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Step 1: Upload images in the appropriate sizes to the appropriate folder under images/students.

(image sizes are: 170×190 for senior advisors and 200×264 for tour guides)

Step 2: Edit the page by clicking the “edit” tab.

Step 3: To add a new student, click the green “+” symbol under the “students” section.  This will add a new input form for a new student directly below.

Step 4: Add the Student’s Name
Step 5: Add the Student’s email address
Step 6: Choose a PDF to link to (pdfs should be uploaded to “connect/pdfs”)
Step 7: Choose a picture (size 170×190 for senior advisors; 200×264 for tour guides)

Repeat steps 3 thru 7 for each additional student.

Step 8: To delete a student, click the red “-” symbol in the box with that student’s information in it.

Step 9: Use the dark blue “^” symbols to edit the order in which each student appears.

Step 19: Click “Submit”

ITS is working on resolving a problem this morning that appears to be affecting users who use Mac Mail.  Other mail clients may also be affected including Gmail for users who use Gmail to connect to Wesleyan Exchange.  We hope to have resolved soon.

On Saturday, March 12 between 7:30 and 11:30 AM ITS will be performing system maintenance.  The following is an approximate schedule as different systems will be impacted at different times.

Wesfiles
Wesfiles will be offline and unavailable beginning at 8:30 until 11 am.

Philo Streaming Services
Philo will be offline between 7:30 and 8:30 am

Network disruption
The following locations will lose connectivity between 7:30 and 8:30 am.  Each location should not be offline more than 15 minutes.  The interruption will occur sometime within this hour.

Exley
ITS-service Center
Physical Plant2 ( Pine Street)
159 High St
163 High St
169 High St
190 High St
Butterfields
Upward Bound
Religion
Science library
Public Safety
Hall-Atwater
Shanklin
Hall-Atwater-Exley Tunnel
Eclectic
Bayit
Schoenberg Dance studio (Pine St.)
Wasch Center
Weswings
Powerplant
Powergrid
202 Washington St.
230 Washington St.
256 Washington St.

As a reminder, we will post relevant messages on Twitter and Facebook.

It may be useful for your site to have a separate page which lists relevant faculty members. This tutorial will teach you how to create and set up such a page.

• To have a faculty page, you must first create a page with content type professionalinfo-individual. If this content type is unavailable, please talk to your site admin or ITS. Make sure to “Include when indexing” to allow the page to show up in the sidebar.
• Once the page is created, you can begin adding faculty members.
  • If you wish to separate the faculty members into distinct subgroups, i.e. Professors and Visiting Professors, click the green “+” button directly below “Group” (see ‘a’ on image below). The “Name” field provides the heading for this subgroup of faculty.
  • In the field “User Name”, insert the username of the faculty member that you wish to add to the list. This will be their email username.
  • If you wish to add more faculty to the list, use the green “+” button (b).
  • If you wish to delete a faculty member or an empty field, use the red “-“ button (c).
  • If you wish to rearrange the order the members appear in, use the up/down arrow buttons (d)

On Saturday morning, January 16, ITS will perform non-disruptive maintenance on the main switch infrastructure in the data center beginning at 7:00 am.  We have done this work successfully in the past and do not anticipate a problem.  We will notify the community in the event of an unexpected issue preferably by email as well as Facebook and Twitter.

During the week of Jan 11 in the early morning hours, ITS will be doing preventive switch maintenance.  This is to update software on our switches in accordance with manufacturer recommendation to prevent a possible malfunction that could disrupt services.

Wired and wireless network connectivity will be disrupted in segments of buildings for a period of 15 minutes or less between 4 and 4:30 AM.  We suggest that you save any work before leaving for the day.

The schedule for this maintenance is as follows:

Monday, Jan 11:

Foss 1-10
Fauver Upper and Lower
Astronomy

Wed, Jan 13:

Russell House
Fisk
COE
Ctr for the Humanities
285-287 High
High Rise/Low Rise
HR
300,318,330 High
Power Plant
Downey House
285 Court
DKE
PsiU

Theater
Davison Health Center
College of East Asian Studies
Cinema Archives
Anthropology
Music Studios
Malcolm X
Davidson Art Center
Admission
CFALab
Art Studios North and South
110 and 164 Mt Vernon
Zilkha
World Music Hall
Usdan
Fayerweather
Theater
41 Wyllys
74 Wyllys
Crowell

Thurs, Jan 14:

North and South College
Judd
Olin
Allbritton
PAC
Chapel
200 Church
Center for the Americas
President’s House
Clark
Alpha Delta

Freeman
14 Warren
20 Fountain/231 Pine
19 and 25 Fountain
Cady
160 Cross St.

The Wesleyan Financial System Upgrade (WFS) will begin at noon on Thursday, January 7^th and be complete by 8 AM Monday, January 11th.  WFS will be unavailable during the upgrade.

IT resolved a major network issue that began in the early morning hours.  The disruption was such that all network traffic was not flowing.  This affected all internal and external connections to and from Wesleyan.  IT staff were on site early working on the issue.  All services were restored at approximately 9:15 AM.

When these things happen, it can be difficult to communicate with the Wesleyan community, particularly when email is not available.  We post to Twitter and Facebook.  We use these social media tools because they are readily available over cellular data and not just through the network, which is vital for communication during a network or power outage on campus. For those who are not Twitter users, you do not need to have a Twitter account or app to see messages posted regarding outages.  The Twitter link below will go directly to the messages posted.  We will be exploring telephone notification options as well.

https://www.facebook.com/WesleyanITS/

https://twitter.com/wesleyanITS

On Monday, December 28, between 7:30 and 8:30 am, ITS will be upgrading software on the wireless access points campus-wide.  This will result in the devices needing to restart which will take no more than 5 minutes per access point. Please note this is NOT a downtime window as groups of access points restart in succession.  At most there is the potential for a 5 minute interruption or degradation of wireless signal during this time period for those connected to wireless on campus.

Step 1 – Upload a photo:

1. Navigate to the folder called “/alumni-items” and find the appropriate sub-folder based on the alum’s last name.
2. Each of these alphabetically-named folders has an “/images” folder nested inside of it. If you have a photo of the alum to upload, upload it to this folder.  (new > image in blue top navigation bar).  The photo must be cropped to 75 pixels wide x 100 pixels tall.   The naming convention is “LastName-FirstName.jpg”

Step 2: Create A New Page

1. Create a new page inside “/alumni-items”.  File this page away under appropriate alphabetical sub-folder, depending on the alum’s last name.
2. Under the “system” tab,  select the Content Type “components/alumni-item”
3. Choose the photo you uploaded in Step 1, or select an already-uploaded photo from the /images subfolder under the alphabetical subfolder you’re currently working in.
4. If there is no photo, be sure to check the “Display on Extended List Only?” checkbox.  This way the alum will only show up on the “Extended Alumni” page.
5. Select a category where the alum’s name will be displayed.
6. Fill out the person’s last name, first name, two-digit graduation year, and biographical information.
7. Click “submit” to save.