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Class Agenda and Learning Objectives (TfLS)
PLOW Training for Library Staff
Class Agenda
1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Lecture with PowerPoint
3. Tour of the Demo Site
4. Log in as the author
5. Change the author password
6. Find a page
7. Content Types in Plone
8. Edit a page
9. Publish and Retract a page
10. Organization of the Web site
11. New content
12. Structural changes
13. Images
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the class participants will be able to:
- List some qualities of good Web writing
- Define a Content Management System
- List some metadata elements
- List the major sections of the PLOW model Web site
- State the purpose of the major sections of the PLOW model Web site
- State the differences of the PLOW Web site between an anonymous user and a logged-in user
- Describe what workflow is in Plone
- Find a specific page in the library’s Web site
- Edit a page:
- List, define and state the qualities of page metadata on the “Edit” tab including shortname, title, description, and body.
- Add new body text by:
- Writing from scratch
- Copying from an existing document, de-formatting, pasting
- Publish an edited page
- Describe Content types of Plone
- Folder
- Event
- FAQ
- File
- Folder
- Form Mailer
- Home Page
- Image
- Link
- News Item
- Page
- Add new content the PLOW Web site
- Make structural changes to the PLOW Web site
- Explain the differences between the different views of a folder
- Change the view of folders using the display options
- Describe the differences between an internal link and an external link
- Add an internal link to a page
- Add an external link to a page
- Add images to a folder and change display to thumbnail
- Use the built-in image handling in Plone to add images the PLOW Web site
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