School website service training and support

Contact us form

Use this guide to configure the options for the Contact us form.  By default this form sends any submissions through to your school email address but you can also specify specific contact details if you would like to direct enquiries to particular email addresses for specific types of requests.

Before you start

Navigate to your homepage and open the properties of the homepage.

Step 1: Add the form component and choose the Contact Us form

  • Follow the instructions to add the form component and edit the form component
  • Open the format path window by clicking on the tick beside the Form Path field.
  • Choose the contact us schools form from the DoE Forms folder by selecting the thumbnail beside the form.
  • Then choose the blue Select button.

Step 2: Filling the forms general details

  • Configure the component 
  • Fill in the fields (the "Form Title" and the "Description" fields are mandatory)
  • Click on the tick on the top right hand of the component box to save.

Step 3: Go to the homepage properties

  • Open the homepage properties by selecting the page information icon
  • Choose Open properties from the page information menu

  • Select the School Metadata tab
  • Scroll down to the Campus section settings
  • Under Campus staff click Add

Step 4: Configure the staff contact details

  • Type in the name of the contact in the Staff Full Name field (1)
  • Type in the name for the Staff Role or Title in the field of the same name (2)
  • Type in the email address to be used for the contact in the Staff Email field. Note that the email address must end in @det.nsw.edu.au (3)
  • Click on the Add button if you want to add further contact details (4)
  • If you want to remove someone from the contact list, click on the trash-can icon (5)
  • You can use the arrange icon to change the order if needed (6)

  • Select the blue Save and Close button to apply the changes.

Publish your changes

  • For changes to be updated on your live school website you will need to publish the page

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