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Every faculty, adjunct, and staff member in the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) has a user account on our web infrastructure. These user accounts are used to generate dynamic directory pages, display individual user profiles (biography pages), and allow each user to edit their personal information. When new people come to the CLA they receive […]
Over, roughly, the past three or four years the idea of all websites being served via HTTPS (HTTP TLS) has been a hot topic in the web administration and development worlds. In the past year the push has become even more forceful with Google making changes to it’s Chrome browser and changing it’s search ranking […]
NewsHome » News Implementing the CLA VBL colors consistently across all websites can, at times, be a challenge. One thing we’ve done is to create a Colors documentation page that lists each of the colors in the CLA VBL and provides the color values for each. However, referencing a documentation page each time you need […]
In an effort to improve our communication and collaboration with Departments, Centers, and specifically Site Managers we’re now using two new tools. The first is teamwork.com, which is a project management tool, that we’re using internally to keep track of projects, task delegation, deadlines, and milestones, among other things. As we start new projects we’re inviting […]
NewsHome » News As of August 1, 2015 the Lamar server was retired from service by ACNS, including email, file storage, and websites. We’ve received questions from several concerned faculty within the College of Liberal Arts wondering where they can host their content now that Lamar is offline. The College of Liberal Arts is unable […]
As many of you already know we’re in the (long) process of moving all CLA websites on to our WordPress Multisite system. Thankfully we’re nearly finished with moving departmental websites and will then move on to program and center websites. One major benefit to this is that people profiles are all saved in a common […]
There are times when it’s necessary to include a link to a faculty or staff profile page from within another page’s content. Doing so helps visitors to be able to quickly and easily see more information about a given person within the department. However, in the past when you needed to link to a faculty […]
We’ve recently made some behind the scenes changes to the way a user search is handled within our WordPress Multisite system. If you’re a Site Manager for a CLA website on Multisite you can now search users by any of the following fields. First name Last name Username Email address (any portion of the email […]
Thanks to the over 80 instructors who attended the Canvas workshops, Getting Started and Building Courses and Engagement, sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts at the end of the Spring 2015 term. Many of you had several good questions that I could not answer during the workshop, but I promised you answers. Today, I […]
In June and July ACNS is offering a set of three workshops each month: 1) Canvas Overview, 2) Build a Canvas Course, and 3) Assignments and Grade Book. Canvas Overview, presented by Kevin Nolan, is a 2-hour hands-on workshop that will help instructors get oriented to Canvas. Kevin will discuss the migration from RamCT to […]
