These pages training resources are intended for those with permission to edit the content on the RRU website.
To edit web content, you must have a role on the site. Roles have permission to access particular areas and do certain things on the site. If you need to be assigned a role, please ask your manager to submit a ticket to IT requesting Writer, Editor or Publisher access, depending on your departmental needs, and indicating which department you are with.
If you're responsible for web content at RRU, you need to know about the following four kinds of information. If you have suggestions for additions or modifications to this documentation, please contact the Web Strategist.
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Writing for the Web
In the summer of 2021, we launched our new website which is a modern system with a fresh new design. We also edited most existing content so that across the whole site, we have one tone and voice and all of our writing follows university guidelines.
To be a successful contributor to our web presence, it's important that you are familiar with those guidelines so that your writing fits in with existing content. Please read these Writing for the Web resources before adding or editing content on the website:
- Voice and tone
- Online reading trends
- Tips for readability
- Avoiding common mistakes
- Accessibility
- Image guidelines
- RRU Editorial Style Guide
- RRU Editorial Style Guide (at-a-glance) (print and keep near your keyboard!)
- Writing exercises (worksheets to help you make good writing decisions)
Governance, Roles, Workflow, Content Ownership
Workflow and Content ownership (diagrams)
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Problems accessing the site
If you are having problems accessing the website, please make sure you are going to the correct URL: www.royalroads.ca/user/login and that you're selecting the "Log in using Identity Provider" option as shown below:
As this site uses our Microsoft credentials to log in, please also ensure that you're entering your username followed by "@royalroads.ca" like this, even though the prompt says to enter your password:
On the next screen, enter your usual password - the same one you use to log onto the computer, or into Moodle, etc.
If you're doing all of that and still having problems accessing the site, please contact IT Services to request assistance.
Problems or questions relating to the content including adding new pages or changing navigation
Contact the Web Strategist
Using the CMS
Technical details
Our website uses Drupal version 8 as the Content Management System (CMS) and is hosted by Yellow Pencil, a company that worked with us to complete the upgrade. Together, we designed and built templates for many of the different kinds of pages we use on our site, such as a topic page, a faculty biography page or a news page. Each template allows you to choose from a selection of components (building blocks) that you can use to format your page in a particular way. Using these, you can create your own web pages that fit nicely into the existing site. You can find more information about content page types and components below.
Hands-on
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If you're new to working with our website, we recommend going through the material below in the order that it is presented. If you're here to remind yourself of how to complete a specific task, click on the link for that task for quick reference. |
(1) Take a tour of the site
(2) Review the glossary and definitions
(3) Learn about the types of components you can add to pages
(4) Using the right images on the website
(5) Log in to the site
(6) Add new content (add/edit a page)
(7) Get familiar with how different fields behave
(8) Things not to do/change on the new website
(9) Best practices
(10) Add a new topic page
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Because a Topic page is the most commonly used type, it is discussed in detail in the article linked above. In articles relating to other page types, less detail is provided. If you skip this page, you will be missing important information. |
(11) Bumps and wrinkles (tips and tricks)
(12) Learn about other content page types (and how to create them)
(13) Custom Course Lists
Quick links:
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