Teacher Web Sites – CMS4Schools (Administrator of GHS Web site)
Resources – Prepared by Sally Kowalczyk
Updated 9/5/11
All exisiting ClassZoom faculty Web sites will transition to CMS4Schools
(www.germantownschools.org) on Friday, September 16. At that time, teacher Web site links
(accessible from the Department navigation link on the GHS home page) set up through
ClassZoom will no longer be accessible through the GHS site.
If you want to transition away from ClassZoom sooner, please e-mail Sally Kowalczyk.
(New) Faculty Web Sites
All teaching staff have their own faculty Web site that initially contains one page containing
data from your “Personal Profile”—which currently has your Name and e-mail address.
You can see your actual page by adding your login name after “/faculty/”. For example,
Sally Kowalczyk’s is: http://www.germantownschools.org/faculty/skowalczyk
While you can view your site from the “/faculty/” link, you must be logged in to make changes.
Logging In
(You may want to save the link as a
http://www.germantownschools.org/faculty
favorite on your browser.)
Your login/password is the same as the Staff Intranet.
Structure of a Page
When you look at a page, it appears
to be seamless; however, it actually
is built in layers of ‘tools’.
The most common tools you will use
in the main body of your site are:
 Text/Graphic Editor
 Resources/News
The Right Side Bar has fewer
options, but includes similar tools.
The main body can have various tools/layers, as can the
right side bar—similar to the following diagram:
Main Body
[tool]
R-Side Bar
[tool]
[tool]
[tool]
[tool]
[tool]
Editing your Home Page;
Adding Pages
Changes to your site, including adding pages, is primarily
be done through the “My Navigation Builder Home”
link on the left side bar.
Recommendation: Please access additional resources listed at the bottom
of page 2 prior to making changes to your site; they will
help you better understand what you can do with the
site and how to do it.
Teacher Web Sites – CMS4SchoolsResources
Faculty Web Site Overview
“My Navigation Builder Home”
Updated 9/5/11
Displays a table of all site pages. Initially it will only
show “My Home Page” as a Level 1 link. Level 1 links
are the main navigation links that appear on the left side
bar. You can add Level 1, 2, or 3 links (pages) as needed.
Until Friday, September 16, you
may be able to add content to a
page by simply copying your
existing ClassZoom content:
Under the “Page Detail” heading you can add/edit
Highlight content, copy, open information in the Main Body or on a Right Side Bar.
a Text/Graphic Editor tool on
the new site (or click on
When adding a page of information, you must:
update under the tool), and
Step 1: Create a Page
paste onto your
Step 2: Add content to the new page
CMS4Schools site.
To Create a Page, click on “Add Page” under the
NOTE: Any time that you save a
Navigation Builder title.
page, it is immediately uploaded to
This will create another page (or row) to the
the site. Therefore, you may want
Navigation Builder table.
to select “Inactive” as you build a
page.
You will need to identify the name of your
navigation link/bar, and identify it as either a
Other links on “My Navigation
separate page or as a link that takes the visitor to
Builder Home”:
another site.
“Update” – Use to change the name
of your navigation link, its order
To Add Content onto a Page, add a tool from the
and/or level, as well as the page
selections in the drop-down box at the top of the page.
title.
“Delete” – Use to delete a page. All To Edit Content on a Page, click on the “Update” link
content must be removed from a
located at the bottom of the tool/layer you want to edit.
page before it can be deleted.
Additional Resources
Log in to http://www.germantownschools.org/faculty
Click on “Faculty Help Manual” in
the left side bar.
Faculty Web Site Administration
(Written instructions: 4 pg PDF file)
This will open a set of links on the
Group Training Videos
main portion of the screen. These
2 videos that would be helpful to view:
links include
Quick Start Guide (12 minutes)
Provides a very good overview of the
overall structure of the site.
Faculty Web Site Training (49 minutes)
Shows step-by-step how to add various
pages to your site.
If you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact Sally K: skowalczyk@germantown.k12.wi.us
Teacher Web Sites – CMS4SchoolsResources
Updated 9/5/11
Sample Teacher Web Sites:
Interested in seeing what some GHS staff have done with their Web sites? Under Departments
on the GHS Web site, check out the following:
Social Studies
Kent Korek (there’s more to the site than what you see—talk to Ken if
interested)
Dick Zache
Science
Cindy Collins
Todd Krupicka
Lisa Kurth
English
Patty Sibbernsen (Per Patty—a work in progress )
Foreign Language
Nicole Jones
Math
Deb Bauman