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Learn the basics of the editor, workarea, content and library tabs and how to find your content items.
Objectives:
Watch video
Learn the basics of the Ektron workarea
Locate the content tab and library tab
Locate your folder structure and view your content and library items
Notes:
The folder structure mirrors the structure of the SD Mines website.
You may see what look to be empty folders – these folders may contain library items (images and stored links), but library items do not show up unless you are working in the Library tab.
Each item has a name, date modified, the last person who edited it, and a status.
Webpages are called 'HTML Content' and they will be found in the Content tab in your section.
Step 1:
There are two tabs in the Workarea that SD Mines publishers will use:
1) CONTENT: where we store web pages and documents.
Navigate through the 'Content' folder structure
2) LIBRARY: where we store images.
Navigate through the 'Library' folder structure
Step 2:
Locate the folder you have publishing rights for: Navigate through the different areas until you find your own website section.
How to find your home pages:
Within the folder structure, it is usually the case that the home page to specific subject matter lives in the folder above whichever folder contains the main body of that information.
The home page of the Registrar’s Office (a content item named 'Registrar and Course Enrollment') lives in the 'Academics' folder. All of the other Registrar pages are located in the 'Registrar's' folder and its subfolders. You should have access to that introductory page as well - Contact MC if you do not have access.
How to find home pages for academic departments:
Academic Departments are structured differently. For an academic department, the home page or introductory page is in the department folder and its name is the name of the department.
Academic departments would click on the 'Content' folder, that folder would expand, then they’d click on the Academics folder, then the Departments folder, then the folder for their department.
Look at the content status:
Statuses are important because they help us determine whether or not another editor is currently editing that document. A is available, O means that it is checked out by someone else. If it is currently checked out by someone else it means that you do not currently have permissions to edit. You will need to wait for the other editor to finish editing, or request the editor to check-in the content item.
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