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  • Managing membership of a Course, Project, or Club

    Go to the Profile Page of the Course, Project, or Club you administer, and click Membership in the right hand menu.  You’ll find two main areas. The major portion of the page (where all the avatars are), and the submenu just above them where you can accept Member Requests, Invite New Members, Email Members, or […]

  • Managing comments on your Site

    1. After you have created your site, you will often have to moderate and filter the comments that are made on the posts and pages on your site.  All comments made on your site are listed in a moderation queue accessible via your site Dashboard.  You can view these comments by going to your Dashboard and clicking Comments in the left-hand menu. 2. You can edit the settings […]

  • Managing users on your Site

    The site administrator has sole access to the full site Dashboard.  If you would like others to be able to post, edit, and/or manage posts, they will need to become members of your course, project, or club.  All members of a course, project, or club will have the ability to […]

  • Who can build a Site?

    Any faculty, staff, or student can create a site as part of a course (faculty only), project, or club.  The individual who creates the site will be that site’s Administrator and in charge of creating and managing the site content and site functions. 1. To create a site for a course (faculty only), project, or club, […]

  • Building blocks: posts, pages, widgets, and plugins

    The four basic “building blocks” for your site are the following: posts, pages, widgets, and plugins.  To add content to your site, you can use posts or pages.  To add functions to your site, you can use widgets and plugins.  In this section, you will find […]

  • Changing the appearance of your Site with themes

    1. Choosing a theme allows you to determine the visual aspects, or “look,” of your site.  You can change your site’s theme by going to your site Dashboard and clicking Appearance > Themes in the left-hand menu.  Additionally, you can customize your current theme by clicking Appearance > Themes and then clicking Customize underneath the […]

  • Creating pages on your Site (Classic)

    1. To create a page on your site, go to your site Dashboard and click Pages > Add New in the left-hand menu. 2. On the following screen, you will see a title line, a text box, and a formatting toolbar.  Here you can enter a title for your page and the content that you […]

  • Changing the menu on your Site

    With most themes, you can create custom menus on your site.  Custom menus give you the option of modifying how viewers access the particular content on your site.  For example, custom menus allow you to change where your page links appear on your site, they allow […]

  • Activating plugins on your Site

    Plugins add functionality to your course, project, or club site.  A plugin may allow you to create, manage, or edit features of your site that you cannot normally create, manage, or edit without the addition of a plugin.  You can view available plugins by going to your site Dashboard and clicking Plugins > Installed Plugins. […]

  • Categories & tags (Classic)

    Categories allow you to further organize the content of your site.  Careful categorization allows your site posts to be grouped together with other similar posts on your site.  This, in turn, helps users to better navigate your site.  Note that all site posts are filed under categories.  If you do not create your own post […]