Google Sites at School

Post date: Nov 14, 2011 2:35:56 PM

Links to Google Sites

You can access Google Sites from any of your school Google Apps product pages.

1. In the top left corner of any product main page, you will see a list of links.

1. Click Sites.

In addition to the links at the top left of any Google Apps page, you can also access Google Sites through a custom URL for your school:

1. Type http://sites.google.com/a/westforkschool.org into your browser address bar. Please replace yourschool.org with your school Apps domain name

Browse Google Sites at your school

When you see your school's Google Sites page, you will see a list of your sites on your school's domain. These are sites that you own or have been given access to.

Please note: These are sites that are created at westforkschool.org on the domain sites.google.com/a/westforkschool.org.

This list will NOT have sites that you created using a Gmail or non-Google Apps account. Those sites are created under sites.google.com/site/ and will not appear in your school Google Apps list. In order to access sites created outside your domain, you will need to go to https://sites.google.com/site/sites/.

You can also browse all the sites created on your school's domain by scrolling to the bottom of your list and clicking Browse sites within westforkschool.org »

From here, you will see a list of categories. Categories are added to sites by site owners. You can click on a category to view sites that have been tagged with that category.

Categories allow you to group related sites and make them accessible together within the popular categories list. Categories are deemed popular when they contain more than five sites. This setting does not affect search results.

At this point, you will see a list of sites under the heading Sites categorized as ...

Each line will have a site name (linked to the site homepage), the categories for the site (if available), and a site description (if available).

You can click on other categories on the left size to view more lists of sites.

Search Google Sites at your school

You can use Google search to find content within your sites or within all the sites at your school.

To search for information on your sites:

1. Go to Google Sites for your school (either clicking the Sites link in the top left of any Apps page or going to http://sites.google.com/a/westforkschool.org).
2. Click inside the search box in the top right corner of your sites list.
3. Enter the terms for your search.
4. Choose from the drop down menu whether you want to search just your sites (listed on that page) or all the sites available at your school.

1. Click Search my sites or Search all sites.

The search results will highlight sites, pages, images, or files that relate to your search terms. Depending on which selection you chose, it will return results either from your sites or from all the sites in your school domain.