Site Builder Role

Google and bConnected Widgets

Site Builders and Widget Editors may use the Google/bConnected widgets to embed the following Google items on their pages: Google Doc, Google Form, Google Calendar, Custom Google Map

Add a Spotlight (slideshow)

Overview

Spotlights are photo slideshows that contain images overlaid with optional titles and descriptions. You can link them to pages on your site, or to external webpages.

Spotlight images are fully-responsive; the spotlight will rescale itself to fit the space available to it depending on your page layout and the viewer's device size. For best results, you may want to crop and resize your images to one of the available layout styles/ratios (see below) before you upload them.

When you choose one of the available spotlight options (see below) and drag them into different...

Thumbnail List

A Thumbnail List allows Site Builders to feature one or more "thumbnail"-sized photos with accompanying title text (which is linked to either internal or external content), with the option to add secondary text as well.

User Roles

Open Berkeley provides four roles that Site Builders can assign.

List of User Roles on the Open Berkeley Platform

In order of increasing privileges, these roles are:

Contributor: The most limited role, as Contributors can only edit content that they own. Assign it to users who need to be able to edit just a few pages, such as their faculty profile page or a small section of the site. Editor: A more advanced role than Contributor, and has all of the permissions as the Contributor, plus a few more. Assign it to users who need to be able to edit multiple...

Edit Summary on Content Items

On many content types on the Open Berkeley platform, there is an "Edit Summary" option. On Landing pages, the label for this field is "Summary".

The "Edit Summary" option is helpful for showing the "teaser" (summary) text on the following features:

News Archive page...

Twitter Widget

Twitter Widget allows site builders to add Twitter timeline widgets to pages. You need a Twitter account to create these widgets, but you do not need a Twitter developer account or API key. Please note: As of late 2023, the X/Twitter widget has been deprecated due to platform issues interfering with proper feed display.

Class Listings

The Class Listing widget allows Site Builders to embed a filtered list of classes from the Berkeley Academic Guide. The Academic Guide is is a robust tool to help the campus community explore Berkeley’s curricula and find classes, with various filters available.

Social Media Options

If you have social media pages for your department/project, you can include links to these pages that will show up in the footer of your site. To add them, navigate to the Theme Settings link from your Site Builder dashboard (admin/dashboard, under "Other Administration").

Add Links to Social Media Accounts to the Footer of Your Site

Check the box called "Include Social...

Add Images/Photos

Overview

Images can be added to all pages on an Open Berkeley website, either directly in a content item (such as a Content page, News item, or FAQ item), or added to a customized page (such as a Landing page, or...

News Types

Overview

News Types are optional when using News Items. If you choose to create News Types (see instructions on the Categories page), you can either display a single News Type under the "News" menu item, or you can filter by News Types in a widget area on any page (see Types of Widgets).

Once you have created News Types, they will show up as checkboxes that you can select from when creating a News item (you...