RedDot Training and Open House Sessions: Fall 2009

Web Services will offer training for the RedDot Content Management System, as well as Open House sessions to answer questions about using the CMS, the Web, or the following topics: Web Content Usability, Web Statistics, CampusCruiser, and Live Chat.

Attendees to either Author/Editor or Open House sessions must register no later than 24 hours before the session.

Training Option 1: Author/Editor Training

For users who will be editing and updating content on their web site. This 2 hour introduction to the RedDot Content Management System covers

• Editing existing content
• Creating new content pages and FAQ-style pages
• Using the Text Editor
• Linking to pages, files, and images
• Version control
• Submitting your content to workflow for review, approval and publishing

Note: Attendance to the full 2 hour training session is required for access to the system.

Attendees should download the Web Content Provider’s Guide and bring it to class. This manual is updated periodically.

Author/Editor training Location, Dates, and Times:

All sessions will be held in the ITS Training Room on the 7th floor of the Sawyer Building from 2 - 4:00 pm.

Tuesday, November 17th
Tuesday, December 8th  

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Training Option 2: Open House Q & A

We invite you to drop in with any RedDot or web site questions to work one-to-one with a member of our team. It’s usually helpful if you have previously taken Author/Editor Training. 

Open House sessions can answer basic questions about using the RedDot system or more specific topics including:

• Web Content Usability
  Having information to put on the Web is one thing. Making that content available to the people who need it, and putting it in a form they can use is another matter. Before you attend, please download and read the Web Content Usability Guide.

• Campus Cruiser Overview
  Become familiar with all the tools and capabilities of the web portal. Learn to retrieve Suffolk email, create working groups, committees, to-do lists and tasks with priority assignments within a secure environment, organize your calendar(s) to include both personal calendar information as well as scheduled events.

• Web Statistics Overview
  Learn the basics about what Web statistics can and can’t tell you, and discover how to use Google Analytics to find the stats for your site or page.

• Live Chat
  Chat rooms offer an opportunity to communicate with others by simultaneously sharing information, in the form of text messages, with a group of other users. Find out if it’s the right technology for your communications or community-building activities. 

Open House Location, Dates, and Times:

All Open House sessions will be held in the ITS Training Room on the 7th floor of the Sawyer Building from 2 - 4:00 pm.

Please contact webadmin@suffolk.edu to arange a time for Author/Editor Training.

Training Option 3: Editing Catalog Content

Web Services and the Office of the Registrar offer 3 choices for users who will be editing and updating content in the Academic Catalogs.

Training Session

The full course covers every aspect of content creation and editing for the academic catalogs. If you’ve already taken Content Provider Training, you don’t need to take the full course. If you haven’t worked with RedDot before, attendance at the full 1½ hour training Session is required for access to the system.

Bring your content on a flash drive or disk if it’s ready. The course covers

• Editing existing content
• Using the Text Editor
• Submitting your content to workflow for review, approval and publishing

Open House Session

If you have taken Content Provider Training in the past, you may want to consider a quick brush-up at one of our open house sessions. Authorized Content Providers and editors may come to an Open House Session for a refresher, to get answers, or to update content in an assisted environment. Bring your content on a flash drive or disk.

Academic Catalog CMS User’s Guide

All content providers and editors should download the new Academic Catalog User’s Guide. It is available on CampusCruiser as a shared file in the Catalog Production Committee.  Note that correct text formatting is required so that output is consistent across the range of web, PDF, and print outputs.

Catalog training location, dates, and times

All sessions will be held in the ITS Training Room on the 7th floor of the Sawyer Building.

Training Calendar   

Date	Time	Session
November 17	1:00 to 2:30pm	RedDot CMS Catalog Training
November 19	1:00 to 2:30pm	Catalog Open House
November 24	1:00 to 2:30pm	RedDot CMS Catalog Training
December 1	1:00 to 2:30pm	Catalog Open House

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Attendees to either Catalog Training or Open House sessions must register no later than 24 hours before the session.

For more information about Web training, contact Web Services at webadmin@suffolk.edu.