SchoolCenterBasics

What is SchoolCenter?

Go to www.nbisd-tx.net Click on “Schools” “Your Campus”

“Classrooms” Look at your colleague’s sites.

SchoolCenter houses the official public Web sites of all New Braunfels teachers.

This is where anyone searching for you as an NBISD teacher will go to find you.

Find Content

View your colleague’s sites critically. You have 5 minutes to make notes.

What do you like? What don’t you like? What would you like to include on your

site?

Click on the link to your site.

Log In

Go to http://www.nbisd-tx.net/admin User ID: same as e-mail Password: get from technology liaison. If

you are in a training, check your packet or ask the facilitator.

Customize Your Account

Click on “Edit My Account Settings” Enter your school e-mail if you know it Create a new password that you will

remember Click “Done”

Save this as a contact in your phone: Name: SchoolCenter URL: http://www.nbisd-tx.net/admin Notes: username and new password

Customize Your Site

There is a lot you can do on SchoolCenter, but we will focus on these five page-types today: Home Contact Document Manager Homework Drop Box Teacher Biography

Title a note card with each page-type.

Pick ContentRefer to your notes from earlier. Using your note cards, determine where your content will go on your site.

Update Content

Click on your name under “Site Access”

Click on “Edit” to initialize edit mode You will know you are in edit mode when

you see the expanded menu

Make a Personalized Link This will allow others to access your site by

typing in nbisd-tx.net/yourlastname You should be on your home page in edit

mode. Click on “Page Settings.” Type *your last name in the “Subdirectory”

box. Click “Done.”

*If you have a common last name, put your first initial in front of it. Do not space in between.

Personalize Your Home Page

YOU SHOULD BE IN EDIT MODE

Change text: Click on the text you

want to change. The page will turn

bluish. Make your changes. Click “Save.”

Remove Images: Scroll over the image’s

content box. Click on the little image

icon that pops up. Click on “Delete Image”

then “OK.”

Personalize Your Contact Page

Click on “Page Settings.”

Make your form look like this

Click “Done.”

If you do not enter your e-mail address, your contact page will not work.

Keep Personalizing

Continue to update content on your site. When you are satisfied, you may want to

adjust the theme. Click on “Design” “Themes” Browse the themes. There are many categories. Click on the one you want. Click on “Apply to Multiple Pages.” Check the boxes next to each page at right. Click on “Apply” “OK” at the top. To return to your site, enter your personalized

link in the address bar.

View, Share, Discuss

Go to the TechLessons discussion board: nbisd-tx.net/TLDb

Save this address as a contact in your phone, because it will help you throughout the year. This PowerPoint is already there.