How Do I Modify My CV, Edit Content, Upload Documents & More?

The redesign of the York Website has been completed and we appreciate your ongoing patience as we squash bugs and add functionality. This document aims to help you acclimate to some of the modification that we've made to editing your content. The narrative and screenshots below illustration how to login to the York Website and to personalize your dashboard, making content management easier and more productive.

Logging Into The "New" Website

On the upper right corner of every page in the website you will find a black tab with a white disclosure triangle labeled "Logins".

login graphic

 

 

 

 

Clicking on Logins activates a drop down menu giving you access to campus and university wide systems such as Email, SIMS, & Content Management to name a few.

For this exercise, we are going to select the last item on the drop down list labeled York Website/CMS. This is the "door" by which you enter the College's Content Management System (CMS/Website).

Select York College Website/CMS From Drop down


CMS Login Link


Click/Select this link (York Website/CMS) by mousing over it.
 

What to do Next? Logging in Using Your York Network ID Credentials

Login Window

The above login splash page will appear after you've selected York Website/CMS from the dropdown menu.

Enter your York ID credentials and press return or click the ok button.

Note, The City University of New York requires all computer system passwords to expire every 60 days.

Note: Password maintenance can be performed (resetting, updating, challenge phrases etc) 24/7
by accessing www.york.cuny.edu/password.

Your Personal Dashboard Page:

How Do I Modify My CV, Edit Content, Upload Documents & More?

Successful Login Equals:

A successful login will present you with a web page that is similar to the one above. You will find useful links to your:

  • Dashboard Preferences
  • Documents You've Created
  • Your Home Folder
  • CV and/or P&B Actions (if applicable)
  • Reviewing P&B Documents (again, if applicable)

At this point you should be familiar with the login procedure and be able to now edit/modify/create documents as you did in the old design. I

If you arrive at an impasse or would like human led assistance, please contact the Service Desk at x5300 and schedule a one on one session with the Web Team.

Addable Content Types

Announcement

An announcement that will show up on the news portlet and in the news listing. if it is happen in a specific time and place in the future it should be added as an Event not an announcement. These are automatically added to Facebook, twitter and the student eportfolio sites when published.

Classifieds / OrderedClassifieds

Online Classifieds and posting, for the student posting

Collection

An always-updated saved search that can be used to display items matching criteria you specify.

Event

Events can be shown in calendars and upcoming events listing (includes FYE events).

FAQ

A frequently asked questions list.

Feature

An image, which can be referenced in documents or displayed in an album.

File

Lets you upload a file to the site. any non-web image file (ex. PDF, MOV, MP4, MP3, DOC, PPT, etc)

  • if a pdf is uploaded the system will try to render the file with in the view page (if pdf supported)
  • if a mov, mp4, flv, a video player is created automatically in the page view
  • if a mp3, a audio player is created automatically in the page view

Folder

a container like the file system

Form Folder

A web form creation tool, A folder which can contain form fields. (only admin can add this type)

Image

Images can be referenced in documents or displayed in an album. web format only (JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF)

Link / Redirect

Links to an internal or external resource. Link items are annotated URLs.

Message Board

Ploneboard is the out most board object, what shows up in your site.

News Item

An announcement that will show up in news listings. News Items are automatically added to Facebook, twitter and the student eportfolio sites when published.

Page

a web page. if it is happen in a specific time and place in the future it should be added as an Event not a page.

Survey

You can add questions to surveys. (only admin can add this type)

bulletinPage

Non-degree program webpage used for the web and printed bulletin. has different fields, workflow and permissions from a regular page

programPage

degree program webpage used for the web and printed bulletin. has different fields, workflow and permissions from a regular page

Carousel / Banner

rotating banners appears on  the every page or default page in a folder or. user selectable options includes transition, title, description, link, number, next/previous, etc

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