For Departments: academé
academé
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academé is built on a CMS framework that enables academic departments to become centers of communication; reaching faculty, students, staff, alumni, and donors with up-to-date content, data-sharing capabilities, and the latest news, events and announcements.
myYellow: for individual professor websites/CMS.
What You Get
| News Manager | Creates a listing of news items that can be filtered based on terms selected when the story is posted. Terms available are:
In addition small lists are available of the most recent items of news to place throughput your site filtered on the above categories. The lists link to the full news story. News items have an easy to use form and multiple images can be attached to the news item. The images are resized automatically to a size that is appropriate for the list or the node that displays them. |
| Event Manager | Event Manager provides a listing of events that can be filtered based on terms selected when the event is posted. Events are automatically archived after the event date. The terms available are listed below.
Events can also be filtered and displayed by audience. The audience is based on user roles. Academe has the following roles.
In addition small lists are available depending on either terms or audience to place throughout your site. The list items link to the event details. Events have an easy to use form and multiple images can be attached to the event. Images are resized automatically to a size that is appropriate for the list or node that displays the event. Events can be hidden or shown based on the users role in academé. |
| Comment | Comments can be enabled for any list item in academe'. Commenting on text, news items, or events can be configured on for specified roles or for all users to read. Comments are usually placed beneath the node information on the node page. |
| User Profiles | After a user has been added to academé they will receive a dedicated node that can be updated either by the user or by administrative personnel. If you choose to give the user the ability to update ones own profile the update form will appear in their user profile. A users profile is made available to them immediately upon login. This will ease users into updating their own profile pages by presenting it to them repeatedly. |
| Upload | All users will be able to upload and make available documents via their user profiles. In addition all other list types in academe' will accommodate file uploads. A link will be presented to allow users to retrieve the documents. PDFs, Word Documents, Open Office Documents, Pictures and many other formats are supported. |
| JSCalendar | All date inputs in academé use a popup calendar to make it simple for the user to choose a date. |
| Contact Forms | Contact forms are provided for all active users registered in academé. Users email address is never made available to the public or malicious attackers. Captcha is also available, however it is not by default turned on because of the success academé has had in masking email addresses from malicious users. Turning Captcha on is entirely up to your department and has no extra charge associated. Site wide contact forms are also available. |
| Breadcrumbs | A breadcrumb trail is available on every page of academé excepting the splash page. A link home is also provided in the header or header region depending on the theme/template. |
| Google Analytics | Google Analytics is installed on all academé sites. See Google analytics to find out more about this powerful tool for tracking visitors to your website. If support is purchased, a periodic review of your analytics with changes to blocks or menus is included based on data gathered with Google Analytics. |
| WYSIWYG data entry | IMCE and TinyIMCE is used throughout academé to make content entering simple. Images can be uploaded, paragraphs can be formatted, lists can be dropped in and tables can be entered without the use of third party software. You can see what your content will look like before it is published to your site. Editing is as simple as finding the content and clicking the edit tab. Quick link menus are available for adding new content to academé. |
| PathAuto | PathAuto assigns URL addresses to page that can be read without the obscure markup one sees on many sites. What this means to you and to search engines is that the URL of a page closely mirrors the pages content. This will help your departmental pages go to the top of searches for search terms referenced in the page title. The page title is entirely configurable by the user. EX: you have a news article about a professor winning an award. The title of the news article is Professor Sandwich won the Hoagies award. The page will place in one of the top positions for "Professor Sandwich" and "Hoagies Award" . These results are because most Search engines place great weight in URL's. URL's read like a page title. |
| Printer Friendly Pages | Adding a printer friendly link to a node in academé is as easy as toggling this on or off. Some pages are set to printer friendly by default others will require the user inputting the content to toggle it on. |
| Comprehensive site search | Many departments must use a college specified search technique. academé sites can incorporate most of these search engines at no additional cost. For departments that do not have a school wide capability academé provides a comprehensive site search. All content is indexed for keywords. The search results list links and a short bit of text for the referenced term or terms on a dedicated site search page. |
| External Links | All links that go to a page outside of academé will be marked with a visual reminder that the users is about to leave the departments site. |
| People Spotlight | All registered users can become spotlighted users. Spotlighted people can include 'professors', 'a day in the life of a student', and 'featured alumni' just to name a few. |
Bonus Solutions - What you want
Advanced File Management
Advanced File Management provides an intuitive method of managing any type of media or generic files. Advanced File Management provides a central location to upload files (images, audio, YouTube videos, flash movies, text documents, pdfs,...), and then have the ability to display these files anywhere on your YdW site. Permissions can be set to make these files available to anyone, to specific users or just a single administrator.
Chat Rooms
Chat Rooms are a way of communicating by sending text messages to people in the same chat-room in real-time. No additional software is required. Chat Room uses AJAX to update chats without page reloads. Chat Rooms are nodes that provide access to chats and chat archives. This solution does not support pop-up windows or invitations.
Collaborative Book Author
Enable your faculty, researchers, postdocs, and graduate students to collaborate with colleagues to produce research documents, book chapters, or even entire volumes. YdW Collaborative Book Author is a wiki-esque application that provides your academic community with a space on the web to write, organize, and upload documents as they participate in the collaborative research process.
Community Forums
Build community and enhance existing personal and professional relationships within your department or institution. YdW Community Forums provide a space on your website where individual members of your academic community may pose questions, engage others in discussion, or organize events. Your Community Forums may be public, private, or both and are seamlessly woven into the fabric of your YdW installation.
Custom Flash Header
Custom Flash Headers will help attract new students, keep current students coming back, and invite potential funders to visit your YdW site. You'll work directly with a Yellow dotWorks designer to conceive a header/splash page that reflects the scholarly interests and aesthetic preferences of your academic community.
Dedicated Nodes Package
Dedicated Nodes provide an input form for information on your site. They allow for easy update of content areas. A dedicated node creates a page and can also be used in combination with other dedicated nodes to create splash pages, landing pages, or headers or footers for list pages. They provide an area of the site to display specific information pre-formatted. Dedicated nodes can be used in more than one area of the site providing one form to update various locations on your site.
The dedicated node package provides an additional 10 dedicated nodes and seamless integration with your site.
eCommunity Notices
Keep your academic community in the loop with YdW eCommunity Notices. Alumni, graduate students, faculty, staff, and others can sign up to be notified by email when news items or events are posted to your website. Administrative staff may also use YdW eCommunity Notices to automatically inform committees of upcoming meetings and important dates.
Emergency Restore
All YdW installations are copied at the time of install and this copy is kept on a secure server at YdW World Headquarters in case you need to restore the code base or the template in the future. Emergency Restore will email a backup of uploaded files and the database backup to YdW daily, weekly or monthly depending on your preference and can be used to fully restore your YdW installation in case of catastrophe.
Event Organizer
Event Organizer is used to efficiently schedule volunteers or participants for events, meetings, and other activities that are sponsored or organized by your department or institution. An intuitive web-based interface guides you through the event creation process, and members of your academic community may sign up or add themselves to the schedule in only 3 clicks right on your YdW website.
LDAP Integration
LDAP Integration will allow your users to login to your department using their established university username and password. It can also pre-populate some fields in their user profile with information in the LDAP database as well as allow your users to update selected information in the LDAP database.
Multi-Author Blog
Multi-Author Blogs provide members of your academic community with a space on your website to publish short articles based on their research, teaching, or other personal interests. Multi-Author Blogs are seamlessly woven into the fabric of your YdW website/CMS. Your site administrator may provide individuals with blogging privileges, or assign blogging privileges to entire groups within your academic community (e.g., faculty blogs).
Multimedia Kit
Multimedia Kit provides an easy-to-use, web-based tool to upload media files (images, audio, YouTube videos, flash movies, text documents, pdfs,...), to photo galleries, video galleries, flash presentations, integrated third party presentations and much more. Media may be made available to the public, kept private or made available to only certain members of your community.
News and Event Aggregator
News and Event Aggregator can be used to host news items and upcoming events from any source on the web that provides an RSS feed. Your news and events content is seamlessly integrated into your YdW website/CMS in various locations throughout your website. Possible configurations include a U.S. News sidebar block, an Upcoming Professional Meetings page, a World News sidebar block, etc.
Publication Manager
Publication Manager will help you to organize and host publications and research documents on your YdW website/CMS. Increase the visibility of your academic community by providing site visitors with access to this scholarly material.
SSL
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) uses a cryptographic system that uses two keys to encrypt data − a public key known to everyone and a private or secret key known only to the recipient of the message. Many Web sites use this protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers. By convention, URLs that require an SSL connection start with https: instead of http: If confidential documents are going to be uploaded or downloaded via your website/CMS, SSL will be a vital component of your security. All pages or a subset of pages can be protected via SSL.
This Bonus Solution requires additional third party software purchase by end user (not provided by YdW).
Survey and Form Creator
Survey and Form Creator enables members of your academic community to create web-based surveys and forms for research projects, class projects, events, etc. Data collected by your surveys and forms can be downloaded as .csv documents for use in statistical programs such as SPSS and SAS or spreadsheet programs such as Excel.
Virtual Notepads
Virtual Notepads provide each member of your academic community with a secure space to upload private files and compose notes, documents, lists, etc. These data are stored in your YdW database and are accessible from any computer with an Internet connection - especially useful for members of your academic community who travel extensively.
