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Create a Course Website with Google Sites

This Deep Dive in Google Sites for Teachers is in response to many asking for a more in depth tutorial on how Google Sites can be used by teachers and students. 


We go over everything available in Google Sites and you can see every element, how to insert it and what it will look like when you've finished.

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TimeStamps:

0:00 Intro

0:30 Why Google Sites?

0:55 Create your Google Sites

1:40 Use Google Sites Templates

2:15 Upload Domain wide Templates for staff and students

3:20 Edit the Page Header

3:45 Header Types

4:10 Header images

5:00 Add pages to your website

5:20 Add nested (Sub) pages

5:50 Re arrange pages in Google Sites

6:50 Preview the Website 

7:10 Change the Navigation style

7:40 Add a logo and Favicon

8:30 Announcement Banner for important messages

9:20 Add a button to the announcement

10:40 Use a Theme in Google Sites

11:20 Change the fonts of headers and text

11:50 Add a footer to your website

12:30 Add links to the footer

13:00 All about sections on Google Sites

13:40 Insert content

14:00 Insert Layout styles (Section templates)

14:50 Moving sections around

15:20 Change the section background

16:10 Insert a YouTube video

18:20 Insert a collapsable 

18:50 Other elements to insert

19:14 Insert Image carrousel

20:20 Insert a Button

21:00 Why use a button instead of the navigation

21:25 Hide page from navigation

22:00 Build templates with placeholders

22:30 Insert Google Calendar (Calendar and Classroom)

23:15 Insert Google Files (Sheets, Slides, Docs, Forms)

24:10 Insert Other websites and programs

26:00 Add collaborators

27:00 Viewer Settings and contact form

28:20 Revision history (version history)

28:40 Duplicate Website

28:55 Give Google feedback and suggestions

29:30 Publish your Website (Public or domain wide)

30:50 See the viewer tools in action

31:05 Unpublish the website

31:30 Review publish updates

32:00 Summary