Add school notes

Use this guide to create a new page and add your school notes.

Step 1: Log in

• Log in to Adobe Experience Manager.

• If your school notes are already uploaded to Assets, skip to Step 5.

Step 2: Navigate to Assets

• Navigate to Assets.

• Select Column View from the drop-down as this is the easiest to use. See our guide on Views.

• Your school's folder will already be selected.
• Scroll to the right to see your assets.

• Select the folder where you want to save your school notes, or proceed to Step 3 to create a new folder.
  

Step 3. Create a new Assets folder (optional)

• To create a new folder, click on Create, then select Folder from the drop-down menu.

• Enter the name of the folder in the Title field.
• Select Create.

Step 4: Upload your school notes

• Select Create.
• Select File.

• Select the school note document(s) you want to upload to your Assets, and select Open.

• Select Upload.

Step 5: Navigate to Sites

• If you are under Assets, select Adobe Experience Manager. 
  

• Select Sites.

• Your school's Home page will already be selected.

Step 6: Create a new page

• Select the existing page you would like your new page to sit below. Do not select the icon next to the page with the tick. In the example below, the new page will be a child page of Home.
• Click on Create, then select Page from the drop-down menu.

• Select Content page template.
• Select Next.

• Enter the Title of your new page. This title will be used on the page, in the URL and in the navigation menu. In the example below, we have used Notes for the title.
• Do not fill out any other fields.
• Select Create.

• A success message will appear once the page is created.
• Select Open to edit the page.
  
• Alternatively you can select Done to edit your page later.

Step 7: Edit your page

• Select Edit near the top right of the page. 

Step 8: Add and edit the Rich text editor component

• Select Drag components here.
  
• Select the plus sign.

• Select the Rich text editor from the Insert New Component list.
• Text components that you add will be outlined in blue. The words 'Rich text editor' also appear in the bottom right corner of the box. 

• Select the Rich text editor component.
• Select the spanner icon to add text. This is the Configure button.

• Enter the text for your link. In the example below: we have added Athletics Carnival permission note (PDF 150KB).
• It is important to add the file size in the text, so that users understand how big the file is before downloading.
• Highlight the text and select the chain icon from the toolbar - Hyperlink.

• In the Path field, select the tick icon to navigate through your Assets to the folder where you uploaded your school note document. 

• Locate and select the file name. Your selection will turn blue.
• Click on Select. 

• Click on the tick near the bottom right of the pop-up window to confirm. 

• Note that the text has become bold and underlined.
• Select the tick icon in the top right to save and close the Rich text editor.
• The page now has text which links to the school note document.

Step 9: Publish your page

• For changes to be updated on your live school website you will need to publish the page.
• Select Page Information (slider icon near the top left corner).
• Select Publish Page from the drop-down menu. 
• If you don't see Publish Page you are an Author and will need to select Start Workflow instead. Go to our Author publish a page for more information.

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• PDF guidelines