Website editors can gain access to become publishers after they meet the have successfully completed the following criteria:

• At least 20 website updates to the 'Needs Review' queue without error.
• Passes the Mandatory Bi-Annual Publisher Training Quiz with at least 90% or higher.

After you take the quiz we will reach out to schedule publisher training with the Web & Digital Strategy (WDS) team.

Units can now check their site for broken links using the new Broken Links Report page! Search for broken site links for your website by filtering the broken link results by unit.

You can see the page title to where the broken link was found, the link itself, and the link to edit the page, making it easy to find and update the links.

The Fail Count column shows the number of times the link has failed. Keep in mind that the link checker sometimes does give false positives.

How to add a new mailing list and subscription form to website – Developer Guide

1. Create a new mailing list – can import a new list
2. Add a ‘Mailing list’ block, select mailing list created, change title, and add path for page(s).
3. Setup permissions for mailing list.
   1. <mailing list name> Access any subscriptions
   2. <mailing list name> Edit any subscriptions
   3. <mailing list name> Delete any subscriptions
   4. Subscribe to <mailing list name>

How to Add or Update your Biography

To add or update a biography for your directory profile,

1. Go to https://apps.uis.edu/directory/
2. Search your name
3. Scroll to the bottom (if needed) and click edit
4. Click the ‘Update biography, area of specialization, or area of expertise’ link.

There are options to include:

Below are the image sizes for use across the site.

All images should be saved at 72 dpi.

Pages

Department Homepage Banner
1920 x 1080px

Department Subpage Banner
1920 x 700px

Articles

Article Banner
1920 x 700 for shorter header and 1920 x 1080px for full screen

Headshot (show on profile pages and can be used in list views)
200 x 300

As a language model trained on a vast amount of text data, Generative AI models, like ChatGPT, can provide high-quality and relevant content suggestions for your website. It can assist in creating engaging article posts, program descriptions, and marketing copy, as well as improve the overall readability and coherence of your website's content. With its natural language processing capabilities, ChatGPT can also help in generating content for social media, to help further promote and drive traffic to the website.

Download the UIS Examity Quick Guide for Students.

1. Accessing Examity

You can access Examity® through your course on Canvas. Click on the Examity link within the course.

Click to log in to Examity.

This will take you to your Examity dashboard.

Publishers can publish and review content and schedule a page or revision to be published on a future date. Publishers are responsible for reviewing all changes made by editors in their unit, working with editors to identify and resolve issues with accessibility, usability and site content, and publishing page updates once finalized and approved. 

Developer Guide

1. Create a new mailing list – can import a new list.