New Faculty Series: How to request and manage your Engineering Faculty Page and Research Lab websites

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09/21/2016 Added

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College of Engineering (CoE) Web Specialist Matt Honke discusses the process to request, build and maintain your CoE faculty page and Research Lab websites

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[00:00:00.693]Prosterity and everybody else will be able to
[00:00:02.857]watch it so.
[00:00:04.278]I see you started to record.
[00:00:05.595]Thank you, Norm
[00:00:07.771]and thank you Matt.
[00:00:08.765]If everybody doesn't know,
[00:00:09.912]this is Matt Honke.
[00:00:10.920]He's our web specialist in the College of Engineering
[00:00:12.962]and he has developed a lot of tools
[00:00:15.780]to help you all with your web page kick-off to
[00:00:21.387]because that's one of the best ways I think
[00:00:23.096]to get
[00:00:25.711]is to have a really good web page so
[00:00:27.679]Matt thank you for joining us today.
[00:00:30.683]Yeah thank you
[00:00:31.951]really for the invite, excuse me.
[00:00:34.102]My voice, I was doing a little yelling at
[00:00:35.887]the football game on Saturday so
[00:00:37.182]my voice is, I'm starting to get it back.
[00:00:40.983]Actually this will be great to record
[00:00:42.330]because I can post a link in this well as well
[00:00:44.696]on our web, we have a web toolbox
[00:00:47.850]that has a bunch of links to helpful things
[00:00:50.173]and this will be nice to get this out there.
[00:00:52.715]I'm seeing some familiar faces so
[00:00:55.837]I know some of you we've already built lab sites for
[00:00:59.007]and obviously I think for the start here,
[00:01:02.207]we'll get in to lab sites after I start with
[00:01:04.366]faculty sites here
[00:01:05.371]but when you start here,
[00:01:08.120]I create a faculty page for you
[00:01:10.267]the second I know that you're here
[00:01:11.877]so it gets created a faculty page
[00:01:14.215]and everyone has access to their own so
[00:01:19.516]let's go to
[00:01:23.581]let's go to one and we'll
[00:01:27.559]go to Vitaly since I see you here.
[00:01:30.104]All right and so has everyone had a chance,
[00:01:32.903]are there people that haven't had a chance
[00:01:34.296]to kind of go on to their own faculty page,
[00:01:35.805]maybe click at it,
[00:01:37.100]kind of get in there and start making updates?
[00:01:41.502]I'll take that as,
[00:01:42.603]I'll take that as at least you're aware of them.
[00:01:44.503]Some of it's in this room haven't even heard of them
[00:01:45.870]they said so, so yeah.
[00:01:49.009]It would be good to, yeah.
[00:01:51.310]Very good.
[00:01:52.330]All right well then at the very least,
[00:01:55.095]it, you should definitely have a page
[00:01:57.560]so if you go to your respective department site,
[00:02:00.936]so in the College of Engineering.
[00:02:02.189]If you go to the College of Engineering home
[00:02:04.415]and then under Academic programs,
[00:02:06.456]if you go to your department home page
[00:02:08.600]and then go to your faculty staff
[00:02:10.675]and if you're not listed,
[00:02:11.960]that's a problem.
[00:02:12.968]You should be
[00:02:13.959]and I should have already created that for you,
[00:02:15.544]even if there's,
[00:02:17.021]even if it's a blank page basically.
[00:02:18.949]It should have your image
[00:02:20.443]and your basic contact information.
[00:02:23.224]Now when you would get there,
[00:02:24.829]when you get on to your page,
[00:02:27.210]right up here
[00:02:28.202]it will say My Login UNL
[00:02:31.320]and you would click on that
[00:02:32.696]and that's where you would put in your UNL username
[00:02:35.576]and password so for me it's mhonke10.
[00:02:38.453]Most of you it's gonna be whatever first initial,
[00:02:40.516]last name and then some number after that.
[00:02:43.538]When you are logged in,
[00:02:45.064]up here, in fact I'm gonna log in as Vitaly.
[00:02:48.775]This is something I can do.
[00:02:59.592]So right now I am seeing exactly what he would be seeing
[00:03:02.508]on his page,
[00:03:04.063]which is, you'd have an edit and a view button up here.
[00:03:07.078]You see a couple things up there
[00:03:08.923]but basically if you go here
[00:03:10.635]and edit, click on that,
[00:03:14.264]and I have some instructions kind of up here
[00:03:16.339]but basically it's a form page running the back end of it
[00:03:20.598]and so,
[00:03:24.721]so we have his name and if you were gonna put in
[00:03:27.499]certifications and everything kind of has a place
[00:03:30.308]where it ends up being,
[00:03:31.485]where content in here gets placed
[00:03:33.441]so if you put like PhD at the end of this,
[00:03:35.946]it will show up at the end of your name
[00:03:38.694]on top of your, on top of the home page
[00:03:41.067]but it won't show up on like the whole department page
[00:03:43.908]where it's pulling in like you know, 50 people
[00:03:46.200]so there's certain things in certain areas
[00:03:48.007]where things are getting pulled in
[00:03:49.673]how we've designed the site for engineering purposes
[00:03:54.918]but the sort name puts you in the right order
[00:03:58.113]when it starts,
[00:03:59.197]when you're listed with 50 other people.
[00:04:01.560]You're gonna update your profile photo.
[00:04:03.436]You have access to go in here
[00:04:05.249]and actually do that as well.
[00:04:06.651]With everything that you're able to do,
[00:04:08.728]a lot of times there's a lot,
[00:04:10.603]there'll be some notes below it
[00:04:11.711]so if you were gonna go in
[00:04:13.251]and update your own image,
[00:04:14.441]you're more than welcome to do that.
[00:04:15.685]We give like ideal minimum size is 450 by 600 pixels
[00:04:21.377]so if you kind of have some kind of photo
[00:04:22.993]editing software,
[00:04:24.040]if you were gonna update it,
[00:04:25.456]it would look best if you did some of the photo editing
[00:04:28.080]to it.
[00:04:29.075]These are all things that I'm here to help out with
[00:04:30.721]as well.
[00:04:31.722]You are always welcome to send me stuff,
[00:04:32.872]ask questions,
[00:04:33.867]but I want to give as much access to you guys
[00:04:35.527]as I possibly can.
[00:04:36.918]One thing with an image,
[00:04:39.265]you'll notice that we have Vitaly's name in here,
[00:04:43.111]just from a standards
[00:04:45.947]and accessibility UNL,
[00:04:47.780]all images have to have a,
[00:04:50.525]what's called alt text.
[00:04:52.024]Alt text is what people that would have,
[00:04:54.397]if you would be visually impaired,
[00:04:56.718]alt text is what reads the image to the user.
[00:05:01.784]So that user's not going to be able to see a photo
[00:05:04.971]of Vitaly but that person's gonna have
[00:05:07.516]a reader that says this is a photo of Vitaly essentially.
[00:05:12.119]Matt can you zoom in on the internet window?
[00:05:16.103]Like can you,
[00:05:17.704]'cause it's a little hard to see the,
[00:05:19.929]yeah thank you.
[00:05:20.925]Yes, thank you!
[00:05:22.211]There we go, got you!
[00:05:24.195]Email, phone numbers here
[00:05:28.024]and when you update the,
[00:05:29.948]okay so phone number and I get this,
[00:05:32.408]I'll get a question every once in a while,
[00:05:33.885]somebody will say hey this,
[00:05:34.896]when you start on day one,
[00:05:36.811]I'm putting your information in there that's
[00:05:39.099]coming out of the UNL directory
[00:05:41.048]and sometimes that information,
[00:05:42.646]I know in chemical I've seen this where
[00:05:45.071]like I'll add five new people
[00:05:48.080]and all them for the first month,
[00:05:50.164]the phone number is like the department phone number
[00:05:54.688]and that's what it says
[00:05:56.780]but that's what I post out there at least on day one.
[00:05:58.902]Then when we go to change it,
[00:06:00.098]we come over here,
[00:06:01.199]we change it here,
[00:06:02.189]and it updates on like five, six, seven different places.
[00:06:05.517]It'll update it on your page,
[00:06:07.060]it updates on the department page pulling it in,
[00:06:08.681]anywhere where your content's being pulled in,
[00:06:10.919]it's pulling it from that number
[00:06:12.663]so that's on our end,
[00:06:13.999]it's helpful to,
[00:06:15.038]if we have to change your phone number,
[00:06:16.351]it's nice to do it in one spot
[00:06:17.665]and not have to go in
[00:06:19.008]and this is a combination,
[00:06:23.360]this page, this is one template
[00:06:26.624]for faculty that was based off of
[00:06:28.189]when we designed this College of Engineering site
[00:06:31.077]two years ago,
[00:06:32.088]we brought together how every department
[00:06:34.501]was doing it separately before
[00:06:36.426]so you'll notice as you go down this,
[00:06:39.292]this is, I wish it wasn't a mile long
[00:06:41.024]but this is about a mile long of a form
[00:06:44.440]because I was combining all the options
[00:06:46.829]that Durham offered this thing on their faculty pages
[00:06:50.632]and BSE would do this thing on theirs
[00:06:53.127]and chemical did that.
[00:06:54.648]I kind of, it's a hodgepodge
[00:06:55.768]and I included it all
[00:06:56.837]so you may not use all these options
[00:06:59.005]but they're available to you.
[00:07:00.102]Personal links,
[00:07:01.309]I'll show these lab sites in a bit
[00:07:05.048]but we built the lab site for Vitaly.
[00:07:07.626]He puts that here,
[00:07:08.711]calls it research group site,
[00:07:10.580]puts in the URL
[00:07:12.072]and then underneath his photo,
[00:07:13.405]it just automatically puts the links there.
[00:07:15.448]It's all styled and looks the way that,
[00:07:17.717]that we want it to look.
[00:07:18.904]If you have professional memberships that you're a part of,
[00:07:21.365]you can put that in there.
[00:07:22.360]Facebook page, Twitter and LinkedIn.
[00:07:33.110]Right underneath here, by default,
[00:07:35.261]this is email and that's the email icon.
[00:07:37.537]If you have a Facebook page, if you have a Twitter page,
[00:07:40.008]a LinkedIn page,
[00:07:41.000]that will all show up there.
[00:07:42.533]In fact,
[00:07:43.910]Lily's is one that,
[00:07:49.963]so just by posting,
[00:07:51.106]just by pasting that in there
[00:07:52.460]then that starts to add that image to it
[00:07:54.348]so we keep going down,
[00:07:56.040]if you have a cv file,
[00:08:00.184]you can do that as a text file,
[00:08:01.732]a doc file, a docx or a pdf.
[00:08:04.702]The intention of the faculty page is
[00:08:08.219]you can make it look like a cv file
[00:08:11.096]but essentially the idea is not to have
[00:08:13.080]your page have,
[00:08:14.439]if you're gonna like show your last presentations,
[00:08:18.058]maybe show the last 10 to 15.
[00:08:19.631]If you're gonna show your last publications,
[00:08:21.546]maybe show the last 10 to 15.
[00:08:23.320]That's our goal.
[00:08:24.895]We don't have a specific standard
[00:08:27.160]and no one's gonna go in there
[00:08:28.427]and change your page
[00:08:29.430]but it's just a guideline we're saying
[00:08:30.690]is kind of show the last 10 to 15 there
[00:08:32.370]and then if you want everything that you've done
[00:08:34.657]to be out there,
[00:08:35.652]package it as a pdf or whatever,
[00:08:38.072]upload it here and you'll have a link that will say that.
[00:08:41.117]From a scheduling standpoint,
[00:08:44.696]this isn't, I'd like to have a better option
[00:08:47.102]at some point here
[00:08:48.170]but right now at least what we're doing is
[00:08:49.727]we had a request where somebody wanted to be able to
[00:08:52.536]post like an Excel file out there
[00:08:54.014]that was their schedule of whatever.
[00:08:57.659]We gave them that option here
[00:08:59.320]so you can just, you click browse,
[00:09:00.916]find it, upload your schedule
[00:09:02.843]and it can be a text file, doc, docx, pdf or Excel file.
[00:09:07.256]If you have a link to a digital commons site
[00:09:10.685]and I'm not as familiar as that.
[00:09:12.785]Still pretty big, are people doing that Lily
[00:09:15.261]or I'm seeing yes.
[00:09:18.072]Okay, good.
[00:09:19.195]So if you, if you have a digital commons page,
[00:09:21.059]you put the link right there
[00:09:22.430]and that will add a link to that.
[00:09:24.115]You'll notice,
[00:09:27.003]so now this starts to get kind of how the page is laid out.
[00:09:30.365]Here are the academic degrees.
[00:09:32.591]Well that starts right here
[00:09:33.629]so whatever you post in here,
[00:09:35.320]if you want to keep adding more items,
[00:09:36.844]you just keep adding them here
[00:09:38.091]and it will put them in a bulletpoint list right here
[00:09:42.134]and it also adds this heading above it.
[00:09:46.052]So you don't have to type in academic degrees,
[00:09:47.755]it does all that for you.
[00:09:49.749]As you keep going down,
[00:09:50.757]if there's courses taught,
[00:09:51.992]or you want to put your courses taught and URLs to them
[00:09:55.800]and the bullets and all that,
[00:09:56.919]those are options here.
[00:09:58.078]Again, you always have this ability to add another item.
[00:10:00.621]Video embed code,
[00:10:01.710]if you, we've done this before where if you have,
[00:10:03.983]if you want to embed something
[00:10:06.213]and I should update this actually.
[00:10:08.434]We don't really want to up,
[00:10:09.907]we don't want to embed something from YouTube
[00:10:12.007]and the reason for that is YouTube is not viewable
[00:10:15.012]like in China.
[00:10:16.576]YouTube is not viewable in a lot of K through 12 schools
[00:10:20.930]so UNL says ideally don't embed that
[00:10:24.155]into our page
[00:10:25.165]because there's going to be a lot of viewers
[00:10:26.461]that are just gonna see a blank area
[00:10:29.121]but we have an option called Media Hub,
[00:10:30.752]UNL Media Hub
[00:10:31.745]and if you have any videos,
[00:10:32.936]let me know this, if you have any videos you want
[00:10:34.707]to get posted,
[00:10:35.710]we can post it out to Media Hub
[00:10:37.117]and then we can embed that
[00:10:39.667]and some actually get,
[00:10:40.941]this is a note for me, I need to update that little,
[00:10:43.088]that little thing below that
[00:10:44.221]but we can put Media Hub pages on there
[00:10:47.787]and you can embed them
[00:10:48.929]and life is good there.
[00:10:50.363]All right, this a good area here
[00:10:52.570]that I've seen people use a lot.
[00:10:54.538]What's going on now header title
[00:10:57.272]and then what's going on.
[00:10:58.715]By here we're gonna do this.
[00:11:05.245]To make an update,
[00:11:06.450]type it in and you'll scroll all the way to the bottom.
[00:11:08.254]Like I said this is a, this form is a mile long.
[00:11:11.015]We click Save
[00:11:12.705]and the what's going on section which we just typed
[00:11:18.337]blah blah blah in goes right here.
[00:11:21.377]People have used this to announce
[00:11:23.768]that they're looking for GA's to hire.
[00:11:26.312]Whatever it is your big announcement of the day,
[00:11:28.364]this area right here is intended to be something
[00:11:30.917]that you would be, it's pretty dynamic.
[00:11:32.814]You'd be keeping this fairly up to date
[00:11:34.648]and not just having something out there sit
[00:11:36.028]for a semester
[00:11:37.040]but it's a nice spot at the top of your page
[00:11:39.102]that allows you to
[00:11:41.889]get some kind of information out there
[00:11:45.024]that you're wanting people to see.
[00:11:46.855]Let me get back down to here
[00:11:52.657]and then we you make, when you're done with it,
[00:11:55.113]you can just go ahead and delete.
[00:11:56.913]This works a lot like Microsoft Word,
[00:11:59.460]the text box editor
[00:12:01.536]and I'll be the first one admit,
[00:12:02.758]sometimes the text box editor can be a little funky
[00:12:04.913]which is actually a nice thing about this template.
[00:12:06.920]It allows you not to do too much,
[00:12:08.869]essentially it can't really screw up the page
[00:12:11.361]but I've seen other sites where
[00:12:13.070]where you can go into this area,
[00:12:15.231]do some stuff and all of a sudden it puts things
[00:12:18.114]in funky spots on the page
[00:12:20.169]so but as far as just from a peer text standpoint,
[00:12:22.628]it's just like a Word.
[00:12:24.269]Without having to get into code you can do all this stuff
[00:12:27.148]and it's, and then it says Wizzy Wig
[00:12:31.440]which is what you see is what you get.
[00:12:33.350]If you switch to html,
[00:12:34.643]you actually within here can do some html
[00:12:36.929]if that is of some interest to you.
[00:12:41.158]Let's go ahead and get rid of that.
[00:12:43.372]Personal description,
[00:12:44.760]that is what
[00:12:47.554]does this right here
[00:12:48.999]and then now we start getting to these bottom areas,
[00:12:51.312]these kind of, they're called bands
[00:12:53.501]where they're different colored backgrounds
[00:12:55.421]and full width of the screen
[00:12:57.715]but this is where you start putting in your research
[00:12:59.704]and your inventions, patents, experience,
[00:13:03.224]honors, awards, funding, recent publications,
[00:13:07.339]presentations and then everything once you get past that,
[00:13:10.328]this is area that if you're gonna make any updates,
[00:13:14.237]let me know because by being checkmarked here, here,
[00:13:17.736]that's what determines all those different pages
[00:13:20.012]that you get pulled into
[00:13:21.368]so the reason that you're showing up
[00:13:22.784]faculty page is because that thing's checked.
[00:13:27.728]If we uncheck that, all of a sudden you're not there
[00:13:29.542]so that kind of helps with all that
[00:13:32.450]and then we have different rules
[00:13:33.926]that you are in
[00:13:34.974]and if you were gonna be helping with advising,
[00:13:39.480]then if we check that,
[00:13:41.179]then all of a sudden you might be,
[00:13:43.057]you'd show up on an advising page for chemical
[00:13:47.202]so I mean it's not that,
[00:13:48.363]and here's your office number,
[00:13:49.414]where you're located there so
[00:13:51.320]basically it's filling out a form.
[00:13:53.027]I'm hoping it's as easy as that for anyone
[00:13:55.864]but if you have questions or suggestions too,
[00:13:58.530]if there's, this thing keeps making,
[00:14:01.233]we keep making updates and changes to it
[00:14:02.750]as we get feedback.
[00:14:04.120]Does anyone have any questions on the faculty page
[00:14:07.389]side of things?
[00:14:12.827]I need this for a little bit
[00:14:14.040]but if I see you there.
[00:14:16.216]Good to see you.
[00:14:18.040]Thanks for joining.
[00:14:19.160](laughs)
[00:14:20.169]Good morning Lily.
[00:14:21.160]Good morning.
[00:14:24.140]I will have to praise Matt for his work on this
[00:14:29.698]because we only had,
[00:14:31.451]I don't know.
[00:14:32.443]How long have you been with the college Matt?
[00:14:33.775]Has it been three years now?
[00:14:35.101]December of 2013.
[00:14:37.854]Okay so I was close, almost three years.
[00:14:41.418]So before Matt came,
[00:14:43.221]we did not have this ability
[00:14:45.078]and it was,
[00:14:47.817]people had just all kinds of crazy like formats
[00:14:51.366]and he's really unified the presence of the college
[00:14:54.576]and I think you've done a good job, Matt,
[00:14:56.637]of making it like,
[00:14:58.214]that we can edit it as we wish.
[00:14:59.996]You don't have to have all those sections,
[00:15:01.565]it can be a very simple section
[00:15:02.904]but at the same time you can also get all that stuff
[00:15:05.053]on there so.
[00:15:07.064]Does anybody have questions?
[00:15:08.513]Have people tried it yet?
[00:15:10.038]It's amazing, yeah.
[00:15:12.479]Fabi's doing it as we speak, awesome!
[00:15:13.917](laughter)
[00:15:16.653]Yeah that was a big issue to update a website
[00:15:20.715]is a big issue.
[00:15:21.880]I had to submit a form,
[00:15:23.222]I had to,
[00:15:24.344]so I'm kind of thrilled that we have this one.
[00:15:26.472]It's just like a yeah.
[00:15:28.667]I think it's great that we have self control in a way
[00:15:30.946]but at the same time,
[00:15:31.956]it's look nice
[00:15:33.285]so it's still within a format
[00:15:34.939]that you can still edit it
[00:15:36.512]and as Matt said,
[00:15:37.508]not that he won't help you.
[00:15:38.582]If you would prefer to just send him the content,
[00:15:40.573]I think you're willing to do that, right Matt so?
[00:15:42.656]Yep, I'm, we want it updated one or the other,
[00:15:46.776]whether you do it or I do it,
[00:15:47.911]however it works best
[00:15:49.240]but I like giving access to people
[00:15:51.707]to be able to do their own stuff
[00:15:53.416]as much as possible.
[00:15:56.667]So along those lines,
[00:15:58.016]the other side of sites that are getting created now
[00:16:01.033]are lab sites
[00:16:02.515]and those are a little different.
[00:16:04.809]So the faculty page,
[00:16:06.456]do you ever hear me say,
[00:16:07.469]is this is your faculty page or lab site.
[00:16:08.874]The faculty page is one page,
[00:16:10.913]that's all it is.
[00:16:12.000]You have to access to that one
[00:16:13.193]and that's what we're just looking at.
[00:16:15.076]Now a lab site
[00:16:16.256]that is where we can create a completely separate site here
[00:16:19.212]and well here let's go to,
[00:16:22.446]we'll look at Vitaly's there
[00:16:26.971]and it's up here it can say Alexandrov Research Group.
[00:16:32.113]You can have your own links up here
[00:16:33.869]or I have other examples of where people have the
[00:16:36.158]College of Engineering links up here
[00:16:38.045]and then they have their own little side navigation
[00:16:39.743]on the side here.
[00:16:41.144]I mean we can do anything essentially that we want
[00:16:44.124]with this site
[00:16:45.250]but it's called a group site
[00:16:47.104]which means that I can add members to the group.
[00:16:49.495]You have a couple of GA's that are as part of
[00:16:52.056]your research group,
[00:16:53.066]we can give them access,
[00:16:54.059]as long as they're part of the,
[00:16:55.448]as long as they're part of the UNL directory,
[00:16:59.071]as long as I can find them,
[00:17:00.063]they're gonna, we can give them access.
[00:17:02.685]Essentially this, at this point,
[00:17:06.118]it's its own web site, almost no different
[00:17:07.859]than what the College of Engineering site is.
[00:17:09.386]You live within the same rules and regulations
[00:17:11.960]that UNL has,
[00:17:13.086]which basically means anything from this red bar
[00:17:15.544]down to this gray area,
[00:17:18.953]this is like an open canvas.
[00:17:21.885]We can kind of do what we want.
[00:17:23.160]We're limited below, once you get below that.
[00:17:25.606]For instance, like in this gray area,
[00:17:27.544]this is a contact area so
[00:17:29.117]we have all Vitaly's contact info right here.
[00:17:31.916]This is social media.
[00:17:34.462]If you wanted these to be your social media links,
[00:17:36.985]we could swap those in this case
[00:17:39.677]or by default here's the college's.
[00:17:42.332]We can change this name right here
[00:17:45.944]and like I said, we can change the actual links here
[00:17:50.133]and if we had,
[00:17:51.144]if we created a page that fell under research,
[00:17:55.358]if you scrolled over research,
[00:17:56.984]a dropdown would come up
[00:17:58.200]and you can have pages under a dropdown.
[00:18:00.795]In this case here,
[00:18:03.840]he's using a,
[00:18:04.831]we have a slideshow editor here
[00:18:07.999]and even this page, to update this,
[00:18:11.859]again you can go in,
[00:18:13.647]this is now a different type of page
[00:18:15.782]so it's gonna look a little different here,
[00:18:17.393]there's a body content editor here
[00:18:19.574]and if you want to just create an entire page
[00:18:21.260]that goes in between the red bar
[00:18:23.101]and the gray bar,
[00:18:25.280]you can just start typing html in here
[00:18:27.574]or do whatever you want
[00:18:28.760]and you have access to the page
[00:18:29.875]or there are tools
[00:18:31.069]and so like we have called a promo image with a link,
[00:18:35.000]that's this big image along the top
[00:18:37.128]and Vitaly's updated, he uploads an image,
[00:18:40.708]you put your alt text in there saying what the image is,
[00:18:43.611]if you put a title over it like this,
[00:18:46.997]the title then
[00:18:48.504]ends up being this text right here so
[00:18:53.816]it's a nice little tool
[00:18:54.982]and then as you keep adding,
[00:18:56.258]if he wants to add a more,
[00:18:57.626]one, two or three more,
[00:18:58.632]just add that many more to the slideshow
[00:19:00.664]and there's some other options that we have
[00:19:02.587]as you get into those kind of pages
[00:19:05.559]where you have a little more, little more freedom
[00:19:07.704]and so far, like Vitaly how's it work for you?
[00:19:14.902]Have you had any questions or anything?
[00:19:18.059]Working good?
[00:19:19.867]I used this one as another example.
[00:19:23.569]Bobby has a question here in Omaha.
[00:19:25.597]So that page you have a request to have it
[00:19:28.046]or it's kind of by default,
[00:19:29.277]it kind of stems from the faculty page
[00:19:32.048]or this is different?
[00:19:33.054](indistinct talking)
[00:19:37.852]Something we have access to it
[00:19:39.010]or we have to?
[00:19:40.801]It's just something I have to set up
[00:19:43.304]which is nice
[00:19:44.865]because you also have an option,
[00:19:46.830]you can create,
[00:19:49.142]you don't have to go through the engineering site
[00:19:50.882]to do this.
[00:19:51.879]You can also go and request your own separate one
[00:19:53.710]but we advise, we suggest you go through engineering
[00:19:56.760]if possible
[00:19:57.764]because then it's part of our system and everything,
[00:19:59.862]plus if you go this route,
[00:20:01.988]I can set it up for you in two seconds.
[00:20:04.674]It's just sitting down there,
[00:20:05.872]create new group,
[00:20:06.877]who you want in it.
[00:20:07.931]I've been doing this for the last month now
[00:20:10.026]with new faculty coming in.
[00:20:11.771]It can take five seconds to just create it.
[00:20:14.838]The things I need to know right off the top of the bat
[00:20:17.138]is what is it called?
[00:20:18.753]Do we just want to call it last name research group
[00:20:21.751]or do you have kind of,
[00:20:23.031]you know an acronym or we've got all kinds of,
[00:20:25.862]there's a mad man one we have
[00:20:27.530]and the one of them I show is QUISP
[00:20:30.302]and QUISP is an acronym for what it is
[00:20:33.925]but it's Dr. Turner's lab
[00:20:37.564]and it shows an example of that side.
[00:20:41.694]Do we just send you an email Matt?
[00:20:44.921]That's the question from Omaha.
[00:20:47.183]Yep, shoot me an email
[00:20:48.304]and we'll get started on something for you.
[00:20:51.282]And one other thing about this QUISP I use it as
[00:20:55.869]another piece is that you can do what's called
[00:21:00.051]an alias
[00:21:01.308]and if you wanted to market your site,
[00:21:03.366]he is QUISP.UNL.edu.
[00:21:07.410]Now when you go to that,
[00:21:08.471]then all of a sudden it redirects
[00:21:09.751]and I'm gonna,
[00:21:11.414]that didn't do it,
[00:21:14.080]that doesn't show this well.
[00:21:16.060]It redirects right up here to engineering.unl/quisp
[00:21:20.677]but he can market it by it being QUISP.UNL.edu
[00:21:24.836]and so that's just creating an alias.
[00:21:26.221]As long as your alias isn't something
[00:21:28.204]that's being used by someone else
[00:21:29.765]within the university today,
[00:21:31.321]usually we'll approve them so
[00:21:33.704]that's an option as well if you're trying to kind of
[00:21:37.148]promote that lab, that group.
[00:21:44.055]Like I said,
[00:21:44.888]I mean if you have any questions,
[00:21:46.799]I'm happy to help in any way.
[00:21:48.883]Really the lab sites,
[00:21:50.958]it's your site.
[00:21:52.558]You can do as much within there as you can,
[00:21:55.388]the only thing that it has,
[00:21:58.212]the only thing it has to do the end of the day
[00:22:00.572]in my opinion
[00:22:01.572]is it just has to meet UNL standards, requirements
[00:22:04.439]and a lot of that the template already kind of takes care of
[00:22:06.734]but we get these audits that are done like once a month
[00:22:10.112]and so if there was something on the page
[00:22:11.577]that didn't meet something audit-wise,
[00:22:14.516]I'd either help you out,
[00:22:16.042]we'd get it fixed or it's not a huge deal
[00:22:18.428]but it's just something
[00:22:21.618]an accessibility standpoint
[00:22:22.732]so if you had images that didn't have
[00:22:24.316]the alt text on them,
[00:22:25.826]if there was some code that made the page
[00:22:27.922]not be mobile-friendly
[00:22:30.332]and that's where this,
[00:22:31.924]the UNL template's nice.
[00:22:33.600]If you go to the site on your phone,
[00:22:35.241]it should,
[00:22:36.823]every page should be designed
[00:22:40.749]with mobile people first.
[00:22:43.303]With people on phones and Tablets.
[00:22:45.463]It should work for them first
[00:22:46.989]and move out from there to work for all devices.
[00:22:52.362]I think the last app we saw for UNL wide
[00:22:54.955]was about 35 percent of our users
[00:22:57.085]at the beginning of this year,
[00:22:59.042]at the beginning of this semester were
[00:23:01.036]either on a phone or Tablet
[00:23:03.222]and that is growing fast
[00:23:05.046]and we're still one of the only universities
[00:23:11.201]that have a set up the way that we have it
[00:23:14.085]where all of the colleges within it
[00:23:15.971]have the same design, same template
[00:23:18.257]and the fact that we're all mobile-friendly.
[00:23:20.094]There are a number of other sites,
[00:23:22.201]you can go to other big 10 peer institutions
[00:23:24.087]and you can see sites where
[00:23:25.477]go to it on your phone
[00:23:26.646]and it was clearly not designed for those people in mind
[00:23:29.756]so it's a big advantage that we have right now.
[00:23:32.220]We just want to keep making it better.
[00:23:39.582]So that's, I really do try to make this as simple
[00:23:41.616]as possible.
[00:23:42.620]I mean if it's something,
[00:23:43.934]I don't want to make it harder than that
[00:23:45.536]and if it's something, if you guys want,
[00:23:47.098]if you want to get something built,
[00:23:48.449]shoot an email and if I'm there that day,
[00:23:51.013]I try to get back to you pretty quick.
[00:23:52.981]If I'm not,
[00:23:53.985]you'll get an out of office
[00:23:54.977]but it shouldn't take very long to get some of these things
[00:23:57.657]set up and I just set up a meeting with you
[00:23:58.649]and we kind of go from there.
[00:24:05.071]Sounds good.
[00:24:06.080]I can see that Norm used this when,
[00:24:07.927]so sorry but that's where we need it
[00:24:11.776]but yeah that's the thing.
[00:24:13.788]I'm happy to send Matt's contact information
[00:24:16.010]out to the whole group.
[00:24:17.934]So it just saves you one step
[00:24:19.132]but it is mhonke10, I think right?
[00:24:21.303]Mhonke10@unl.edu but I will,
[00:24:23.159]I'll send that out.
[00:24:24.805]Any other questions for Matt?
[00:24:28.545]I'm sorry, I should allow for questions
[00:24:31.146]before I make my comment.
[00:24:35.580]My comment is I
[00:24:39.867]I particularly with you all as new faculty members
[00:24:42.839]and growing your resource group,
[00:24:44.215]I highly recommend that you all
[00:24:46.711]get something up there.
[00:24:47.738]Really easy and so
[00:24:51.977]we should all be utilizing them so.
[00:24:58.455]Any other comments for today?
[00:25:02.783]Norm, can you show me the Lincoln crowd?
[00:25:07.302]Still there?
[00:25:08.295]Yeah, thanks.
[00:25:10.177]Great, any questions?
[00:25:11.626]Ashram, Leo, Vitaly?
[00:25:13.984]Thank you so much for being.
[00:25:15.079]It's a great presentation.
[00:25:16.439]Thank you Matt
[00:25:17.431]and I was about to send the request.
[00:25:21.471]Oh cool, great, looking forward to it.
[00:25:24.709]Thank you Lily for organizing this.
[00:25:27.733]This is great.
[00:25:30.179]Yeah no problem.
[00:25:31.174]I'll try to be sure to send out reminders
[00:25:33.644]next time so we don't have so much leftover food
[00:25:35.850]in Lincoln.
[00:25:36.855](laughter)
[00:25:38.246]Why don't you come down there to get some coffee?
[00:25:40.126]Okay yeah come down
[00:25:41.591]'cause I think there's like
[00:25:43.022]bagels for like 25 or something in there.
[00:25:46.505]I got up with something
[00:25:47.499]so I'll come down there.
[00:25:48.928]Free food I love.
[00:25:50.468]Okay, thanks Norm for being here to record
[00:25:52.378]and stop the recording now and thank you Matt again.

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