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Link to CMS Cheat Sheet

CMS Cheat Sheet

How to do the following

Login to CMS

  1. Click on the "copyright" sign at the bottom of the USF web page and enter your single sign-on credentials.  This will bring up the CMS tool.


Editing pages

  1. You can navigate to the page you would like to edit and then login or once you are in CMS, you can navigate around the folders shown in the upper left corner.
  2. Once you are on the correct page, click on the light bulb to check out the page for editing.
  3. Click on the "Edit" button in order to edit the page contents.
  4. Note: In order to edit the website home page, you must navigate to the page and check it out before it allows you to edit.


Saving Pages

  1. Once you have made all of the edits to the page, click on the "floppy disk icon/save button" in order to save.
  2. Click on the light bulb to check it in (it should not be yellow if it is checked in).


Publishing Pages

  1. Once you are ready to publish a page, it is recommended to publish in a test environment.
  2. Click on the green Publish button.
  3. When the Publish window pops up, select the target environment (production or test).
  4. It is recommended that you click "Run All" to run checks on spelling, broken links and disability access issues.  Once these are all fixed, you can publish to the appropriate web page.


See what you have checked out

  1. When you are ready to log out, please click on "Dashboard-Overview" to ensure all the pages you had checked out are checked back in.




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