The website is the primary way we communicate with the School community – learn how to make the most of it! We'll deepen your knowledge and provide you with new tools to tackle our content management system (CMS).
Remember, CMS users are required to participate in regular trainings to stay up-to-date with changes and keep skills (and content!) fresh. For questions about web content or to request specific trainings, email steinhardt.webteam@nyu.edu or schedule a 30 minute one-on-one appointment with a member of the Steinhardt Web Team.
Upcoming Trainings
Refresher/Introduction to the Content Management System
Brightspace Pilot
Over the past year, our team has been working to move our introductory training to an asynchronous online module as opposed to a real time training over Zoom. If you'd like to participate in the pilot email steinhardt.webteam@nyu.edu.
The training mixtape was a collaborative series of working sessions designed to master the art of content for our website and beyond. The mixtape was packed with all the chart-topping strategies from the offices of Digital Strategy and Experience, Marketing, Communications, and NYU Accessible Technology Services to make your content a smash hit.
Digital Accessibility
Digital accessibility is the practice of ensuring that all content available online can be used by our community who have a diverse range of hearing, movement, sight, or cognitive abilities. Anyone who creates and/or publishes digital content at NYU is responsible for creating content that is digitally accessible.
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Web accessibility is an essential way we make our content and community inclusive. Learn the basics of making – and keeping – your digital content accessible.
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NYU Accessible Technology Services, Digital Accessibility Program's Marshall Sunnes and Jodi Goldberg as they take us deeper into the digital accessibility essentials in order to improve the user's experience.
- Video of Accessibility Beyond the Basics session
- Accessibility Beyond the Basics presentation deck
- HeadingsMap (Chrome Extension)
- Testing Tools (including the Colour Contrast Analyser)
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Designed for CMS users and other digital content creators who have already attended basic digital accessibility training, this session will help you go further with creating inclusive content, especially with PDFs.
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User experience research repeatedly finds that PDFs are challenging to read online and time-consuming to make digitally accessible. Join the Steinhardt Web Team and NYU IT's Digital Accessibility Program to look at alternatives to creating PDFs.
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NYU Accessible Technology Services, Digital Accessibility Program's Marshall Sunnes and Jodi Goldberg discuss better, more accessible ways to create digital forms.
- Video of the Creating Digitally Accessible Forms session
- Creating Digitally Accessible Forms presentation deck
- Creating a Google account without having to change your email address (helpful for public Google forms that require a Google account or Gmail account)
- NYU IT Policy for Electronic Data and System Risk Classification
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Join NYU Accessible Technology Services, Digital Accessibility Program's Marshall Sunnes and Jodi Goldberg as they dig into how to caption videos using NYU Stream, including captioning best practices and how to export for other platforms if needed.
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Creating accessible content isn't just a matter of checklists – you can experience and test yourself with assistive technologies! In this session you'll learn the basics of using your computer's built-in screen reading software and explore how to test webpages and PDFs.
- Video of the Intro to Screen Readers session
- Intro to Screen Readers presentation deck
- VoiceOver for Mac Shortlist (recommended browser: Safari)
- NVDA for Windows Shortlist (recommended browser: Firefox)
- Learn VoiceOver gestures on iPhone
Writing Web Copy
Website visitors tend to have a shorter attention span than average when it comes to reading, typically only spending enough time on a page to read around 400 words. The Steinhardt Web Team provides a variety of trainings to help generate and revise written content to make sure those words count!
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Learn the basics of good web writing, including how web copy differs from other writing, what readers expect when they visit pages, and how to write content that engages and excites. Valuable for all web writers, even those who don't use the CMS!
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Get tips on how to make the most of our unique CMS, including best practices for page titles and teasers and guidelines for components.
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Having a hard time fitting your copy into teasers and brief components? We'll talk about how to approach super-short text to make the most of your pages.
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Learn how to identify your old pages, implement newer features that can improve how your content flows, and check hidden spots for out-of-date information.
- Video of the Refresh Your Content! session
- Refresh Your Content! presentation deck
- Refresh Your Page Tip Sheet
- SEO Page Title Dashboard (helpful for reviewing multiple page titles at once)
Building Pages
The Steinhardt CMS offers a large variety of content and page types. These trainings help CMS users and content creators to develop an understanding of how to use the existing content tools to best share information. All CMS users are required to take the introductory course prior to receiving system access.
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An overview of our content management system and learn how you can make the most of our website.
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Go through the steps of creating a page, from the idea to execution to approval. Appropriate for all CMS users!
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Designed for CMS users who create or edit news stories and events, this session will walk through best practices and workflow for adding these content types to the website.
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Looking to take your event pages to the next level? Come learn tips and tricks for creating event pages that will engage and inform your prospective attendees.
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Get tips on how to make the most of the components available in our CMS, including best practices for combining components and using images and background colors.
Search and Web Metrics
When planning and creating web content, it's important to be able to judge effectiveness and respond accordingly. The Steinhardt Web Team provides trainings on how to analyze web metrics and use those metrics to inform the development of a content strategy.
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Learn how to use Google Analytics to understand how your audience is engaging with your web content so you can create the best user experience possible.
Additional Resources
Writing for the Web
Creating a website? Writing online content? Please follow these best practices for writing for the web.
Editorial Style Guide
Having an editorial style guide helps us speak in a consistent, unified voice and provides a better experience for our readers and visitors.