uConnect

David Kozhuk

Anna Brogan

Tala Kasih

Leverage the tools at your disposal to produce and organize amazing content. Content is king, after all.

Publish Content

Limit who can view individual pieces of content through a series of user restrictions that you control!

Restrict viewership of individual pieces of content

Discover how you can tell where a piece of content is located on the back end, from your URL

Learn where to find content on your platform

Learn how to assign communities and content categories to a piece of content to ensure they appear in the right communities and alerts.

How do I tag a piece of content?

Sometimes, we hit publish before we're quite ready. Learn how to quickly 'unpublish' something and bring it back to draft mode!

How to turn published content back to a draft?

Learn how to create blogs and events under the community expert user role.

Create content as a community expert

There are different types of content on your platform, learn how they all work together to provide information for your users!

Learn how content is organized on your platform

Learn how to clear your page cache to ensure anonymous visitors and logged in sessions are consistent

Page Cache

Learn about what changes the uConnect support team can help you implement!

What do I need to reach out to the uConnect team to update on my platform?

Alli Pierpont

Shannon Desmond

Content Overview & Best Practices

Learn how to highlight valuable blog posts published by external sources in your uConnect platform by giving proper citation and credit.

Feature an external blog not pulled in through one of our external blog providers

Find step by step instructions to create RSS feeds to bring in blogs from your campus to publish in uConnect.

Review steps to create an RSS feed for campus blog articles

Read about a helpful way to hide post dates from your blogs newsfeed on the homepage

Learn how to hide dates from your front page blog listing

Learn about the aria-label attribute in our widgets, and how this supports screen readers.

Learn about how the 'read more' buttons on widgets include descriptive text for screen readers

Read on to learn how to properly tag your blog posts so that they show up where you intend!

How do I ensure a blog post is assigned to a specific community or blog category?

Want to update your article? Learn how to edit your previously published posts here!

Edit a blog post

Publish captivating content that will keep your audience returning again and again.

Publish blog posts

Use the scheduling tool in the “Publish” section of your blog posts to control when your users will see certain content

Schedule a Blog Post

A microblog is the perfect way to get a quick message across while simultaneously adding visual variety to your blog feed.

Publish microblogs

Learn how to delete outdated blog content from your platform with a few easy clicks.

Remove a blog post

Find out how to edit and publish a blog so it's only available to your site's logged-in users.

Publish a private blog

Learn how to set a custom preview for each of your blog posts to encourage user engagement.

Customize the excerpt text on your blog posts

Enhance your messaging for added impact by inserting images, videos, emojis, gifs and more.

Incorporate expressive messaging

Use this simple trick to automatically draw your tagged blog content from a community page to an external site.

Find your blog's community RSS feed

Use your Content Categories to create a dynamic blog with multiple themes.

Organize your blog into themes

Build your blog feed with expert articles crafted by our trusted content partners.

Learn about our external blog library

Did you write something so good it deserves a spotlight? Here's how to keep a post featured on your homepage.

Create a sticky post

Blog Posts

Learn the ins-and-outs of filtering and sorting through published and reviewed content from your external blog library.

What do the external blog library previews include?

Let us show you the workflow for importing and publishing external blog content to your uConnect platform.

Import and publish content from the external blog library

Choose to ignore the articles that don't align with the vision you have for your uConnect blog.

Ignore articles in the external blog library

Learn how to filter the blog library for content you've already reviewed

Filter the external blog library by ignored and previously imported content

Learn about the two ways to filter through content by source.

Filter the external blog library by content provider

Embed Vault's trusted career advice content into your platform's blog!

Manage blog content from the Vault

External Blog Library

Learn how to publish and manage classes with ease.

Publish and manage classes

Learn how to reorder classes so that they appear first in your course library and community class widgets.

Reorder your classes

Learn how to move published, pending, or draft-mode classes to your ‘Trash’ folder, and delete them permanently.

Delete a class

Classes

Career center staff can create a profile on an employer's behalf, or approve a profile that an employer has submitted

Create and edit employer profiles

Career center staff can review and publish employers and jobs from the admin dashboard

Publish pending employer profiles and jobs

Employers can submit jobs within their own profiles which you can then choose to publish to your platform.

How do employers submit jobs?

Looking to remove an employer or job from your site? Find out how to do so here.

Archive employer profiles and delete job posts

Sponsorship Categories organize your employer partners into specific tiers.

Set up Sponsorship Categories

Schools that have the sponsorship module use sponsor profiles to offer their employer partners premium exposure to students.

Manage sponsorship profiles

Utilize this eye-catching widget to feature some of your most valuable employer partners.

Highlight key employer partners with the sponsorship ribbon

Publishing job posts is crucial in providing users with irresistible reasons to return to your platform.

Add jobs to employer profiles

Find out which fields will update automatically in uConnect, and which don't

What happens in uConnect when I update a job or event in my CSM?

Employers & Jobs

Use uConnect to get the word out about events such as career fairs, information sessions and on-campus interviews to your students.

Create events

As an event passes, it will automatically disappear from your site. However, you can manually remove an event at any time if needed.

Delete events

Whether you track RSVPs internally or externally, doing so can offer valuable data on your event attendance.

Manage event RSVPs

Below are tips on how to leverage internal and external RSVPs.

Learn best practices: event RSVPs

Display tags to to attract more people to your events!

Learn to create calendars specific to each audience type to help them quickly find events relevant to them.

Create user-specific calendars

Events

Learn what this content type is and how to leverage it with use cases, best practices, and more.

What are uConnect 'experiences'?

Learn how to curate experiences straight to your career communities, making the exploration process easier than ever for your subscribers.

Embed experiences into your communities

Outdated study abroad program or volunteer trip? Learn how to delete it here! Accidentally delete something? Restore it!

Delete and restore experiences

Learn how to add new experiences to your platform, and what fields are required.

Add experiences

Experiences

Learn how to embed a form into a resource so that you can tag and share it amongst your communities.

Create a form as a resource

Forms, also referred to as surveys, can be built within the admin dashboard and embedded into custom pages on your site.

Create a form

Learn to embed a form straight onto your page to make it easily accessible to users.

Embed a form

Configure form confirmations to notify guests when their submissions are received.

Configure form confirmations

Configure form notifications to alert your staff members when a new response is submitted.

Configure form notifications

Learn how to configure and customize form notifications

Customize your form notifications

Export form entry data to analyze and organize responses.

Analyze form entries

Forms

Explore the different types of media that you can upload to your media library

Learn what types of media can be added to your media library

Having trouble uploading a new version of a media file?

Add alt text to images to make your platform more accessible

Adding Alt Text to Images

Utilize in-house tools from the dashboard to resize and adjust images to your specifications.

Crop, resize, and scale images

Audio is an exciting and engaging medium for engaging your audience. Here's how to use audio on your uConnect platform!

Upload and publish audio files

Images add context and intrigue to pages, posts and profiles. Never wonder if you're working with a correctly sized image again.

Refer to the image sizing guide

Learn the difference between logos and featured images

What’s the difference between logos and featured images?

Media

Use uConnect to spread the word about events your club is hosting or events related to your organization

Add events to an organization's page

Learn how to add club presidency to an organization's page

Add student leaders to an organization's page

Learn how to feature resources to your organization's page

Add resources to an organization's page

Add sponsors to an organization's page

This is a step-by-step guide on how to build an Organization page on uConnect

How to add an Organization

Organizations

All the basics on using the People content type

Add and manage People

People

Choose to show the featured image just on the preview tile, and remove it from the resource landing page!

Hide your featured image from the resource landing page

Career education resources stand at the core of your career center's offering. Learn how to add internal and external resources.

Add resources

Doing some spring cleaning? Shedding a particularly under-used resource? You can painlessly remove a resource at any time for any reason.

Delete resources

Showcase your hottest resources by assigning them an order from the dashboard.

Reorder resources

Harness the power of the resource! Learn about the three distinct resource types you can create to engage users.

The three types of resources: explained

Wondering how the Related Resources widget works? Find out here.

What are related resources?

Implement some small design changes to make a big impact on student engagement

Want to give your resources a makeover?

Want to highlight one resource above all else? Let us create a custom CTA!

Create a special call-to-action for your most valued resource

Learn the difference between private resources and password protected resources

Private Resources Versus Password Protected Resources

Have some top-secret content you don't want everyone to access? Here's how to add password protection.

Find out how to password protect specific resources or pages

How do I add resources?

Resources

Some blocks don't let you easily change their size, but you can leverage the Group block for greater control

Change the width of Block Editor elements

Learn about your video content type and what you can do with it on your uConnect platform!

Learn about video content

Read about a workaround to embed videos that aren't hosted on YouTube, Wistia, Vimeo, or Candid Career

Learn how to embed videos or podcasts that aren't supported by our videos content type

Learn how to expand your video library by adding new videos.

Add a new video

Learn how to update or manage your existing videos.

Edit a video

Learn how to remove a video from your uConnect platform.

Delete a video

Learn about hero videos and how they help to highlight content within your video library.