Before you start editing content within the Editor you need to set up a user name and password to log in.

onCourse enables any user to also have the ability to log into and edit content within the Editor using the same log in credentials that you use to access onCourse . To do this go to File > Preferences > Security and open the relevant user record, then tick the box 'Can access #editor'.

Access the editor by visiting your website and adding #editor at the end of the url. For example, if your website url is http://www.acme.com.au the editor can be accessed at http://www.acme.com.au#editor.

Log in using your email address.

Once logged in, a toolbar is visible to the left hand side of the window. You can continue to browse through your site as normal while logged into the Editor.

On the toolbar, you can see icons that allows you to quickly access the primary areas of the Editor. At the bottom of the toolbar, there is an option to publish any changes you've made. This will push all your changes to the production servers so they are visible to everyone.

While you are logged into the editor you are looking at a draft version of the site which cannot be seen by anyone not also logged into the editor. Changes you make with webDAV (static files, images, javascript, css, etc) are also only visible while logged in to the editor, until you publish the site.

Navigate through the Editor by using the icons on the toolbar. These icons allows you to access different areas of the Editor quickly.

Blocks are re-usable snippets of text, pictures, rich text markup, etc. If you wanted to add a banner on every page of your web site or an area on several different pages dedicated to a contact form, blocks are ideal. Even if you only use them once, they are a convenient way to break apart complicated pages into easy to edit pieces.

Many pages on your website are automatically generated from onCourse. These pages include:

Pages not automatically generated from onCourse can be created in the Editor. The Pages view shows a list of all the static pages in your website and gives you quick access to search for, edit and delete pages. Similar to the Block view, clicking on a Page will open text editor.

From the Content view, the primary header navigation can be edited from 'Menus'.

Most websites have a primary navigation menu which users will use to find their way around. In Menu's you can add new menu items, and link them to particular pages or external URLs.

The SkillsonCourse Settings page allows you to manage the amount of information that is able to Tutors in the SkillsonCourse portal.

Hide student contact details from tutor: When a tutor is viewing the class roll via the SkillsonCourse, you can determine whether you want them to be able to view the email address, phone numbers of each student listed on the class roll. Please note that it is not possible to not display the contact details for one class, but display it for another, as this setting is universally applied.

The below SkillsonCourse portal view shows the student contact details displayed within the class roll. By specifying that you do not want the contact details to be displayed, this class list would simply show as a list of student names.

The website settings page gives a few different options on how things are displayed on the website.

Add This is a powerful social media linking tool that enables you to insert social media links into your web pages, as well as giving you access to analytical tools to gain insight into your audience.

Add This accounts are free and the first step is to create a new account. Do this by clicking the 'Click here' link. Set up your account including specifying which social media links you wish to display on your website, the size and format of those links, as well as the free analytics tools that are part of your account set up.

Once complete, insert the Add This id into the field provided. You can choose what pages the Add This! buttons appear on by ticking the 'Course' or 'Web Page' boxes below the Add This! field.

Add This also gives you a snippet of HTML to put into your site. You can put this HTML snippet into a page or block manually.

<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->
<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style ">
    <a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a>
    <a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a>
    <a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a>
    <a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a>
    <a class="addthis_button_compact"></a>
    <a class="addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style"></a>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-4f0fc25723d304e0"></script><
!-- AddThis Button END-->
                

If you insert the social media links to your course information, it displays as follows.

Hide Classes on Website/Stop web enrolments Here you can set classes to hide or stop taking enrolments automatically after some threshold is passed. For examples, after a class starts, before a class starts after a class ends or beforea class ends.

Show Suburbs from The 'Show suburbs from' dropdown allows you to filter out suburbs being returned in the site search. For example, when entering the search query 'Newtown', with 'Show suburbs from' set to 'All states' the advanced search will return classes from:

Setting 'Show suburbs from' to NSW will just return:

Once you have finished changing your website settings, hit 'SAVE' to apply them.

The redirect settings allow you to create 301 redirects to your website by entering the path in the field on the left (starting with '/') and the destination in the field on the right (either starting with '/' for another local page or starting with http/https for redirecting to another website)

You can edit an existing redirect by changing the From and To parameters.

Clicking 'ADD NEW' creates a new redirect at the bottom of the redirects, with blank From and To parameters.

Themes are a way to describe a page structure made up by a number of blocks and is a design layout created for you by your designer. There will always be a layout called "default". If you want different parts of your site to have very different looks, ask your designer to create alternative layouts for you to use.

Each theme can have a number of blocks arranged in any way you choose. There are five regions available:

Each region can contain one or more blocks which you click and drag from the right hand side 'Blocks' area. To remove a block, click and drag it back into the list of unused blocks on the right. Order the blocks on the page by clicking and dragging them into position.

For each published revision of the site, there is an option to revert to that version. Click 'Revert' to roll your site back to how it was on the given date. Note that this cannot be undone.