How to --

Log in to edit a page

• Log in from the FORUM | Teacher Login menu option using your email and password.
• Select the option to “Edit your school’s page.”
• Use CTRL-@ (Control-Shift 2 or, on Apple machines, -Shift 2) to launch the page editor.
• Log in using your same email and password.
• Locate and click on the small pencil icon found near the HOME menu option.
• When the editor opens, click where you wish to edit the page.

Suggested page template

• The graphic below indicates the areas available for editing and their suggested uses.

Edit a page

• Log in as you normally would to edit a page’s contents. (See “Log in to edit a page.”)
• You can add, delete, highlight text as you normally would by using the editor’s icons to assist you.
• Be sure to save the page using the “Close” option . When you do so, you will be prompted to okay your changes and then close the window that announces that the save was successful, or not.

Upload, move, and resize a photo

• Log in as you normally would to edit a page’s contents. (See “Log in to edit a page.”)
• Select a location for the picture on the page.
• UPLOAD
• Click on the Add/Edit Image icon .
• Use the “Browse” button to locate the picture you wish to upload to the page.
• You can, at this time, include a border and define the white space surrounding the picture.
• Click OK to upload and place the photo on the page.
• MOVE
• Point at a picture and a dashed line will outline the picture.
• Drag and drop it at a new location.
• RESIZE
• Click on a picture and small resizing boxes will appear on the picture.
• Point at and drag the resizing boxes. Dragging a corner will resize the picture proportionally.
• Be sure to save the page using the “Close” option . If you have other editing tasks to complete, you can wait to close the editor.

Upload a document and create a link on a webpage

• Log in as you normally would to edit a page’s contents. (See “Log in to edit a page.”)
• When the editor opens, click where you wish to add the document.
• From the editor’s menu, click on the “File Manager” icon  in the second row.
• Click on the upload icon  and locate the document you wish to upload in the usual way.
• Select the document you've just uploaded from the available documents.
• Click on the “Link” button on the bottom of this File Manager window and the editor will add a link to the document on your page.

Pasting text from Word, etc.

• Highlight and copy the text you wish to paste to your page.
• Use the keyboard command Ctrl-V to paste the text; Apple users use -V.
  NOTE: This current limitation is scheduled to be fixed in the next version of the page editor.

Pasting text and a picture from a Word document

• You cannot copy and paste both text and a picture in the one easy process; instead, you must do each separately. Further, you must either locate the existing JPEG file of the photo OR create a JPEG file from the picture as it exists in the Word document.
• Copy and paste the text first as described above using the keyboard command Ctrl-V to paste the text; Apple users use -V.
• Click on the location within the site’s page where you want to add the picture
• Then, do one of the following to add the picture to the page:
  • If you have the original picture:
    
    • Follow the directions above for uploading a picture.
  • If you do NOT have the original picture:
    • Right click on the picture.
    • Select “Copy” from the popup menu.
    • Open a graphics program such as Paint.
    • Paste the picture into a new file in Paint.
    • Save this picture as a JPEG (*.jpg).
    • Using this newly created picture, upload it using the directions for uploading a picture (See above).