Joining SWS

We require the school name approved by the NSW Minister for Education, which is communicated via the School Lifecycle Pipeline.

The School Website Service and the Foundations Lifecycle teams reference information in the pipeline, to plan and deliver our work for new schools.

Provisional school names cannot be accepted, as the URL and other behind the scenes configuration has to be set up in line with the official school name.

The school code is required because it forms the basis of permission groups and other configurations (such as for online enrolment, make a payment etc.) for your website.

The school website domain name will reflect the school email address for consistency, therefore the email address should be configured before you approach us.

For school email enquiries, please call EDConnect on 1300 32 32 32.

We need to add a point of contact for your new school.

If your school does not yet have a fixed land line, you can supply us with an alternate number and you can update the phone number on your website at a later stage.

We require the latitude and longitude of your school address. 

Use this guide to get coordinates from Google Maps.

We will create a site based on your school type:

• Primary
• Secondary
• Central
• Other (custom site).

Take a look at the site maps for primary, secondary and central schools.

We will provide pages, with customised global content, based on the years your school caters to:

• Preschool
  
• Kindergarten
• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3
• Year 4
• Year 5
• Year 6
• Year 7
• Year 8
• Year 9
• Year 10
• Year 11
• Year 12

When you supply your school logo, the dimensions need to be:

• 130x150 pixels, or
• 260x300 pixels (double size), or
  
• 3x4 cms.

The maximum file size is 50KB.

We recommend a PNG file format with a transparent background.

You may also use SVG format for your logo which will scale up to larger sizes with high quality. For SVG logos, you will need to have the original vector graphic version of your logo.

If you advise that you're unable to supply your new logo at this time, we will use the NSW Government logo (example below) and you can change the website logo later.

The logo image will appear in the header and footer of your website.

The theme defines the look and feel of your entire website.

See examples of the available themes you can choose from, including Theme 1 which the majority of our school websites utilise.

It's important to choose a primary colour for your website that suits your school and logo.

You can find the required Hex values for any colour using Adobe's colour wheel,

Learn more about the colour selector used for your website.

Your supplied banner image dimensions must be in accordance with your chosen theme.

The banner sits in the top section of your homepage.

If you cannot supply an image for the banner at this time, we will place one stock image which you can later change using the Hero banner or Banner components.

We will provide initial access to your nominated staff members who will be responsible for adding local content to your new website.

For each staff member of your web team, please provide us with their DoE email address and advise which one of the following two levels of access is required:

1. Author - can make changes, but cannot publish them live to the public.
2. Approver - can approve author changes which will publish them live, and also make/publish their own changes.

Schools are then responsible for managing staff access to their school website through Manage My Access and Manage Staff Access.