General Information About Modern Campus Training
What to Expect
Modern Campus training sessions introduce editors to the new CMS environment and provide hands-on experience with creating and managing content. CMS Basics training typically last 2 hours, while Advanced Training typically lasts 3 hours, depending on class size and participation.
Self-study resources will also be available, including documentation, video tutorials, and “How To” guides tailored for UH users.
IMPORTANT: For the best editing experience in Modern Campus while working off campus, connect to the UH VPN using the full-vpn-uh.edu setting. Without this VPN connection, pages may not render or preview correctly in the CMS.See the UIT site's VPN information to see how to set things up for your operating system. If you have the Cisco AnyConnect already installed, no reinstallation is required - just change settings.
The training can cover the following topics:
- Content Management System (CMS) basics
- Editing content and creating pages
- UH Web Best Practices
- Web accessibility
- Login
- Permissions
- Navigating around
- Editing content
- Previewing and publishing pages and approvals
- Manage files
To ensure that topics get covered in a timely manner, any questions you may have that cannot be answered immediately can be jotted down and saved for the break during training, at end of the training session, or email webmktg@Central.UH.EDU.
Training Location
Until further notice, all Modern Campus training will be offered virtually via Microsoft Teams. The Basics CMS training will take place every first Thursday and the Advanced CMS training every first Friday of each month.
What We Need from You
When sending any email request or question please include full names, UH emails, and the departments or areas involved, as well as the specific website for which the individual may be training to edit, or to which the question applies.
New students or new hires who do not yet have a UH email address are allowed to use a personal email address for communications about the training. Be aware however, that before a CMS User can be activated in the system, the individual's Cougarnet account must be active. Any trainee, whether staff, student, or POI hire, must also have authorization from a UH/UHS office, website content owner, and/or website manager before being granted working access to an active UH/UHS website.
For training by telecommunication application specifically, we strongly recommend that a Cougarnet ID be active at least a few days before the training, so the trainee can be properly set up for access to the sandbox materials. Trainees without active CNIDs may still participate in and be considered to have completed the training, but should expect their hands-on experience to be more limited.
After training is completed we must receive an email from the trainee and his or her supervisor, including:
- An exact idea of which website, and/or site area the new user will be editing.
Ideally, send us a URL. If the site is to be developed, let us know what area of the university is sponsoring or hosting the new materials.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
You must be university staff, a work-study student with a UH/UHS-Component sponsor,
or have a POI in place, and your Cougarnet credentials must be active before you can
be activated as an active working Modern Campus CMS User.
Many colleges and departments also have an office and/or website point-person (e.g. the dean's communications office) to manage that area's website users. That office and/or person may also need to approve access for any website editor within their area.
Persons otherwise eligible for training who have not been sponsored towards specific website access may still attend the training (e.g. as professional development interest only) and they may be set up with temporary access to a Modern Campus CMS training area; however, they will not be set up for any specific live website as active working users in the CMS without further authorization.