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Welcome to The Paperless Classroom: all-inclusive classroom web site

This is a special gift for Learn it in 5 members.

These are step-by-step instructions for building an all-inclusive paperless classroom web site. My online course participants pay nearly $500 for this information, but as a member of Learn it in 5, it's yours free.

Begin by viewing this video to see what you will create.

Getting Started

1. To start creating a site like the one you just saw, begin by registering for your own EditMe web site.
2. Click here and complete the form. NOTE: use the coupon code 1919 to get free access today.
3. When you finish the form, you will be taken to an EditMe page that has your new web site's web address at the top. It will look like this:

Sign-up Complete

Thanks for choosing EditMe! You may now access your site at http://yoursitename.editme.com

 You will need your new username and password to log our site.

Site Design

1. Once you are logged into your new web site, click settings in the upper right corner; You'll be taken to a Site Administration dashboard
2. Click the Design tab on the left side of the Dashboard; then click Skins (see graphic to the right)
   1. You will be taken to a screen with a menu of design templates, called "Skins"
3. Although you are welcome to choose any skin package you wish later, for our work today, you MUST select one of the Yorktown skins
4. Click on the picture of the Yorktown skin that you desire, and you'll be taken to an install page; once there, click Apply this Skin
5. Click Exit in the upper right corner, and you'll see your new-look classroom web site
6. Improve the look of your banner and home page: view the brief video below

Adding New Pages

1. Click New in the upper right side of your home page
2. You might call your page, Homework, or Useful Links
3. Click Submit
4. In the space below the toolbar, begin adding text -- a homework assignment, perhaps, or a phrase that might be a link to an outside web site

 

Creating links to pages and outside web sites

1. To link to an outside web site, type a phrase that you want to lead to that site; for example, The History Channel might be a link to historychannel.com
2. Select the phrase or word that will become the link
3. Click the chain link icon on the toolbar to open up a link box
4. Copy the web address you want and paste it into the link URL field in the box
5. Click insert; view the one-minute video below for a demo

 

Creating Student Web Sites

1. Begin by installing the user pages module, located under settings, site, modules (see video below)
2. Click User pages 1.2 at the bottom of the list
   1. Click Install this module
   2. Click the view the module tab, once the installation is complete
3. Click Go to the Create User Pages Screen
4. Add a current student or make up a student, just for practice
   1. NOTE: be sure to make the username lastnamefirstname and make the password first name
5. The e-mail is required, but they can all be the same (I always select a generic e-mail like, smith@yahoo.com)
6. Click Create Users
7. Return to the User Pages Module
8. Scroll down and click Add Private User Page Link
   1. Click Add Link
9. Test your new student page: log out and login as the student
   1. You should see the View your private page link on the left menu, which will take the student to his private work space
10. Log out as a student and back in as you (see video below)
11. Go to the index, located on the top toolbar
12. You will find your student located in this alphabetical index

 

 

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