Training for GECD Drupal Cloud site

March 13, 2015

W92-Training room  2nd floor

Audience:  GECD staff responsible for site content

Outline

9:00  Continental Breakfast / student setup

9:30  Intro / Welcome        ( Todd )

9:45  Drupal / Drupal Cloud Overview ( JAD )

• What is Drupal
• What is Drupal Cloud
• Drupal components
  • content types
  • menus / blocks / views
  • Roles / permissions
• Where to get help

10:00 GECD site Overview (Todd/Scott/McPhee/JAD)

• Describe Channel layout by content type
• Workflow process for adding, updating , publishing content
• Basic Channel pages
  
  • About-pages
  • Career-pages
  • Jobs-pages
  • Grad-pages
  • Abroad-pages
  • Employer-pages
• Additional Content types
  • Landing pages
  • Features
  • Sponsers
  • Blogs
• Custom design features (McPhee)  
• Content migration responsibilities (Todd)

10:30 Basic Content Editor Tasks (McPhee)

• How to login
• Using the CKEDITOR
  • formatting 
  • inserting images / media /files
  • cut and paste warnings
  • use relative links for links within site

11:00 Basic Exercises for Content Contributors (Todd/McPhee)

• Hands on exercises
• Questions

12:00  Lunch

12:30 Migration activities 

2:00    End