As we begin the spring semester, here are a few tips for preparing your site.
Take Some Time to Think About Your Sites
The start of the semester is a busy time for everyone. Don't try to fix everything on your site at the busiest time of the year, but do take a little time to be mindful about your site. Pause, focus, and plan. What are your goals for your department, program, or center? How can you use your site to achieve those goals? What little things can you do to give you the most benefit for the least amount of invested time?
Schedule a time to return to the more involved projects later in the semester, and consider setting up a time to meet with the CHSSWeb team to review your site.
Read Our Spring and Fall Maintenance Tips
We provide advice for Spring and Fall maintenance on the CHSSWeb help site.
Prepare for New Faculty Hires
We are receiving many requests for adding new faculty and staff to the system. Banner releases information about new hires to us soon after they are first paid. If you are able to wait, the system will add new faculty and staff at that time. If you need to add a new person before they are imported, please send us an email with their key information. Please see the instructions on the CHSSWeb Help site.
Let Faculty Know They Control Their Bios
Please remind faculty members that they can edit their own bios, edit the descriptions of the course sections they are teaching, and upload syllabi for those sections. After new bios are created, the system sends emails to let people know how to update their new bios.
Use Your Course Sections Fully
Remember that site administrators and individual faculty members can edit course section titles and descriptions, upload syllabi, and even add an image to each of your course sections. See the help site for instructions.
January 25, 2022
