BVSD.org Instructions

 

General Instructions

1. Copy/paste.  When copying content from another source (your previous website, a document, etc.), you must clear formatting (highlight text and select Clear Format) and convert to XHTML (click the HTML drop-down and select Convert to XHTML .
2. Mark-Up Styles.  To change the font size or style, highlight the text and select a style by clicking the drop-down under Mark-Up Styles.
3. Document libraries.  
1. Upload (on Ribbon) or Drag & Drop multiple images/documents 
   
2. MS Office documents (Word, Excel).  If you are manually adding a MS Office document link on a page and want it to open in the browser (not download), follow these steps:
1. Navigate to the document library
2. Right click on the document>Copy link location
   
3. Navigate to the page where you want to add the document link>Type the document name>On the Ribbon>Insert Link>From Address>Paste Link
   
4. Note:  When a document library is added to a page, steps 1-3 are not necessary.  Documents will open in the web browser.
   
4. Publish/Check-in multiple photos/documents at one time in the Content and Structure view (Gear>Site Settings>Site Administration>Content and Structure)​
5. Embed html code (Google calendar, You Tube or Vimeo video, Twitter or Facebook feeds, etc.)
1. Click Add a webpart>Media and Content>Script Editor>Add​
2. Copy the Embed (html) code from the application
3. Click Edit Snippet in the webpart>Paste the html code
4. Change width to "100%"
5. Click Insert
6. Publish the page
   
6. Obtain Embed code for You Tube vide0
1. Navigate to the video
2. Click Share>Embed>Copy html code
7. Obtain Embed code for Google Form
1. Navigate to the form
2. Click SEND>Embed icon>change width to 100%>Copy