How to use Atlas System to Request Web Updates
Log into Atlas Log into the Atlas system with your UT Dallas netID and password. Visit The Digital Services & Analytics service page. Use JSOM Application Development for custom development projects. Use JSOM CRM – Salesforce & Marketing Cloud for CRM services like email campaigns, reports, and event registration for prospective students. Use JSOM Data […]
Read moreCreate a Blog or News Post in WordPress
Introduction JSOM Perspectives and Inside Jindal used to be published through custom applications developed by JSOM Web Services. For simplicity, we’ll refer to these as Blog and News posts. As of early 2022 these publications have moved within the Jindal School website, which is built in WordPress. Below is a guide on how to create […]
Read moreSharing Videos from Microsoft Teams
Introduction When you host a Meeting or Webinar in Microsoft Teams, you can record the meeting (.mp4 file) and the transcript (.vtt file). Both the video and the transcript are important files that you will need in order to publish your recording for an internal or external audience. If you want to publish a recording […]
Read moreThe Jindal School Rankings Strategy Explained
What is the Jindal School Rankings Strategy? University rankings are powerful tools of persuasion — and not just for potential students. They also play a role in fundraising, talent recruitment and overall influence. The Jindal School strategy with regard to rankings is to focus on organizations where we have participated and provided data for criteria […]
Read moreComet Calendar Tips
Introduction Comet Calendar is the central UT Dallas calendar for publishing and finding campus events. Comet Calendar receives almost 50,000 views per month, making it one of the top pages on the UT Dallas website. Publishing your events on Comet Calendar brings more visibility to your program or organization, promotes attendance and sends a message […]
Read moreMarketplace – What You Need to Know
Introduction UT Dallas Marketplace is essentially an online mall with a variety of stores in it, and each store contains one or more products. Each store and product has a unique URL, which makes it easy to create links for users to easily reach either your store or a particular product in your store. For […]
Read moreVideo Content Guidelines for the Website
Introduction Today’s top marketing and advertising firms are marketing their products on YouTube in a big way because they know that today’s 18 to 36 year old is shopping for information on YouTube. According to Broadband and Search, young people spend 153 minutes a day watching videos. Our prospects do everything online from shopping to […]
Read moreJSOM Newsletters – Detailed Procedure for Web
Introduction This document is a companion to the JSOM Newsletters – Sending Process document, and it serves as a guide for JSOM Web Services staff who create the HTML email document and landing page for each newsletter. Detailed Process Step 1 Step 1 of the JSOM Newsletters – Sending Process concerns the newsletter Content Owner […]
Read moreUpdating Web Pages in WordPress
WordPress JSOM Web Services has multiple sites within the UT Dallas WordPress multisite environment. Below are the instructions for editing pages in https://sites.utdallas.edu/jindal, the Jindal School’s primary website. Note that only JSOM Web Services employees and student workers, plus a few JSOM staff members who publish Blog and News stories, have access to update web […]
Read moreWordPress Update Logging Procedure
Introduction Every time the members of JSOM Web Services update a web page in WordPress, they need to log the following: First name Date (format: “Nov 13, 2019”) Reason for update The purpose of manual update logging is to ensure that we can accurately report when our Content Owners are maintaining their pages. (Using the […]
Read moreVPN
Introduction PaloAlto GlobalProtect VPN allows users to remotely connect to the campus network in order to access on-premise resources. You must have VPN set up to ensure that you can access JSOM Intranet, our custom Jindal School dashboard that allows you to stay up to date on items or applications that have been designed and […]
Read moreHow to use JIRA System
Log into JIRA System Log into the JIRA system with your netID and Password. If you don’t have login credentials please send an email to jsomweb@utdallas.edu to request for an account to be created. Visit https://jira.utdallas.edu/ Enter your netID and Password Login Create a JIRA Request Once logged in click on create issue at the […]
Read moreHow to get JIRA Access
Have your supervisor/sponsor follow these steps: Steps Go here: https://ecat.utdallas.edu Supervisor’s NetID and Password, then Login Select Access Requests (Existing Users) > Computer Access from the dropdown Now you’re at Step 1 (You’ll see your progress on the page as you go through their 5 steps). Enter the NetID of the person who needs JIRA […]
Read moreWeb and Video Accessibility
What Is Web Accessibility? The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is a leading global authority on web accessibility. According to the WAI: When websites and web tools are properly designed and coded, people with disabilities can use them. However, currently many sites and tools are developed with accessibility barriers that make them difficult or impossible […]
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