Screencasts

Screencast: Adding Content to your OpenScholar Site

This screencast will show you how you can add new content to your site, edit text in the textbox editor (or use HTML), change the date, author, publishing status, or add a menu item for the new content.


Screencast: Editing Content on Your OpenScholar Site

This screencast will help you get started with editing content on your OpenScholar site.
 

Screencast: Add Apps to Your OpenScholar Site

This screencast will show you how to add apps (features) to your OpenScholar site. You can make them public or private.

 

Screencast: Changing Your Page Layout

This screencast will show you how to edit the site layout of your OpenScholar site. It will show you how to move, edit, and create new widgets for your layout.

 

Screencast: How to Change Your Theme in OpenScholar

This screencast will show you how to change the design and theme of your OpenScholar site and introduce flavors and responsive themes (themes that work on a tablet or mobile device). Remember, you can not edit CSS inside your OpenScholar site.

 

Screencast: Finding Your Content in an Openscholar Site

This screencast will show you how to find, edit, and delete content (such as pages, bio, publications) and files you added to your OpenScholar site. This is helpful if you are co-creating content with another user on a site.

 

Screencast: Add a New Member to Your OpenScholar Site

This screencast will show you how to add a new member, change their role, and delete them from the site. This will also go over how a person with a valid NetID can create an OpenScholar account without creating a site (so they can be added to another site).

 

Screencast: Setting Your OpenScholar Site to Public on the Web or Private

This screencast will show you how to set your site to private or to public on the web.

 

Screencast: Adding a Publication to Your OpenScholar Site

This screencast will show you how to turn on the Publications app, change the settings, and how to add a new publication (and link to the article on the journal's website).

 

Screencast: Adding a Slideshow (Rotating Banner) to Your OpenScholar Site

This screencast will show you how to create a slideshow widget (rotating banner) and where to place in your layout on your site.

 

Screencast: Adding an Image Gallery to Your OpenScholar Site

This screencast will show you how to add an image gallery (media gallery) to your site. It will go over the layout of the gallery and how to upload, add, and label images.

 

Screencast: Accessing Revisions for Your OpenScholar Site

This screencasts will show you how to access the Revisions tool so you can revert back to a pervious edit. The Apps that have revisions built in are: Basic Pages, Blog, Booklets, FAQ, Links, News, Porfiles, and Publications.

Screencast: How to Edit Your Menu in OpenScholar

This screencast will show you how to add items, reorder items, and how to next items in your primary menu inside OpenScholar.