcome” page, click the house icon on the navigation panel to get back to the “Home” page.
Once at the “Home” page click the “Homework Assignments” page and select the grey “Assignments App” application box.
We’ll add homework for AP Psychology - homework #1.

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Click on “Homework Assignments”
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At the “Homework Assignments” application, click the “New Assignment” button at the top left.

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First enter the “Title” of the assignment. In this example, we’ll use “AP Psychology - homework #1”.
Next, we need to choose our “Assignment Category”. Click the drop-down menu & select “Homework1”.
Next, we need to enter the “Date Assigned” (defaults to today’s date) and the “Due Date”.

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Click the “Directions” tab.
The “General” tab of the assignment page after entering the required input.

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Type in the assignment directions. You may also enter links to websites or links to files using the icons circled in yellow.

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Click the “Post To Calendar” tab.
The “Directions” tab of the assignment page after entering the required input.

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Looks like I get the Extra Credit!!!!!!

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To add the assignment to your Class Calendar (or other calendars), check the box next to “Add to Calendar”.

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Click the drop-down box for the “Calendar” to post to and also the “Category” of the calendar event (homework, quiz, staff meeting, etc.)
When finished, click the “Save” button at the bottom left.

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Click house icon to get back to the “Faculty” pages.

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Click the assignment on the website to see what the details are.
Here is the website page after creating the homework assignment.

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Here are the details for the homework assignment created.
Click the “Class Calendar” link to see the assignment on the calendar.

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In this example, I clicked on “AP Psychology” on August 19.
Here is the calendar entry after creating the homework assignment. This is shown on the “Class Calendar” on your homepage and clicking on the assignment on the appropriate date.

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This concludes this portion of the tutorial for editing your faculty homepage.
If you need further assistance, please don’t hesitate to call or me.
Phillip Ulrickson
(Library)