creating classroom websites with google sites

MTEA Presents:Creating a Classroom Website Using Google

Sites

Meredith Martinmmartin@mantuaschools.com

In your email, click on SITES at the top left.

Click CREATE to begin creating your website.

Give your site a name, and adjust your URL if needed.

Choose a theme for your site. You can always change it later!

Give your site a description, and make it public.

In the top right corner are your editing buttons: Create Page, Edit Page, and More Actions.

EDIT PAGE

CREATE NEW PAGE

MORE ACTIONS

Clicking on Edit Page gives you a word processor-like interface to edit it.

To add a link to a website, highlight text, click LINK, and then select WEB ADDRESS and enter the page URL.

URL

LINK

Use this to link to an external

website

Use this to link to another page in

your site.

Add an image to your page by going to INSERT, IMAGE and then either uploading or linking to an image.

Under MORE ACTIONS, PAGE SETTINGS, you can select your preferences for comments, attachments, and more.

NOTE: you will probably want to turn OFF comments and attachments.

Click on NEW PAGE to create another page for your site!

From the main page of your site, click on MORE ACTIONS, and then MANAGE SITE to get to the more detailed site options. Here you can make changes to your site details, theme, colors, and more.

Managing Your Site

Click on GENERAL under Site Settings to change basic settings such as name and description.

SHARING & PERMISSIONS lets you add authors to your site - you can create a joint site with your partner!

PAGE LEVEL PERMISSIONS can be found in the top right corner of SHARING AND PERMISSIONS.

NOTE: This is an advanced feature, but can be very useful. Use this to give students permission to edit specific pages! Please see me if you want instruction on how to use this.

SITE LAYOUT lets you change the way your site is arranged.

COLORS AND FONTS lets you customize your theme.

THEMES lets you choose a different theme without affecting your content.

To find your website address, go to your home page and the address is in the bar at the top of your browser.

Copy this and email it to Jonathan at jbaldwin@mantuaschools.com so he can link your name in the teacher directory to your site!

Now go out there and make an awesome website!