If you want to succeed, you will…
AP BIOLOGY WEBSITE CONSTRUCTION SHEET
Congratulations on choosing to take AP Biology! One of your first tasks will be to
construct your personal AP Biology website. This website will be used throughout the
school year to turn in assignments. You will be required to include certain pages on
your website. The design layout will be completely up to you.
You will first need to go to your Gmail account at https://accounts.google.com .
If the first link did not bring you to a page that looks like the following, try this link;
www.mail.plato.k12.mo.us .
Next, enter your full email address supplied to you, and your password. Now you are
in to your email account supplied to you courtesy of Plato High School! (Use it
appropriately!
Next, go to the top right corner of your mail screen and switch to “sites”. Look below
to see this location and what to click on.
If you want to succeed, you will…
You should now see a screen resembling the one below. Click on create new site.
At this point you can choose a template for your site (choose to browse the gallery or
Select a theme). You will also need to name the site something unique to your content
and yourself; such as “AP Rocks!”... maybe?
Make sure the name of your site includes the phrase AP Biology.
Template
Template
Next, Click on the “more options” tab. Here, you will be able to describe your site.
There is no need to fill in the site categories box. Once you are satisfied with your
choices, scroll to the top of the page and click “create”.
You will now see your “homepage”. Our next step will be to create pages for your
assignments. You will need to have the following pages on you website;
Abstracts, Group Projects, Individual Projects, Labs and Summer Assignments.
The following links will need to be on your “homepage”; (this could be another page)
EZtest, eConnect, Scoreboard, classmates’ websites
If you want to succeed, you will…
At the top of your homepage you will four buttons as shown below. The first button
will allow you to edit the page you are on. The second button will allow you to add
pages to your site. The third button will allow you to edit the site. The fourth button
will allow you to share your site.
 Button 1: If you want (and you do) to tweak your site… this is your button! Be
creative, add pictures, make it you (and school appropriate)!
 Button 2: Let’s add some pages!
o Click on the add pages button
o Name your new page and add it to your sidebar UNDER the homepage
o Click create
o Repeat for all required pages
 Button 3: Check this one out!
o Print pages, make changes, etc
 Button 4: Make sure Plate RV School district is chosen.
Okay… let’s go and link some sites to our homepage.
 Go to the page that will have the links present
 Click on the edit button
 Type an abbreviated phrase describing what is being linked
 Highlight the phrase, and click the link button (looks like a chain)
 Click on “web address”
 Paste in the URL being linked to
 Click okay. Your phrase should be blue and underlined
 Click save at the top of the page.
 Try your link to make sure it works.
Your website address:
The name of your site.plato.k12.mo.us