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Community pages
Community pages are dynamic hubs for showcasing curated, tagged content such as resources, videos, classes, mentors, and blogs. They allow for frequent updates and integration with other platform features like Uconnect emails.
Every type of content on your platform, such as jobs, events, people, and blogs can be tagged to a Community page. The purpose of a Community page is to store related information about a particular career interest, identity, or another shared topic, allowing users to view a full range of resources, people, and events connected to a topic in the same place.
To learn more about Career Community pages for example, check out this article.
How to Identify a Community Page:
Look for the word "channels" in the page URL.
Community pages feature widgets that display tagged content.
Custom Pages
Custom pages, also called regular pages, are single-purpose pages ideal for specific content like staff directories, mission statements, or event landing pages.
How to Identify a Custom Page:
The URL ends with a backslash followed by the page name (e.g., "/outcomes").
These pages are not designed to display tagged content or widgets.
How to Manage Community Pages
Accessing Community Pages
Navigate to Manage > Communities in the admin dashboard.
Use the search bar to find specific pages by name.
Click on a page to edit its settings.
Editing Community Pages
You can customize several elements of a community page:
Name: Update the page name as needed.
Description: Use the text editor to add or modify the page description.
Header Image: Add or update the background header image.
Static Content: Add advanced text, images, or videos to the top of the page using the "Edit Static Content" button.
Visibility Filters: Set filters to control who can view the page, such as locking it behind SSO or restricting visibility.
Working with Widgets on a Community Page
Widgets display the tagged content on community pages. Examples include resources, events, and job postings.
To add content to a widget, tag it to the relevant community page.
Layout or structural changes to widgets must be handled by uConnect support.
Key Considerations
Some pages, like the "student" community page, have restricted edits (e.g., URL changes) due to their connection to user account sign-ups.
Community pages cannot be archived. You can keep them active or delete them permanently.
Pages
Pages differ from community and content category pages since they are static in nature, meaning they resemble standard website pages, and do not have additional functions or features embedded within them. These pages should be used rarely. Pages do not store wide arrangements of resources, as the community and category pages do.
To learn more about pages, check out this article.
Accessing Pages
Navigate to Publish > Pages in the admin dashboard.
Use the search bar to find a specific page.
Click on a page to edit or update its content.
Editing Custom Pages
Pages can be used for:
Staff or team pages (e.g., "Meet the Team" page)
Mission statements
Content-specific landing pages (e.g., "Fall Career Fair")
Archiving Pages
Pages can be moved to the trash and unpublished for later use.
Unlike Community pages, pages are easier to archive and restore.
Best Practices
When to Use Community Pages
If the page will host dynamic content that requires tagging and frequent updates.
If you want the page to integrate with Uconnect emails or act as a filterable hub for users.
When to Use Custom Pages
For single-purpose content that doesn’t require tagging or widgets.
When the page’s content won’t be updated dynamically.
What are content category pages?
Content category pages are another great way to organize information about jobs, employers, events, resources, blogs, or people. They differ from Community tags/pages, as content category tags and their automatically generated pages can organize only a single type of content. For example, some types of event categories added may include 'career fairs', 'virtual events', etc. Therefore, a resource would not be tagged with an event content category tag, as only an event would make sense to tag to this. Content category pages automatically pull in and display the information that is tagged to that one specific content category.
To learn more about content category pages, check out this article.
For both content category and community pages, users you have the ability to add static text and set banner images, to provide introduction and context to your Community or Content Category Page.