Learning how to edit your page and text in OU Campus is one of the most valuable skills you can learn. 

Follow these Guidelines

  • Before editing a live page or before submitting a content update request, always have your content written and approved (by your department). 
  • Follow Content Guidelines, Accessibility Standards, and Know Your Audience

Tips

  • A file needs to be unlocked and able to checked out to edit
  • Use the green direct edit buttons to edit the content directly below them
  • Get to know the toolbar & strip formatting when pasting in text
  • Learn how to add a link

Keep these functions in mind on your journey to adding and editing content:

How to Edit a Page

There are multiple ways to navigate to a page to edit it. To edit a page, first it must be available to be checked out to you.

Remember to get approval from your department's web supervisor to make major changes to your content.

Direct Edit Function

In Edit Mode, click a green direct edit region button. Note: Clicking the green direct edit buttons will "check out" the page if unlocked.

Page Properties & More

To access the page properties and other functions, click the lightbulb to check the page out instead of using the green direct edit buttons.

Access Through Your Folder

To access your directory, first click the Split File Navigation button.

  • In the folder structure view, you can navigate through directories of the website
  • To edit a page or its properties, first click its .pcf file, then check the page out

Content Pages View

Register for an Intermediate training to learn more functionality with the Content Pages View.


How to Edit Text 

To edit a content region, click its green direct edit button. This will open a WYSIWYG (What-You-See-is-What-You-Get) editor.

  • WYSIWYG editors allow you to add, delete, or modify content without HTML
  • This editor will be similar to most word processing software, such as Microsoft Word
  • The toolbar will have some options you are familiar with, with a few unique to OU Campus
  • Clear your formatting remove-format icon when pasting in text from outside of OU Campus
  • Review how to Insert/Edit hyperlinks


Once you have completed your edits, click the Save button to return to the page preview screen. If you wish to return to the folder structure view without saving your work, click the split-screen button in the upper left-hand corner. Don't forget to "check in" the page if your work is complete.

Learn how to add and edit images

 

Images & How to Use Them