Home Page Events

Welcome to the Homepage Events section of Schools-On-I-Net.   

CLICK HERE to download the complete Homepage Events Maintenance help file.

Here you can enter events & news to be posted in the news box on divisional homepages.  

• You can post them today or schedule them to be posted at a later date.  
• Post events for the entire school or for a particular division.  
• You can use different fonts and colors; add pictures, hyperlinks and attachments.  
• Here you can enter events & news to be posted in the news box on divisional homepages.  
• You can post them today or schedule them to be posted at a later date.  
• Post events for the entire school or for a particular division. 
• You can use different fonts and colors; add pictures, hyperlinks and attachments.
• Set event sequence to make sure important events are seen first.

Enter Homepage Event

1. To begin scheduling Homepage Events click on the Homepage Event Setup link located on the lower part of your left hand side navigation links. 
2. Once you click on the link, a new window will open. This is the Homepage Event Maintenance window.
3. If you have any events currently posted, you will see them on this page.
   • By default you will see events posted for ALL divisions in the last month.
   • To search for a specific event, select the division from the School dropdown menu and also select the date below.
   • Click on the GO button.  

To add a new event:

1.  click on the Add Event button.
2. On the Homepage Content Entry/Update window, select homepages where this event should be displayed.
3. Selecting ALL will check off all the checkboxes and all schools/divisions will see this event on the divisional homepage.
4. Enter Title of this event and select whether this is a Special Event*.
   • * Special Event – If you select an event to be posted as a special event, this event will be posted in a special place on the homepage as well as in the news box. Whatever image you choose for this event, will be displayed in that special spot and it will become a link to the Homepage Events news page. Please make sure the image for the special event is of size 226 * 203 and the resolution is 300 dpi. If you opt not to select it to be a special event, the event will still show in the news box and on the Homepage Events page.
5. Enter description of this event. We recommend using one font type for all events but there are many different formatting options to choose from when entering the description.    
   • Note: If you are copying the description from another program (ex. Word document) we strongly recommend copying the text into Notepad first and then copy and paste it from Notepad into the description field. The reason for this is that many programs add formatting code which you can’t see. Once you copy the text with the code to the description field, the formatting will be different and it may not match. The best thing to do is to paste it into Notepad which removes any formatting and then copy and paste it here and add your own format.
6. You can add image to be displayed on the right or left side of the text you are entering.
   1. To do so first select the image format from the Format dropdown menu.
   2. You have a choice of Right Image or Left Image.
   3. Once you make your choice, a new dropdown menu will show below. Use this dropdown menu to choose an image which you would like to post with this event.
   4. You can choose from images which are already there or you can upload your own image using the Add Image button.
      • Once you click on the Add Image button a small window will open.
      • Locate the image on your computer using the Browse button and upload it once you are done.
7. The next option is Attachments.
   • You can add up to three attachments to any event.
   • The attachments will be displayed as a link on the bottom of the event description.
   • Users will be able to click on it and open it.
   • To add an attachment click on the Attach link.
   • A small window will open.
   • Click on the Browse button to locate the file on your computer.
   • Select the file and click on Upload. In the title textbox type a title of this attachment You can leave this blank if you’d like.
   • Once you have uploaded the attachment, you will notice that the Attach link has changed to say Remove.
   • Clicking on the Remove link will remove the current attachment. 
8. Now select the Publish Date.
   • Publish Dates are the dates when this event will be shown in the news box on the homepage as well as the Homepage event popup.
   • By default every event is shown for one month.
   • You can change this by selecting a different date using the dropdown menu as shown on the picture below.
   • Once you are done, click on the Save button and your event is now posted or scheduled to be posted online.
   • Once you have Saved this event you will be taken back to the Homepage Event Maintenance page.
   • On this page you can see your event.
   • To make any changes to a particular event you have to select it first by checking off the check box in the select column next to that event. 
9. Once you have selected the event you can click on any of these action buttons:
   • Preview – See how this event will be displayed on the Homepage Event page.
   • From this page you can also print the events.
   • Delete – Permanently removes the selected event.
   • Update – Allows you to make changes to the current event. 

Event Sequence

You can change the sequence of how the events will be displayed on the Homepage Events page.

• To change the sequence of events select the school from the dropdown menu on top and locate the event you want to change the sequence of.
• Select that event by checking off the check box in the select column and click on the Preview button. 
• On the preview page you will see all the events which are currently posted.
• Each event has a number in a little box on the bottom right side of that event. This number indicates the spot this event takes on the events page.
• To change the sequence of how this event is displayed, change the number in that box.
  • For example if the number says 2 this means that this event is in the second place on the Homepage Events page.
  • To move it to first place, change that number to 1.
  • So this event will become event 1 and event 1 will become event 2.
  • Once you are done making changes click on the Update Sequence button.
• You can also print a list of these events by using the Print button on this page.  

Event Description Formatting Options

1. Font:
   • Type in your message in the white area on the page.
   • Using your mouse highlight the message you wrote and click on this icon to change the font.
   • Select the font type and color and click on OK. 
2. You can also insert tables by clicking on this icon .
   • To insert a quick table, click on the little arrow next to the table icon as pictured below.
   • Pointing to the little squares in the popup window will highlight them indicating a number of cells and columns which will make up your table.
     • Ex. if you highlight four cells across in two rows it means that your table will have two rows with four columns.
     • It will be a 2 x 4 table.
     • If you click on the table icon and not the arrow next to it, a small popup window will open. 
     • Using this window you can enter a more complicated table.
       • Enter # of rows and columns.
       • Enter border strength. The higher number you choose, the darker the table border will be.
       • Select Border color.
       • Select background color.
       • Select text color.
       • While you are making your selections, you will see the Table Style Preview in the same window. This preview lets you know how your table will look once you insert it. The preview keeps changing while you are making changes to the table properties.
       • Once you are done making your selection click on Insert Table. 
3. You can insert pictures by clicking on this icon .
   • A small popup window will open.
   • Click on the Browse button to locate the image on your computer.
   • Locate the image on your computer and then click on the Upload button.
   • Now you need to insert this image. Once you have uploaded one or a couple of images you will see them on the right hand side in the same popup window.
   • Click on that image and then click on the Insert button.
   • Your image is now inserted into the description.