Using Personal Pages

Personal Pages (PPs) replaces EISite2’s ‘Blogs’ feature and offers a means for a school’s staff, pupils, governors and parents as well as groups and classes to create their own pages.

• PPs can be public or private
  You can set up 'private' log ins for your pages and hide them from public view. This might be useful for staff,  classes or other groups where public viewing is not required or desirable.
• PPs can be moderated or non-moderated
  You control whether content is suitable for publication
• PPs can have just one content item (like a web page) or any number of content items (like a blog)

If you are logged in as an Owner, from your PP page you can:

• manage your account
• edit your content items
• hide content items
• change page titles
• select a skin

Unlike Blogs, PPs are now integrated into your EISite2 Web site. You will still be able to set up individual user logins and produce as many accounts and as much content as you like.

Already set up 'Blogs'?

If you have already set up some 'Blogs', your accounts, pages and content will still be available and there is nothing you need to do! It will come on line automatically.

If you find that your Personal Pages are not working, you may need us to set up or modify some of your site files. Simply email us and we will set you up. You do not need to enter any message, simply send the email as it is. If the email’s subject line is blank then enter the following: Set up Personal Pages for [Enter your schoolname here]

How to set up Personal Pages

• From the Main Menu click on General Settings. In General Settings, tick the box next to Personal Pages in the Enable my pages section.
• From the Main Menu, click on Personal Pages.

Your Personal Page Administrator contains 3 sections:

• Add a Personal Page Group (a class, club, form or other group)
• Manage and Set-up Personal Pages
• Manage Personal Page Content

Many of the commands or tools provided are the same as other Control Panel Sections.

Add or edit a Personal Page Group

• Type in a name for your Group
• Tick to moderate the group
• Tick to enable the group
• Click Add group
• To edit a group, select the group you wish to alter, make your changes and click Update group

You can:

• Disable a group with one click
  All members of the group and all their content will not be displayed
• Delete a group and all it’s members

Manage and Set-up Personal Pages

Fill in the fields as appropriate. Most are self-explanatory or guidance is provided contextually.

Screen name

• Enter a unique screen name for each user

Skill level

• Select a skill level appropriate to the user:
  Advanced provides a full set of content editing tool
  Novice provides a limited tool set.

Private Access

Entering a Username and Password in this section allows you to create ‘Private pages’ not available to public view. To view these areas, either a Private Access Username and Password or an Owners Screen Name and Password must be entered in the sign in panel.

Important: Ensure that the tick box for Show in Menu is cleared or un-ticked. If this box remains ticked, then your Private Access pages will be available to public view.

You can:

• Disable this account with one click
  Messages on the account will not be displayed
• Delete this account

Manage Personal Page Content

You can easily moderate and manage content created in Personal Page accounts.

• Content requiring moderation is highlighted in red in the drop down selector.
• Selecting an account displays a list of available content for that account

Managing content

• Click on a title to view and manage the content

You can:

• Approve the content for publication
  ticking No prevents the item from being published
• Change the heading
• Add a discrete message for the content owner only
  your message will only display when the owner signs in
• Hide the message from public view
  the owner can override this from their own Content Editing panel
• Delete content

When you have completed your changes:

• Click Update this page to store any changes
• Click Delete this page to completely delete the page from the database