Introduction
The Manage Website tool lets you manage a SchoolSpeak created a public website for your school. SchoolSpeak designed websites allow you to take advantage of the power and easy maintenance that you already use in your SchoolSpeak Account. You can also easily share content your SchoolSpeak account on your Website.
How to Access the Manage Website Tool
Manage Website tool is listed in Account Configuration on the Admin Utilities page.
To access this tool as an account administrator:
- Go to Community Administration Utilities page by clicking [Admin] link on the top-left of any SchoolSpeak page.
- Select Manage Website in Account Configuration.
How to Set up Default Group and Website Menus
Like any other SchoolSpeak groups, you need to create a Website group and add all the related resources to this group. When you select the Website group from the left margin of SchoolSpeak Home page, you will see the added website resources.
Create Website Group
- Select the Edit Groups in Manage Groups on the Admin page.
- Click the Click to add new group link on the Edit Groups page. Now you see the New Group page.
- Click Add.
The different sections of Manage Website are:
Set/Update Default Group
You can set/update the group that you want as the default Home page of the website.
- Click the Set/Update Default Group link.
- Select the required group from the Select group drop-down list.
- Click Save. The selected group is set as the default page of the website.
Edit Website Menu
You can set up the parent menus and sub-menus of the website.
- Click the Edit Website Menu link.
Configure Parent Menu
- Click the Configure link in the respective page of the Parent Menu section. The Menu Details pop-up is displayed.Note: Displays the first page of the selected resource Based on the selected options of Clicking on this Menu drop-down list, the fields differ in the Menu Details pop-up.
- Update the menu details.
- Click Save to save the updated details.
Add Parent Menu
You can add parent menus using Add Menu functionality.
- Click Add Menu link at bottom-left of the page.
- Enter the name and select the other details.Note: Based on the selected options of Clicking on this Menu, the fields differ.
- Click Save. The menu is added to the page.Click Delete link to delete the parent menu. You see the delete confirmation message
Edit the Content of Submenu
- Click the Edit Content link in the respective page of the SubMenu section to edit the content of submenu.
- The page is displayed listing the records of all the submenus.
- Click the Edit link next to the record to edit the required record.
Add Submenu
You can add submenus when you want to add a record/page not related to the existing menus.
- Click the Add Submenu link in the respective page of the SunMenu section.
- Enter the name and select the other details. Note: Based on the selected options of Clicking on this Menu, the fields differ.
- Click Save. The submenu is added to the page.
Edit Website Contents
You can edit the contents of the parent menus and sub-menus of the website.
- Click the Edit Website Contents link . Note: Click Admin link to update the Website group details.
- Select the required resource from the left-margin. If you want to edit the content of News resource. You will see the records of the News resource.
- You can add new records to the resource using New.
- Click the Edit link next to the record to edit the required record. The page is displayed in edit mode.
- Update the record details and click Update.
View Website
You can view the contents of the website using the view website functionality. Clicking on View WebSite link displays the website of the school.