Falcon: An Introduction BeginnersPrerequisites
This course will cover the admin and user interface for the Falcon Content Management Service.
Please note: The course is regularly oversubscribed, if this should be the case participants will be paired up and informed on the day.
- All current University members (departments and colleges) interested in running a Falcon site
- Further details regarding eligibility criteria are available
Prospective participants should be either a user or administrator involved in a current or future Falcon site, or have a strong interest in Falcon. It would be useful to have some expereince of HTML
Number of sessions: 2
# | Date | Time | Venue | Trainer | |
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1 | Thu 21 May 2015 09:30 - 13:00 | 09:30 - 13:00 | Phoenix Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site | map | H.V. Sargan |
2 | Fri 22 May 2015 09:30 - 13:00 | 09:30 - 13:00 | Phoenix Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site | map | H.V. Sargan |
- A look at the default site
- Learning to add simple content
- Configuring your site’s look and feel
- Adding news, events and jobs
- Your home page and working with portlets
- Adding more complex content to pages
- Adding other content to your site – a research directory, discussion forums and forms
- Adding users and groups, and restricting access to content
- What metadata is and how to add it
- Collections – what they are and how you can use them
- Looking at the ‘back end’ of Falcon
- Other admin functions
Presentations, demonstrations and practicals
Falcon
Two sessions of half a day
Booking / availability