Although a unique version of a page is saved automatically in the CMS version control system every time a page is published you may want to create a version manually. For example, after editing and saving a page several times you may want to save a version to have a point to revert to in case you do something wrong.
Pages and other content within Modern Campus CMS are located on a staging server. They must be published to be viewable on the live website. Images are automatically published during creation with the Image Editor and do not need to be manually published. You can only publish pages to which you have access. Some departments may be set up with an approval process in which another user must approve the file before it publishes.
Publishing can be done in a few ways.
You can customize the contact information that appears in the footer of your website. At a minimum, all websites are required to have a name that is linked and at least one form of contact—either a phone number or email address. This is only available in the _props.pcf file within the root folder for your site or the folder where navigation is restarted.
This snippet creates a row of buttons that link to other pages or websites. The default button style is the “blank” style. When hovering over the button it gets a gold fill. The button width changes to fit all buttons evenly in the available area and the height changes to fit all link text.
This snippet has been replaced with the Accordion Snippet.
This snippet creates a two- to five-column layout with the columns being evenly spaced in the available area or a two-column layout with one column being 2/3 of the space and the other 1/3. Text, images, videos, snippets, and assets can be added to each column. It can also be used to add a border around content.
This snippet should not be used to put bulleted lists or buttons into multiple columns. Instead, use the List Unordered Classes Snippet to split bulleted items into two or three columns or the Buttons in a Row Snippet to have up to five buttons next to each other horizontally.
Department blogs are a great way to push out your department-specific news to your website and keep your website fresh.
A number of departments routinely repost Tech Today announcements and that is great. Because Tech Today is meant for internal traffic only, we welcome users to repost that content without any reference or link to Tech Today. This will better serve our users by keeping them on external-facing websites and will save them a click. You should avoid using “from Tech Today” or “Read More at Tech Today.” Since Tech Today is internal, you don’t need to link back to it to avoid plagiarism.
Also, you are encouraged to remember these tips when creating blog posts:
Calendar Admins can use the Widget Builder to generate a URL to use in a CMS RSS Module or to generate embed code to put the widget on a website.
When a user is given access to a blog there are a number of roles to choose from. You should give the user the lowest level role for the functions they need to carry out. The following information will help define what the capabilities are for each role.
If you are a Michigan Tech Event Calendar admin you may have noticed the EventReach score when you are adding events to the system. What do that score and all the checklist items mean?
According to the system vendor, “EventReach is a way to measure the expected ‘reach,’ or audience awareness, an event has.” They have discovered that including certain information in your event listing has a huge impact on increasing awareness and attendance at events. EventReach is the tool they developed to quantify those pieces. This “reach” comes from Google/Search Engine Optimization (SEO), within the Michigan Tech Event Calendar, and through post-event engagement.