The document provides instructions for four primary uses of the website www.ardscoil.ie: as a calendar to book rooms, as a notice board to post notices, as a teaching resource by adding posts and files. It includes steps for adding events to Google Calendar, adding posts and files to the site, and inserting hyperlinks to YouTube videos, articles, and other useful external links. The instructions emphasize logging out of personal accounts, selecting the proper categories and notice board tag, and providing all relevant information when adding new posts or pages to the site.

1. USING
WWW.ÁRDSCOIL.IE

2. Four Primary uses of the árdscoil.ie
As a Calendar
To Book Specialist Rooms
As a Notice Board
As a Teaching Resource

3. Adding an event to a Google
Calendar
To add an event to a
Google Calendar click
on the

4. Ensure to log out of your
personal google account.

5. Using the website as a
Noticboard

6. Difference between Pages and Posts
The PAGES are the
BRANCHES of the tree and
the POSTS are the LEAVES
of the Tree.
Normally teachers will be
adding POSTS.

7. Adding a Post
From The Staff Menu, select
“Upload Information”
...fill in username and
password

8. From the Dashboard,
under Posts, Click
“Add new”

9. Now fill out the “Add New Post” form
Ensure to Click any Categories you think relevant on the
right,
It is particularly important to click notice board if you want
the post to notice to appear on the homepage.
When finished, click Publish

10. Adding files to the
post.
Any digital content that you wish to add to
the website must be uploaded to our
server.
This is done under the “Media” section,
simply click “Add New” and browse your
own documents to find the file you wish to
upload.
N.B. Maximum File Size of 2mb

11. Adding links to our posts &
pages
Every page or object that we can access on the web has a URL.
amazon.com, ardscoil.ie, ardscoil.ie/calendars or http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHJzu55_zM0
We can type or copy and paste a URL into the address bar of our
browser to visit a page, or we can use HTML to set up a
HYPERLINK on our page.

12. Adding HYPERLINKS
Hyperlinks can be constructed using very simple HTML code or
by clicking a button on our Webpage software, Wordpress.

13. Hyperlinks
Every Hyperlink has an anchor and a target.
The anchor is what the webpage will display, it could be a single
dot, a word, a sentence or an image
The target is the file that the Browser, (explorer etc.) will jump to
if you click on the anchor.
The anchor and the Target are completely independent of each
other.
The Trick is to copy the URL of your target, before starting to
create your hyperlink

14. Hyperlinks
To add links
to
YOUTUBE
sites or
newspaper
articles, copy
the URL from
the address
bar and paste
into add link
window

15. Usefull Links
Keepvid.com
http://www.slideshare.net/

16. TASKS
Book a computer room.
Enter a sports event in the sports calendar.
Update your subject page.
Create some useful links on your page.