OU Campus Tutorial
OU Campus is the Content Management System (CMS) that CSU utilizes for providing users with the ability to update their website. You can log in and edit from your computer's web browser without installing any additional software. Please look over this tutorial for help while using the system.
Important Notes
Log In
Navigation
Once logged in to the system, do the following to access pages:
You will see the following icons near the top of the screen.
When the icons are in the middle, you are viewing the page list on the left side and the currently selected page's preview on the right side. Press the left arrow to collapse the page to only show the currently selected page's preview. Press the right arrow to collapse the page to only show the page list.
Checking In/Out a Page for Editing
The page you want to edit must be checked out before you can edit it. The process is that you will check out a page in order to edit it and check in the page when finished. Note: Another way to check out the page is to click Edit, because clicking Edit automatically checks out the page.
While viewing the list of pages in the Content → Pages tab, you can check out the page by either clicking on the lightbulb icon or clicking on the file name.
Checked In
Checked Out
You will have the below option to check out the page if you have the page preview navigation screen open. Press Check Out or Edit.
Editing a Page
If you clicked on the file name from the OU Campus File Browser, you should then see the below option. Press the Edit button. You will also see this if you clicked edit from the toolbar in the previous picture.
You will now be directed to the Editor where you can make changes to the page.
Note: The Editor currently does not support Internet Explorer version 11. Please use Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Safari if you have this version of Internet Explorer installed.
Inserting an Image
Note: Images must be uploaded by Web Support, so please email them to us at websupport@csu.edu. Once uploaded, the images will be available for you to add to your pages.
Inserting a Link to a Page or Document
Note: Documents must be uploaded by Web Support, so please email them to us at websupport@csu.edu. Once uploaded, the documents will be available for you to add to your pages.
The Target box lets you decide how the link will be opened. You should select Open in This Window/Frame when you are linking to another page inside the CSU website. You should select the option Open in New Window (_blank) when you are linking to a webpage that is outside the CSU website or if you are linking to a PDF document. Text that you enter into the Title box will appear when you hover the mouse over the link.
Creating an Anchor Link in a Page
Applying Available Styles to Text
The font styles that are available to you can be found in the Styles drop down box, shown in the below picture. The options are Heading, Subheading, Content, and Content Bold.
To apply a style, you can select the text before selecting the style. If you do not have any text selected before you select a style, you will start using the selected style from that point on.
Important Notes on Styles
Publishing/Approving Your Page
There is a two step process for publishing a page. The page editor (also known as a Contributor), will enter any new content on the page or create a new page. When the updates have been finished, the Contributor will send a message to the Publisher asking for the page to be approved and published. The Publisher will then look over the changes to the page and will decide whether or not to publish the page. If the Publisher declines to publish the page, they will be prompted to send the Contributor a message stating why the page can not be published.
Editor
Approver
Creating a New Page
The Toolbar
When you edit a page, you will see this toolbar.
Save
The Save icon allows the user to save the changes that have been made to the page.
Save As
The Save As icon allows the user to save the page with a new name, essentially creating
a copy of the page. Note: The page must be saved with the extension .pcf.
Revert Content to Last Saved
This option will undo all changes and revert the content in the editable region to
its original state.
Restore Auto-Saved Content
This option will restore the content to its last auto-saved point. You can use this
option if you appear to have lost content from the browser closing or quitting unexpectedly.
Cut/Copy/Paste
The Cut/Copy/Paste buttons will only work in Internet Explorer. On other web browsers,
you will have to use keyboard shortcuts(CTRL+X, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V for Windows and CMD+X,
CMD+C, CMD+V for Mac)
There are two possible paste options. Standard "Paste" will paste all basic formatting including styles, colors, and links. "Paste as Plain Text" pastes in only plain text, removing all other formatting.
Find and Find/Replace
Allow you to search the text on the current page and replace that text with new text.
Undo and Redo
Undo the last change in this session or Redo the changes that were just undone.
Toggle Spell Checker
Lets you check the spelling on the page.
Remove Formatting
Removes all formatting for the selected text. If you are adding a style to text and
it does not appear as you expect, it is best to remove the formatting and then try
to reapply the style.
Italic
Apply Italics to the selected text.
Bulleted and Numbered Lists
Start a bulleted or numbered list. You can also select text first for the text to
become a list.
Indent
Allows indentation of text, either to the right or left.
Alignment
Allows you to align text. Your options are Left, Center, Right, and Full.
Insert/Edit Link
Select the text that you want to become a link and then press this button.
Create or Modify Mailto Link
Select the text that you want to become a Mailto Link and then press this button.
Unlink
If you have text selected that is a link, this button will remove the link.
Insert/Edit Anchor
Anchors let you navigate to other sections of the page through links. Place the cursor
at the area you want to become an anchor. Then, you can press this button and give
the anchor a name. Once there is an anchor on the page, you can create a link through
the Insert/Edit Link button and select the anchor as the destination.
Help
This option will give you further explanation on the Toolbar buttons.
Style Selection Box
You will use this selection box to apply a style to selected text or start using
a style at the location of the cursor. Only one style at a time should have an arrow
next to it in the list. Remove the extra style selection by selecting the style from
the dropdown list that you want to remove.
Insert/Edit Image
Lets you insert or edit an image.
Insert Line Break
Press this button when you want the text moved to the next line.
Insert Special Character
Brings up a box with many characters that you can choose from to insert on the page.
Show/Hide Guidelines/Invisible Elements
Toggles your view of the outlines of tables and anchor locations on the page. These
are only seen in the editor and not on the published page.
Insert/Edit Table and Table Options
Place your cursor at the desired location and then click on this button to create
a table. There are also buttons for Table Row Properties, Table Cell Properties, Insert
Row Before, Insert Row After, Delete Row, Insert Column Before, Insert Column After,
Remove Column, Split Merged Table Cells, and Merge Table Cells. You will use these
buttons for editing tables.