Online School Training Support

In our "Working with Photographs" session, we covered how to optimise your school photos for use on your website. Based on that knowledge, we move on to adding those images to articles on the website itself. You will learn how to edit your article and choose and then add 'mast head' images, how to add in-story photos and how to make text wrap round the photos for a professional result.

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This session, intended for intermediate users, will introduce to the concepts of website menu management. All sites have menus and these are at the heart of navigation for your website. Without menus, visitors will never find your pages! It is helpful therefore to understand how to create new menu items for new pages as you add them, as well as how to hide/remove menu items that are no longer needed and also how to move menu items around.

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In this session, aimed at intermediate skill users, you will learn that users need to have login accounts with appropriate privileges to allow them to manage the website and its content. This session shows you how to create new users and work with existing users to ensure not only that the correct levels of access are granted but also to remove access for members of staff who have left the school.

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This  session will show you a very useful technique for dealing with lists of web links.  You will  have a recap on how to add web links to articles (which was covered in the Introduction to Articles  session)  and secondly you will find out how to use the Weblinks Manager to  create and manage links to other web sites and organize them into categories.

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Calendars of events  which happen in school  are frequently requested by parents.  Showing  what is happening in school on a week by week basis not only  articulates that  you have a busy environment but is also informative and helps parents to plan. This session will show you how to  add and manage your calendar of events in a proactive way.

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In this session you will  come to realise that your website administration control panel is the heart of everything you do when you manage your website.  In this session we will show you how to login,  explain the important areas of the control panel that you will work with,  help you understand any warning messages which you might see,  explain the different menu options that you can choose from to manage your site and, importantly,  you'll learn all about the concept of categories.

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The great majority of pages you see across your website are straightforward pages of text, sometimes supported by images, the occasional table and so on. These ‘pages’ are referred to as “Articles” and they are always found within the “Content” section of your Control Panel.

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Schools are finding pop-up website announcements really helpful in keeping parents aware of activities in school, without having to scroll or choose menu options to find out. This session will show you the tools you will need to use to create pop-up announcements and how you can make them appear and disappear in different ways and at different times.

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This 2 hour ZOOM video session is offered for administrators who frequently add and manage documents such as newsletters and policies on their websites.

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Photos can be added to your website but they will give your visitors a better experience if they are correctly optimised before you add them! This session covers the best practices of taking photos when using mobile or other camera devices and also introduces the use of a fabulous, free 3rd party application which runs on PCs and Macs and helps you to resize high resolution photos to work best on your website!

Note, we DON'T cover adding images to the site in this course!! If you want to learn how to add optimised images to your website, sit in on our "Adding Images to Articles" sessions.

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