Northern Arizona University

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Northern Arizona University Content Management
System Software by Datatel TRAINING SESSION
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• History of the project
• To maximize our website as an information
  resource to our many constituents.
• Bring continuity to our web presence.
• Involves campus-wide collaboration Enrollment
  Services, Distance Learning, ITS, Marketing,
  Public Affairs and Academic Units

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Software Suite provided by Datatel Inc.
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• How personalization works
• Prospective students identify their academic and
  extracurricular interests through the new
  Undergraduate website
• 2. University staff tags Spotlights, Banner Ads
  and News stories to interests
• Active Admissions software displays content most
  relevant to them before displaying general
  content.

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Technical Information Active Admissions is a
.ASP application Servers Linden - web server
(home.nau.edu) Hickory - SQL server System
Administrators Robert Lightners group Web
content/CMS support University
Marketing/Vendor
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Roles Permissions Active Admissions roles and
corresponding Active Directory domain groups are
setup by Robert Lightners group Membership of
AD domain groups managed by Jeff Dillon
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Roles Permissions - cont. Active Admissions
Roles Webmaster Role All functions and pages.
Jeff Dillon Marketing Linda Esposito
Admissions Publisher Role Can publish web pages
to directories specified by Webmaster Page
Creator Role Can create new pages using templates
and layouts specified by Webmaster Content
Editor Can edit existing pages in directories
specified by Webmaster Scriptwriter Can edit
and create pages with ASP code.
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Components of Active Admissions All modules
below can be assigned to any user on
campus Banner Ads - Personalized
content Spotlights Personalized
content Newswire Personalized content FAQ
Central DB of searchable campus-wide
FAQs Surveys Display on personalized
Undergraduate home page Content Management
System Publishers Page creators Content
editors
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Banner Ad Functionality Administrators
Tracie Hansen Public Affairs Jeff Dillon
Marketing Linda Esposito Admissions William
Culpepper Marketing Banner Ads 1. Can have a
start date and end date 2. Can have a URL
attached 3. Can display to the user based on
page or interest Banner Ad Demo
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Spotlight Functionality Administrators
Linda Esposito Admissions Spotlights 1.
Are either Faculty, Student, or Alumni 2. Are
tied to users interests 3. Are displayed on
College and Ugrad home pages
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News Functionality Administrators Tracie
Hansen Public Affairs News 1. Can be tied to
user interests 2. Are displayed on NAU Home and
Undergraduate home pages
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• Content Management System
• Uses templates, layouts and categories to control
  page design
• 2. Is CSS based. Master CSS is here
  http//home.nau.edu/includes/SiteStyleClient.css
• 3. Style Guide is available at
  www.nau.edu/marketing

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CMS Templates and Layouts

• Templates
• a. Control - Location, Header image, Page Title
  Layouts and Categories
• b. Usually equate to a department or unit
• 2. Layouts - Control content organization

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• Content Management System
• Hands-on
• Create desktop folder named CMS
• Go to http//www4.nau.edu/marketing/training
• Download images/text to desktop folder

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Content Management System Hands-on Console
http//home.nau.edu/activecampus/admin Staff/Facu
lty User nau\userID Students User
nau-students\userID
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• Content Management System
• Create a new page
• Publish page
• Edit new page (change image to banner)
• Create new page (main 3-col 395)

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• Ideal candidates for the CMS
• Departments with little technical staff
• Pages that do not contain database driven content
• Departments that have many content managers/web
  developers

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• Web Addresses
• After your page is built in the CMS, it will have
  an address such as home.nau.edu/xxxx.
• Submit a request to jeff.dillon_at_nau.edu to point
  www.nau.edu/youroldURL ---gt home.nau.edu/xxx
• Virtual servers (www.xxx.nau.edu) are a different
  request and must be handled by different the
  server administrator.

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• Frequently asked Questions
• Do I have to use the CMS?
• No. It is an offering that is supported by
  Marketing
• 2. How do I design my web pages to look like
  the new NAU pages?
• A. Visit nau.edu/marketing for information and
  templates.

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• Resources Available
• Style sheets, templates, spotlight surveys
• www.nau.edu/marketing

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• Questions?