Parent Resources
Important resources and information for our High Bridge parents and guardians
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May 2023
In this issue: What's New? | Best Practices | In the Spotlight | Training Info | Accessibility
Note: Some pages linked below require a PGCPS login to view.
The Web Team has created many themed background containers that you can use to fill in your parents' and students' pages without much work.
These containers include:
You can find them in the assets pane < Blocks < Shared < Background Containers. Drag and drop on a page and publish! We do the rest!
In these examples, High Bridge Elementary Parent Resources page uses several background containers including, SchoolMAX Resources for Parents, PGCPS Parent Resources, and School Meal Resources. The Largo High School Student Resources page includes the Drug Prevention and Information background container and uses the IDM Self Service to Manage Student Accounts BC.
Reminder: For accessibility, images and videos in particular should be named descriptively as screen readers will read the file name or Alternate text for those file types.
Assets are listed alphabetically. To keep them organized by school year consider putting the year first in the file name. Pro-Tip - If you do not need to include the year or date, don't. We call this keeping content "green".
Example: Welcome Letter 2023 should just be Welcome Letter because you would replace the document next year anyway by naming it with the same name and dragging it into the file.
It is very important to include the Block Prefixes (RT, A, AI, LC, etc) when naming your different block types. Then editors (yourself or another team member) will know exactly what type of block it is.
Featured websites in this issue are from Web Services, Career and Technical Education (CTE), and Barack Obama ES (Parent and Student Handbook).
Web Services have migrated and organized our training documentation and shared resources into the Editor's Playground. Our Career and Technical Education (CTE) office utilizes a combination of rich text blocks, background containers, and partial page views of internal and external resources to build their robust main page. Barack Obama ES uses an accordion to give a quick look and then the ability to expand a section. These blocks are also reused on pages to help with search.
Take a few minutes to learn why accessibility matters to everyone. As web editors of critical websites, we need to make sure that our content is accessiblie to all visitors. Making web pages accessible helps them be found more easily in search, too!