1. Editing Your Faculty Homepage  This tutorial will go through the steps for editing your Faculty homepage.  Thank you to Ryan Vyborny for letting me use his faculty webpage as an example.

2. Editing Your Faculty Homepage  Go to the GCHS website (www.central.greeleyschools.org).  At the top right of the webpage, click “Sign In”.

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4.  Type in your User Name & Password and click the “Sign In” button underneath your password.

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6.  This now takes you back to the GCHS website.  You will now see “Site Manager” & “My Account” at the top right of the webpage.  Click “Site Manager”.

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8. Editing Your Faculty Homepage  This takes you to a new window for the editing portion of the website.  You will see the Channels of the website that you have access. Depending on your privileges, you will be able to click on the Channel(s) associated with your Department, Club, and/or Faculty position.

9. Editing Your Faculty Homepage  If you have access to more than one Channel, you will see all of those channels available in the left column. For editing your Faculty homepage, you will want to be in the “Faculty” Channel, which is the default screen as you log in. If you are somehow in one of the other Channels, click on your name in the left column to get to your “Faculty” pages.  If you do not have access to more than one Channel, your default screen is your “Faculty” channel and you will see your “Faculty” pages.

10. Editing Your Faculty Homepage  You should now be at your “Faculty” page. You should see the two or three default pages (depending on your faculty position):  “Welcome”  “Homework Assignments” (this is optional)  “Class Calendar”  Within the “Welcome” page there are actually three applications set up as the default:  “Announcements App” (Announcements App)  “Flex App” (Flex Editor App)  “Biography” (Flex Editor App)

11. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Department Page Channel Faculty Page Channel Faculty Pages Available Hover mouse over “Welcome”

12. Editing Your Faculty Homepage  After hovering your mouse over the top of the Page title “Welcome” a window will pop up that shows you all of the applications within that page.  Once this pop-up window shows up, move your mouse over the top of the grey “Flex Editor App” box. Click the “Flex Editor App” box. This is where your contact information is located along with your picture & class schedule.  If your room # or phone # is incorrect, go ahead and change them as needed.

13. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Applications available within the “Welcome” page Click the “Flex Editor App” box This box pops up after hovering over the “Welcome” page

14. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Change your room # or phone # if needed.

15. Editing Your Faculty Homepage  To change your picture, hover your mouse over your existing picture and left-click the picture one time. This will select the picture and you will see a box with dots around the picture.  If you do not currently have a picture on your page, move your mouse over to the cell where the words “insert photo” are located and left-click in that cell.  Click the “Insert Image” icon on the left of the editor screen right above the word “Welcome”.  Follow the instructions on the next slides.

16. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Click your picture or click in the cell next to the text “insert photo”. Click the “Insert Image” icon above the word “Welcome”.

17. Editing Your Faculty Homepage You then come to the “Insert Image” screen. Click the “Browse” button to find the picture you want to upload. Check the “Medium Size” option after you finish browsing. Click the “Continue” button when finished.

18. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Now you must enter “Alternative Text” for the picture. The default pixel size will be 400 in height or 300 in width.

19. Editing Your Faculty Homepage “Picture Name” is what I’ve chosen as the “Alternative Text”. Make sure the pixel numbers are either 313 in height or 250 in width. Click the “Insert Image” button to insert the image and exit back to the “Flex Editor”.

20. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Back at the “Flex Editor” page showing the new inserted photo.

21. Editing Your Faculty Homepage  If you wish to use an existing image for your profile picture, enter the “Insert Image” page the same way as mentioned before.  If you can’t remember the steps to get you to the “Insert Image” page follow the next few slides as shown.

22. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Click your picture or click in the cell next to the text “insert photo”. Click the “Insert Image” icon above the word “Welcome”.

23. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Back at the “Insert Image” page. Click “Existing Image” to choose from an existing image already uploaded.

24. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Any existing images will show up here. Select the image you wish to use. Click the “Continue” button when finished choosing your photo.

25. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Now you must enter “Alternative Text” for the picture. The default pixel size will be 400 in height or 300 in width.

26. Editing Your Faculty Homepage “Ryan Vyborny” is what I’ve chosen as the “Alternative Text”. Make sure the pixel numbers are either 313 in height or 250 in width. Click the “Insert Image” button to insert the image and exit back to the “Flex Editor”.

27. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Back at the “Flex Editor” page showing the new inserted photo.

28. Editing Your Faculty Homepage  To insert a link from any of your pages to a website location, follow the steps given in the next few slides.  For our example, let’s add a link to a GCHS webpage for our AP Psychology class.

29. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Highlight the text where the link will be. Click the “Insert Link” icon.

30. Editing Your Faculty Homepage You are now at the “Insert Link” page.

31. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Click on “Choose A Site” and select “Greeley Central High School” from the drop-down menu.

32. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Click on “Choose A Channel” and select “Departments” from the drop-down menu.

33. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Click on “Choose A Section” and select “Social Sciences/History” from the drop-down menu.

34. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Click on “Choose A Page” and select “AP U.S. Government” from the drop-down menu. I realize that AP U.S. Government is NOT AP Psychology but at the time I was creating this there were no AP Psych pages……

35. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Back at the “Flex Editor” page showing the new inserted link.

36. Editing Your Faculty Homepage  Scroll down to the Class Schedule table and enter your 1 st Semester classes & room #’s.  When finished modifying your “Flex Page”, click “Save” at the top left of the page.  The “Save” button will change to say “Working” and will change back to “Save” when it is finished.  Click the “X” at the top right of the window or hit “Cancel” at the top left of the window to return back to your Faculty Section pages.

37. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Enter your classes & room #’s Click “Save”Click “Cancel” or the “X” to Exit the Flex App

38. Editing Your Faculty Homepage  Now let’s add an announcement using the “Announcements App” under the “Welcome” page.  Hover your mouse over the “Welcome” page and select the grey “Announcements App” application box.

39. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Faculty Pages Available Hover mouse over “Welcome”

40. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Click the “Announcements App” box. This box pops up after hovering over the “Welcome” page

41. Editing Your Faculty Homepage At the “Announcements App”, click the “New Announcement” button at the top left.

42. Editing Your Faculty Homepage First enter the “Name” of the announcement. In this example, we’ll use “AP Psychology Starts TODAY!”. Next, we need to enter the actual announcement.

43. Editing Your Faculty Homepage The announcement page after entering the required input. Click the “Display Duration” tab.

44. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Enter the “Start Date” and the “End Date” for the announcement. When finished, click the “Save” button at the bottom left.

45. Editing Your Faculty Homepage FYI: Clicking the boxes for the dates will bring up a calendar for you to choose the dates you wish to use, or you can just type in the date.

46. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Click the “X” in the top right corner to exit back to the “Faculty” pages.

47. Editing Your Faculty Homepage  Now let’s edit your “Biography” page.  Hover your mouse over the “Welcome” page and select the grey “Biography” Flex Editor application box.

48. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Faculty Pages Available Hover mouse over “Welcome”

49. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Click the “Biography” Flex Editor App box. This box pops up after hovering over the “Welcome” page

50. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Move your mouse to the end of the “More to come!” underneath “Biography” and left-click in the cell. Start typing your biography. Do the same for “Personal Message”

51. Editing Your Faculty Homepage A finished biography page. Click “Save” in the top left when finished.

52. Editing Your Faculty Homepage  Now let’s add a homework assignment to your “Faculty” page.  Hover your mouse over the “Homework Assignments” page and select the grey “Assignments App” application box.  We’ll add homework for AP Psychology - homework #1.

53. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Faculty Pages Available Hover mouse over “Homework Assignments”

54. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Click the “Assignments App” box. This box pops up after hovering over the “Homework Assignments” page

55. Editing Your Faculty Homepage At the “Homework Assignments” application, click the “New Assignment” button at the top left.

56. Editing Your Faculty Homepage First enter the “Title” of the assignment. In this example, we’ll use “AP Psychology - homework #1”. Next, we need to enter the “Date Assigned” (defaults to today’s date) and the “Due Date”. Next, we need to choose our “Assignment Category”. Click the drop-down menu & select “Homework1”.

57. Editing Your Faculty Homepage The “General” tab of the assignment page after entering the required input. Click the “Directions” tab.

58. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Type in the assignment directions. You may also enter links to websites or links to files using the icons circled in yellow.

59. Editing Your Faculty Homepage The “Directions” tab of the assignment page after entering the required input. Click the “Post To Calendar” tab.

60. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Looks like I get the Extra Credit!!!!!!

61. Editing Your Faculty Homepage To add the assignment to your Class Calendar (or other calendars), check the box next to “Add to Calendar”.

62. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Click the drop-down box for the “Calendar” to post to and also the “Category” of the calendar event (homework, quiz, staff meeting, etc.) When finished, click the “Save” button at the bottom left.

63. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Click the “X” in the top right corner to exit back to the “Faculty” pages.

64. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Here is the website page after creating the homework assignment. Click the assignment on the website to see what the details are.

65. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Here are the details for the homework assignment created. Click the “Class Calendar” link to see the assignment on the calendar.

66. Editing Your Faculty Homepage Here is the calendar entry after creating the homework assignment. This is shown on the “Class Calendar” on your homepage and clicking on the assignment on the appropriate date. In this example, I clicked on “AP Psychology” on August 19.

67. Editing Your Faculty Homepage  This concludes this portion of the tutorial for editing your faculty homepage.  If you need further assistance, please don’t hesitate to call or email me.  Phillip Ulrickson  pulrickson@greeleyschools.org pulrickson@greeleyschools.org  970-348-5191 (Library)