Required Prerequisite: Contributor Stewardship Course found at https://go.rowan.edu/stewardship.
Welcome to the Cascade Beginner Self-Paced Course. This course is meant for users at Rowan University who will be responsible for keeping Rowan's websites up to date. Rowan hosts websites using a content management system called Cascade CMS. Cascade allows non-technical users to quickly become content contributors and build web content with zero code. The self-paced course is interactive, and you will learn how to use Cascade alongside the video.
You must already have access to Cascade CMS to take this course. Please visit https://cascade.rowan.edu/login.act to log into Cascade. Your username and password are your current lowercase Rowan NetID (case sensitive). If you cannot access Cascade, please get in touch with your site's content ambassador. The content ambassador must submit an access request to Web Services for you at https://go.rowan.edu/webrequest. Please visit go.rowan.edu/contentambassadors for a complete list of ambassadors. You must view the recorded video in the course from their computer to work along with the training.
Topics to be covered:
- How Cascade works
- How to navigate inside your content
- How the site navigation is built
- Pages and how to edit and build them
- Adding other content
- Using the built-in text editor
Course Outline:
- Basic Skills Quiz
- Overview
- How Cascade works (editing, sharing, publishing)
- Finding your content
- Basics in Cascade
- Names vs Titles
- Navigating while editing
- How index pages work with navigation
- Quick look at navigation
- Page “content types”
- What they are
- How to edit and rearrange them
- Adding content and how to create a page from scratch
- Adding banners and images
- Adding content types
- WYSIWYG tutorial
- Text editing
- Adding images
Duration: Approximately 2 to 2.5 hrs
Prerequisites: Since this course is most useful if you can try things out as you go, you should already have Cascade access before you begin.
Note: This class is geared for content contributors using the Rowan template. Training for Rowan-Virtua SOM web editors is offered through a different venue.