WCMS Online Editor Training

This online training is designed for those who maintain and update current sites in the Campus WCMS. This training is highly recommended for all new users of the Campus WCMS.

**NOTICE** You first need to have your website manager add you as a WCMS user. Once that's done, please submit an SlugHub ticket for login access to the "WCMS Classroom" site in the WCMS. Exercises cannot be completed without this.

To become sufficiently trained as a content editor, please review the following pages and complete the exercises. You will need to have two browser windows open: one for this training page and the other to log in to the WCMS and do the exercises below.

Training Curriculum

Intro to the WCMS

• What is a WCMS (watch the video at bottom of page)
• Logging In
• The WCMS Dashboard 
• Accessibility (Best Practices)

Exercise #1: Login/Dashboard (5 minutes)

• Menu Bar
• Asset Icons
• Folders
• All About Index Pages
• Types of Files/Pages
• Folder and File Naming 
• Creating a New Folder
• Moving/Renaming a File or Folder 
• Tables
• Uploading a File (Images, PDFs, etc.)
• Read about optimizing PDFs and Images
• Inserting an Image Using the WYSIWYG Editor
• Creating a Left Navigation Page or Page with No Left Navigation
• Deleting an Asset
• Your Recycle Bin

Exercise #2: Creating a Page (10 minutes) 

• Editing Your Page
• Inserting a Hyperlink
• Inserting an Anchor Link 
• Inserting a "Mailto" link
• Creating Lists and Bullets

Exercise #3: Editing Your Page (15 minutes)

• List Pages
• Gallery Pages
• Directory Page
• Featured Profile Page
• News and Events

Managing Your Left Navigation

• Adding Links to the Left Nav

Image Management

• Working with Images in WCMS
• Image Sizes in the WCMS

Exercise #4: Resizing an Image

Publishing

• Publishing and Unpublishing

Content Blocks

• About Content Blocks
• Department Title, Top Nav, & Footer Links

Please let us know when you are done with the online training so we can remove your access to the "WCMS Classroom" site.