uLearn Breakout 7: Communicating with Google Sites - Tim Harper (Mt Aspiring & Core Advisory/connected learning)

Tim's Presentation

When setting up a site, decide what your permissions are (fully public, some public with some private and totally private).

1. Creating a site

a. Choose a template (go for blank, easier to work with)
b. Name your site
c. Then click 'create'

2. Sharing the website

Defines who can see it, and who can edit.
Sharing it (can make a google group and then share it with them).
If you want it part public, make the whole thing public, then later make some pages private.

You can make  more people authors.

If it is a site for a school/dept etc, then set up a master Gmail user and make them the owner. This is important if people are leaving etc.

3. Finding your website 

Make it as easy as possible for people to find, so see if you can link it to your school domain name (eg ____.school.nz).

Go into settings >manage site > map site THIS MUST BE DONE BY SCHOOL GOOGLE ADMINISTRATOR (REGISTRAR)

4. Edit site layout (in the main menu - cog)

(edit site header, sidebar item, edit system footer)

Why?
So people can use it easily
Make pages consistent

4. Editing

The page editor

Gadgets make it fun
(you can even write your own)
Slideshow maker (using google slides) is cool - automatically comes into your site with the perfect fit etc.

You can add anything stored on Google


Setting a site-specific calendar for that site (in Calendar, create new site at 'my Calendar'). Make sharing setting "Share all information and outsiders can change calendars (just administrators can change, but they may be outside your site).