Manuals, Guides & Tutorials

CommonSpot Manual (Survey - Help Us Improve These Manuals):

• The CommonSpot Manual instructs you on how to create pages, what subsites are, how to add news and many other aspects of the university's content editing system. Note: This manual is in draft format and will be updated on a regular basis. Hate flipping through pages, using "ctrl-f" to find topics in the pdf manual, or just want a web-based table of contents? View web page table of contents.
  
• Profiles - Learn how to create faculty/staff profiles (also included in the CommonSpot manual)
  
• Videos, Forms and Navigation: Instructions on how to use video, forms and navigation (also included in the CommonSpot manual)
  
• Regional Campus Instructions: Includes information particular to the regional campuses
• Creating Anchors (Jump Links): Learn how to create links that jump to a specific area on your web page.
• Tables: Learn how to use and format tables of information in CommonSpot
  
• Upload a PDF in Profiles: Learn how to include a PDF in your faculty/staff profile
• Install Firefox 3.6:  Instructions on installing Firefox 3.6 for use with CommonSpot
  

Image Resizing and Manipulation (Survey - Help Us Improve This Guide):

• Learn how to crop and edit images for use in CommonSpot
  

UCM Web Standards Guides

• Best Practices for "Information For" Portal Pages
• Required elements from academic web sites
  

CommonSpot Video Tutorials (Survey - Help Us Improve These Videos):

Beginner Topics:

• Locating a Page
• Creating a Page
• Adding Content to Page
• Layouts and Rotators
• Publishing a Page
• Tables and Anchors

Intermediate Topics:

• Action Items
• Highlights
• News
• Profiles
• Setting Up Your Navigation
• Subsites