Content Holders are used for populating your Schoolzine Web pages, or displaying information within the Side Panel of your newsletter. We recommend populating content in your side panel of the newsletter that you need available to your community, but don’t necessarily want in the body of your newsletter. This can include information such as Term Dates, Upcoming Events, Office Hours, Important Information or Forms & Documents.
Adding a Content Holder to your Web Page
- Log in to your Control Centre and select the Content tab.
- Once expanded, select Content Holders and select the Content Holder you have created in the prior step, OR click the New Content Holder button.
- If you have created a new content holder, fill in the Name and Title fields for your Content Holder.
Note: The Name field is what displays in the Control Centre. The Title field is what displays in the Web Page. - Add your content and apply any necessary styling using the toolbar menu. This includes inserting any hyperlinks, documents, or images.
- Once you have saved the Content Holder, you will be able view this on your Web Page, or if it is a new item you can add it to the relevant Web Page.
Adding a Content Holder to your eNewslettter Side Panel
- Log in to your Control Centre and select the Content tab.
- Once expanded, select Content Holders and click the New Content Holder button.
- Complete the Name and Title fields for your Content Holder.
Note: The Name field is what displays in the Control Centre. The Title field is what displays in the Newsletter. - If you would like the Content Holder to appear on a specific day, you can select a Release Date. By default, the Release Date is set to the current date. You can also select an Expiry Date by unticking the ‘Never’ box and selecting the date that you would like the Content Holder to be removed from the newsletter.
Note: You can also temporarily disable a Content Holder by unticking the Status box. - Apply a tag if relevant (Newsletter tag will display the Content Holder in the Side Panel of your newsletter.)
Note: If you would like the Content Holder to appear on other pages within your eNewsletter, such as your Archive or Subscribe Web Form, select the Page tag. - Apply a Weighting to your Content Holder. You will need to apply a value greater than 10 for it to appear in the correct starting position. The higher the value, the further up the newsletter’s Side Panel it will display.
- Add your content and apply any necessary styling using the toolbar menu. This includes inserting any hyperlinks, documents, or images.
- Once you have saved the Content Holder, you will be able to view it on your newsletter’s Side Panel.
Handy Hints
- Ensure that your images are no wider than 220px. You can resize your images to the correct size by using the Schoolzine Image Resizer.
- We recommended not uploading files larger in size than 1 MB.
- Clean your text to ensure that your content displays correctly and any hidden characters or symbols are removed. To clean your text, paste it into a program such as Notepad or Wordpad, then copy it from this program into your Content Holder.
- We recommended using a call to action for any files or URLs (web addresses) that you include in your message to avoid your content being missed! eg. “Click here to download” or “Click here to view”.
Adding a Document
- Upload the document by selecting the Content menu tab and going to Media Library.
Note: See the Media Library tutorial for more information.
- Select the text you would like your document linked to. Click on the Link button and select Link to Document. Click on the search button next to Page URL to display all documents you have in your account, then select the document you would like to link.
Adding an Image
- Click on the Image button, select Upload New and then choose the image that you want to insert.
Note: For Images in the Side Panel they cannot exceed 220px wide. It is also possible to link an image that you have previously uploaded into your Schoolzine account.
Adding a URL (web address)
- Select the text you would like your URL (web address) linked to. Click on the Link button, select Link to Page and then paste in the required link to the Page URL field.
Video
The following steps can be used to insert a Youtube or Vimeo video:
- Click on the Video Play icon.
- Simply paste the video URL (web address) or ID into the box and select Ok.
- Use the tick boxes at the bottom of this popup to choose whether you would like to show suggested videos, or remove the video heading.
Direct Video Embed
- If you have been given an embed code for a video, such as a WISTIA video, this can be added through the Embed Code tab then selecting the OK button.
NOTE
: Some videos that are embedded from other sources such as Facebook or Panopto, will not render correctly in your PDF print version so may need to be hidden from your content. For more information on hiding elements of content from your print version, see the PDF Formatting Options section of the Navigating the Toolbar & Content Window Knowledge Base Article.
Editing a Content Holder
- Log in to your Control Centre and select the Content tab.
- Once expanded, select Content Holders.
- Choose the Content Holder you wish to edit from the list, by selecting the Content Holder name.
- Once you have saved the Content Holder, you will be able to view the changes on your newsletter’s side panel.
Deleting a Content Holder
- Log in to your Control Centre and select the Content tab.
- Once expanded, select Content Holders.
- Choose the Content Holder you wish to delete from the list by selecting the Content Holder name.
- Select the Delete Holder button, and confirm that you would like to delete the Content Holder in the pop up prompt window.