Trainings are on the first Thursdays of every month at 2 p.m.
Guides
SMC Training Videos
The Basics emphasizes accessibility and includes instructions on:
- Logging into the system Instructions: Instructions on How to Login to Edit the SMC Website
- Adding Headings Instructions: Instructions on Adding Headings to your SMC Webpage
- Adding Links Instructions: Instructions on Adding Links to the SMC Website
- Adding Images Instructions: Instructions on adding images on an SMC website
- Saving and Publishing Instructions: Instructions on how to publish your SMC web page.
Advanced Editing
- Editing Images Instructions: Instructions: How to edit images in the Modern Campus CMS
- CMS Gadgets Instructions: Modern Campus CMS Gadgets
Videos will be added weekly, so check back for updates.
Check the sample Snippets and Components for additional instructional videos.
Previous Recorded Training Sessions
- The Basics
- Tables
- Snippets
- Accordion Snippet
- Social Media
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Carousel Snippet
- The Basics
- Landing Pages
- Section Wrapper Snippet
- The Basics
- The Accordion Snippet and Tables
- The Basics
- The Call to Action Blue Button and components
- The basics
- A rundown of the Snippets
- The new (and improved) Video Component
July 7, 2022
Special focus on the SMC Foundation website (but useful for anyone)
Special focus on the SMC Foundation website (but useful for anyone)
- The basics
- Reminders and Stale Reminders
- Landing Pages (Section Wrapper Snippet)
- Creating new pages
- Assets
- Hero Section
- The basics
- How to check/change the Title tag (what appears in the "tab" of your browser window) and Breadcrumbs
- Tip: a quick way to change a URL to a Dependency Tag
- The Omni "Gadgets."
- The basics
- Hero section with or without an image
- Showcase of different Snippets and Components
- How Assets work
- How to use the reminders, stale reminders, and how to schedule publishing your pages in advance
- The basics. Demonstration on a "landing page."
Covered in the second hour:
- Grid Button snippet
- Updated "2 and 3 Columns" snippet
- New "Read More" snippet
- Review of new SMC Calendar
- Special Training on the new SMC Calendar
- Columns vs. Tables
- CTA Blue Button
- Accordions
- The new "Social Media Image" option in the page parameters.
- Special Tutorial for Academic Senate Committees - how to upload and link to Agendas and Minutes.
- Changing the Hero section
- Grid Button Snippet (new and improved)
- Inline Quote Component
- Scheduling in advance publishing a page
- Reminders - so you don't have to remember
- Document Management
- Image Editing
- How to reduce PDF file size.
- The Accordion Snippet
- Tables inside Accordions. The Default Table Snippet.
- Uploading files to a "documents" folder.
- Moving, copying, renaming files.
- New Snippets: Contact Box and Program List
- Updated Snippets: Accordion and Carousel with automatic heading updates.
- Discussion of Landing Page hero section and video backgrounds and the Calendar.
- Learn what’s needed to promote programs and initiatives on the national award-winning SMC website and social media channels.
- This will include information on what marketing efforts are done for these two areas, as well as timeline/planning, content, and accessibility requirements
- Dependency Tags
- Why we need to use them.
- Shortcuts to find them.
Modern Campus CMS Training Videos
- Monthly Orientation; Content Editors
- Training Tuesdays: Once a month at 11 a.m.
Design Tools
- Assets – pre-made, specific content that can go on many pages, like forms and embed codes.
- Components – form-based templates, like buttons, galleries, and buttons
- Snippets – table-based templates, like accordions, carousels, and tables.