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Manila Manager Training Agenda

Each district will have a Manila Manager that will be responsible for creating and maintaining the district Manila pages. The Manila Manager will be responsible for choosing the theme and changing the appearance, modifying permissions and membership for the site, and changing general settings for each site they create.

Manila Background

http://manila.userland.com/
Manila is a content/project management system that uses an editorial process journalists are familiar with. Many editors may edit and/or post stories to one site. The page editor worries only about the content and not the design or uploading pages or any of the other problems plaguing other web systems.

Each district will have one Manila Manager that will create sites. Each site may have the following editors. Note: Each site will have a different password for each editor.

Managing Editor: can configure the site, edit the template and navigation, write and edit stories and pictures, and take part in the discussion group.

Content Editor: can write and edit stories and pictures and take part in the discussion group. Unlike contributing editors, they can edit content written by other people. They cannot delete stories or pictures.  They also cannot upload gems or change the theme.

Contributing Editor: can write and edit stories and pictures and take part in the discussion group. These editors cannot create links from pages other than their own. The cannot delete pictures, or stories, or add gems either.

Planning District/School Web Site Map

When creating sites for your district, you may want to keep a few ideas in mind. Some districts may want an individual site for each level of education. Some may want sites for team teachers, or school sponsored organizations. Some may want a site for each and every teacher and administrator.

Each site will have its own editors; each with their own password. For example, you may wish to have a site for the third grade teachers. They will each log in using their own email address and password. (You will want to make sure you keep track of these!!)

Creating a new site

As a Manila Manager, you have a special password to create sites, which could be different from other sites you may manage.
To create a new site, enter the following URL:
http://teachers.esu10.org/manilaSupport/createASite
Click "Login". You will be asked for your email address and password that was emailed to you previously. If you forgot the password, just enter your email address and click "Login". It will be mailed to your account.

Fill out form:

URL: append the email login of the teacher (eg: jdoe if the user is jdoe@esu10.og)
Name: Full name of teacher (eg: Jane Doe)
Email: Full ESU 10 email address of teacher (eg: jdoe@esu10.org)
Password: New password for site (eg: $$tr45kl)
Login in to the new site with the teacher login

Logging in

To log in, locate the 'Login' or 'Sign-in' link on the page. This may be in different locations depending on the theme that is chosen for the site. Enter your email address and password and click the submit button to login to the site. You should notice an 'Editors Only:' menu to indicate that you have logged in to the site.

If there is no login link or it doesn't seem to work properly, you may use the following URL. Remember to substitute 'jdoe' with your site name.
http://teachers.esu10.k12.ne.us/jdoe/member/login

Change Settings

There are a couple of things you will want to modify for any new site before you allow them to log in and use the site.  Under the Prefs Editorial menu, we will change the following:
Appearance
  1. Change Site Name and Tag line
  2. Turn Calendar off
Editorial
  1. Turn off email notification
  2. Turn Caching of home page on
Syndication
  1. Turn off Syndication
Membership
  1. Turn off Discussion groups
  2. Set cookies to expire
Themes
  1. Change the theme if needed
Administrative Access
You will also want to add yourself as a managing editor so that if there are problems, you will be able to log in and troubleshoot the issue. (Note: You will not need to do this to your site.)
  1. Click Admin
  2. Scroll down to 'Membership'
  3. Member name: Enter your name.
  4. Member email address: Enter your email address.
  5. Member password: Enter a new password for yourself.
  6. Member privileges: Select Managing Editor from the list.
  7. Click on Prefs and then Editorial to verify your membership. Your email address will be listed in the Managing Editor section.

Changing Passwords

Any member of the site may change their password by using the following URL. Note: you will need to change 'jdoe' to your site name.
http://teachers.esu10.k12.ne.us/jdoe/member/changePassword
If you (the Manila Manager) wish to change the password to create accounts, use the following URL.

http://teachers.esu10.org/manilaSupport/member/changePassword

Signing out

Click the 'Sign Out' link from the membership box or the 'Logoff' link from the Editors only menu when you are finished. Click on the 'Sign Out' button to confirm.

Manila Advanced

Customizing a site

Viewing site stats
http://teachers.esu10.k12.ne.us/jdoe/stats/

Changing appearance

Membership

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