FYS System Status

All screencast tutorials have been uploaded to Vimeo and embedded into the FYS Help site.  Their quality is the best they can be for non-HD videos on Vimeo.  We may investigate into purchasing an upgraded account at Vimeo to improve video quality.

Due to a bug in our administrative plugin “Plugin Commander” users were seeing an option to control plugins within the posts menu in their dashboard menu. (Fixed with this: http://tinyurl.com/l49jp7)

All FYS sections have been given one of the following as their theme: Cutline, Flex, K2, Light, Simpla, WP MU Default. You can view these theme options under “Appearance” in your administrative toolbar.

Additionally, all sections have had the following added as widgets: Search (allows the reader to search the site), Recent Posts (shows the last 5 posts), Pages (lists all pages by page title ), and Links (will show all links entered into the link manager in the administrative toolbar).

*ADDITION*

Also, now section blogs have one “dummy” post and page published.  Feel free to delete these as you begin setting up your sites.  Sections have 4 default links to important FYS sites (Help, Status, FYS homepage, and a link to login) categorized under “FYS Sites.”  The link category “Student Blogs” has also been created for when FYS teachers add student blog links to their link manager.

~Kyle Jones~

All pod librarian liaisons have been added as editors to their appropriate FYS sections.

The landing site, http://fys.elmhurst.edu, is in the process of getting some upgrades:

1. All section blog links have been added to the sidebar
2. Help and System Status site links have been added to the sidebar
3. A recently updated page has been added which displays the last 5 updated blogs, limited amounts of the recently added content,  and links to the sites
4. Instead of heading to http://fys.elmhurst.edu/wp-login.php to login, you can do it stratight from a page at this site

We’ll be adding more content to the homepage and the getting help page soon.

~Kyle Jones~

The Help site will be extensively screencasts, or video tutorials, of using the Wordpress FYS bloggins system.  Screencasts are in the process of being created and added to the help site currently.  To help load time of videos, Vimeo – the popular video sharing site – will host the videos orginally and then will be embedded into the Help site.

Hello!

We’re in the process of adding all of the 32 section blogs to the FYS blog system.  You’ll be notified shortly when your blog is up and ready for customization.

Don’t forget that the library is offering two sessions for training on using the blogging system on the following dates and times in the “Fishbowl” classroom on the main floor of the library:

• Monday, August 10th at 1 p.m.
• Tuesday, August 11th at 10 a.m.

Thanks,

Kyle Jones

We’ve started building a Help site with screencasts (video tutorials) on using the FYS site. It’s in the early stages but expect a comprehensive resource by mid-summer: http://help.fys.elmhurst.edu/

A new plugin called “MU-Unfiltered” has been installed sitewide.  This enables the use of <embed> and <iframe> tags used on media like YouTube embeds.  No administration is needed to turn the plugin on or off sitewide; it is automatically on.

Due to spam trackbacks being seen on blog2.elmhurst.edu, trackbacks have been disabled until further notice.