Web Services

Training & Tutorials

Content Management System Training

The Office of Communications offers the following resources for web training. We are currently transitioning to a new content management system. We will be using Cascade in place of Site Executive, starting January 2012. During this time we have a different web training process in place. See below to find out what the process is:

Cascade

Site Executive

Content Management System Training - we will be offering training for our new Content Management System, Cascade. Any full-time faculty or staff member will be able to register for training once their site is migrated into Cascade.

Frequently Asked Questions - A number of frequently asked questions are answered here.
Read FAQs

Content Management System Training - we offer training for our current Content Management System, Site Executive if your unit web site is already in Site Executive. Any full-time faculty or staff member can register for training.
Register for Training

Tutorials - we have a number of tutorials that cover a number of tasks including optimizing images for the web, exporting form results, and modifying your browser settings for Site Executive.
View Tutorials

Frequently Asked Questions - A number of frequently asked questions are answered here.
Read FAQs

How do I get signed up to migrate my site to Cascade?

Our production schedule is completely full through the end of March 2013.
Contact Daniela Petrovska, Web Communications Manager, if you would like to have your existing site added to the list and scheduled for migration.

Site Executive Tutorials

General Web Editing

Editing images, creating PDFs,
or zip files

  • Standardized Tools
    There are a number of tools we recommend using for tasks like editing images, creating PDF documents, and creating zip files.

Additional Training

This page last updated Sep 26, 2012

Office of Communications
Arthur J. Rubloff Building
420 East Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 312-503-8194
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