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- Across the top of the site you'll see (from left to right)
- Admin menu button
- BYU logo (links to dashboard)
- Search
- Site name (if you have access to multiple sites
- Link button to launch the live site (or preview site if the site is not live)
- Your avatar
- Your Net ID
- The first panel in the dashboard is the Quick Start. You use that for quickly creating new content. It can be edited to include just the content types you regularly use. Default options are
- Article - a news story or blog entry
- Attachment - a linked document, such as PDF or Word
- Author - associated with an article
- Employee - includes image, contact info, and bio for a person (often used as an entry in a directory page)
- Event - includes event information for inclusion in a calendar
- Gallery - a group of images
- Homepage - specific content type for home pages
- Package - (not used in BYU Brightspot implementation)
- Page - a page in your website
- Playlist - a list of videos or audio files
- Podcast - main page for a podcast series
- Podcast Episode - a single podcast episode
- Press Release - for interacting with outside news media
- Section - the landing page for a section of your website
- Site Search - a search results page
- Tag - a way of tagging articles
- Video - a video object in Brightspot (can be direct upload or YouTube link)
- Recent Activity panel shows content that has recently been saved. Dropdown options at the top of the panel can be used for filtering.
- Upload allows you to upload images or attachments by drag and drop or file select. You can add multiples at a time.
- Scheduled Events shows items you have scheduled to publish in the future.
- Unpublished Drafts shows works in progress. These do not appear in Recent Activity by default.
- Workstreams are groups of items that should be edited. This feature allows you to easily track your progress on the batch and work with other editors to edit the items in the list.
