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When a teacher leaves your school, the webpage can be moved to a holding page until we know they are not going to need it moved to a new site within the county.  If you don't have a holding page, it is highly recommended you create one so that we have a place to hold these websites until we can determine which school to move them to.  You can easily make a holding page following these directions:
  1. Open your site in EDIT mode
  2. Click on New Page and select "Classrooms" page type. Name the page - "Holding" or "On Hold."  Make sure the page is not visible in navigation by going to Details on the Page Settings and selecting "Hide Link in Navigation"
  3. Go to the real classroom page and at select the grade level or subject of the teacher you are moving.  In Edit mode, you will see a pencil for that teacher when you hover over their name: click MOVE SITE.  This will allow you to move them from your real Classroom Page to your Holding Page.  
  4. If you know where the person is going, please submit the request to have their page moved from your school to their new location.  If you do not know, just leave the teacher site at the holding page, and we will try to find them when the other school requests the move.  Here is the link to make the request.
Note: While you might be able to move the page to another school, there are a few other adjustments we make when a page is moved so it is best to let one of the county people move the page and adjust the account at the same time.

Please do not delete teachers until you are completely certain that they will not be coming back to our district.  

Also, please do not rename a leaving teacher pages to the new teachers name.  There are often people leaving for another state or county and their replacement might ask for the information on their website to remain and just adjust the name, we do not recommend doing this there are often things referencing the teacher that will likely be missed in editing.  However, we can copy a page from the old site to a new site set up for the replacement teacher as you need it.  Please just let us know if this is the case.

New Teachers will get training on SchoolCenter at BTI in mid-August so their account and pages will be made soon and left blank until they are trained.  We will host a webmaster refresher on August 27 at 3:30 for those interested, this is listed in MyLearningPlan for you to sign up.  Please don't hesitate to ask questions.

If you are not the webmaster for your school please pass this information along to them for us :)
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Webmasters - Quick reminders for 2013-14

When a teacher leaves your school, the webpage can be moved to a holding page until we know they are not going to need it moved to a new site within the county.  If you don't have a holding page, it is highly recommended you create one so that we have a place to hold these websites until we can determine which school to move them to.  You can easily make a holding page following these directions:
  1. Open your site in EDIT mode
  2. Click on New Page and select "Classrooms" page type. Name the page - "Holding" or "On Hold."  Make sure the page is not visible in navigation by going to Details on the Page Settings and selecting "Hide Link in Navigation"
  3. Go to the real classroom page and at select the grade level or subject of the teacher you are moving.  In Edit mode, you will see a pencil for that teacher when you hover over their name: click MOVE SITE.  This will allow you to move them from your real Classroom Page to your Holding Page.  
  4. If you know where the person is going, please submit the request to have their page moved from your school to their new location.  If you do not know, just leave the teacher site at the holding page, and we will try to find them when the other school requests the move.  Here is the link to make the request.
Note: While you might be able to move the page to another school, there are a few other adjustments we make when a page is moved so it is best to let one of the county people move the page and adjust the account at the same time.

Please do not delete teachers until you are completely certain that they will not be coming back to our district.  

Also, please do not rename a leaving teacher pages to the new teachers name.  There are often people leaving for another state or county and their replacement might ask for the information on their website to remain and just adjust the name, we do not recommend doing this there are often things referencing the teacher that will likely be missed in editing.  However, we can copy a page from the old site to a new site set up for the replacement teacher as you need it.  Please just let us know if this is the case.

New Teachers will get training on SchoolCenter at BTI in mid-August so their account and pages will be made soon and left blank until they are trained.  We will host a webmaster refresher on August 27 at 3:30 for those interested, this is listed in MyLearningPlan for you to sign up.  Please don't hesitate to ask questions.

If you are not the webmaster for your school please pass this information along to them for us :)
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