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Administrative Training

2 Alumni Drive, Hampton, NH 03842 603.926.8992 ph 603.926.5157 fax www.sau21.org/sau/technology

What is Joomla?
Joomla is a modular content management system (CMS) It enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone. Joomla is the most popular open source CMS currently available (200,000 registered users). With a minimal amount of instruction, you can empower your clients to easily manage their own sites. Joomla is highly extensible and thousands of extensions (most for free) are available. Joomla runs off PHP/MySQL JOOMLA IS AN ALLINCLUSIVE APPLICATION
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What is a CMS?
A computer application used to create, edit, manage, and publish content in a consistently organized fashion. The content manager may include computer files, images, audio files, video files, electronic documents, and Web content. Allows for the ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different content categories or types. The ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content. The ability to publish the content to a repository to support access to the content (search and retrieval). Designed to simplify the publication of Web content to Web sites, in particular allowing content creators to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files.
Some help from wikipedia here

JOOMLA (CMS) IS AN APPLICATION

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Extensions

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Site Templates
A template is basically the design of your Joomla! powered website. With a template you can change the look and feel of your website. Templates have certain fields in which components and modules will be shown. Templates are easy to build or customize and they provide maximum flexibility in how you style your site. There are many places that offer free templates (joomla24, siteground). Downloaded templates can be customized.
Admin head menu > Extensions > Template Manager

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Site Components
A component is the largest and most complex extension of them all. They can be seen as mini-applications. There are two parts in a component, an administrator part and a site part. Every time a Joomla page loads, a component is called to render the main page body. Components are the major portion of your page because a component is driven by a menu item and every menu item runs a component. For example: com_content, com_registration
Admin head menu > Components

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Site Modules
Modules are more lightweight and flexible extensions used for page rendering. Sometimes modules are linked to components such as the latest news module which links to the com_content and displays links to the newest content items. These modules are mostly known as the boxes that are arranged around a component, for example: the login module. The footer is a module. Modules are assigned per menu item. So, you can decide to show or hide the logon module depending on which component (menu item) is used. Modules do not need to be linked to components, as a matter of fact they don't even need to be linked to anything and can be just static HTML or text. For example: mod_banners, mod_mainmenu
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Site Plug-ins (Mambots)

Plug-ins are more advanced extensions and are in essence event handlers. In the execution of any part of Joomla, be it the core, a module or a component, an event can be triggered. When an event is triggered, plug-ins that are registered with the application to handle that event execute. Plug-ins were also known as mambots. Example Video code handler. For example: content.searchbot, tinymce
Admin head menu > Extensions > Plug-ins Manager

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Content Management

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Site Sections
Highest Level of organization. Contains sub directories called Categories. Required there must be a place to put content! Can be enabled or disabled as a whole. Can be linked to Menus
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Site Categories
Second Level of Organization Requires a Section assignment Contains Site Content or the actual page content that would normally be considered html files. Can be enabled or disabled as a whole. Can be linked to menus as a table or in blog format.
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Site Content
These are your pages. Must have a Section and Category. Stored in the database (not actual files). Can be linked to menus. Can be time stamped. Are specifically assigned.
Public - open to all visitors to the web site. Registered - restricted to all seven Registered User Groups of the web site. Special - restricted to all User Groups except Guest and Registered.
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Content Management
Site Section 1

Category 1

Category 2

Content

Content

Content

Section 2

Category

Content

Content

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Content Editors
Control features for editing/user uploads. Can be assigned per user. Can be different in the front and back ends. Many different editors available.

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Site Administration

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Two Sides of Joomla

Front End /index.php?option=com_user&view=login Requires Registered Account. Teachers and quick content editing.

Back End /administrator Requires Back-End Administrative Privileges. Site administration, full featured site control.

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Front End
Generally a module or menu link allows registered users to login. Content can be setup specifically for registered users. Front-end registration can be enabled. If permitted users can edit content inline by clicking the edit button.

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Back End
/administrator to login to the back end. Back-End administrators can edit all site content and user accounts. This is your server control, changes to templates, modules, components, installation, categories, sections.

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Front End User Roles

Guest: Not a User Group
A Guest is anyone that is connected to the web site but NOT registered and/or logged in. A Guest only has access to the Front-end Content that has an Access Classification of Public.

Front-end User Groups

Registered: The Registered User Group comprises those users who have completed the registration process.
As a Registered User they have the access permission to log in to the web site, view all Content that is Classified as Registered Access as well as Public Access Content. By default Registered Users are able to configure their own User Profile, submit a Web Link, view/rate Content Items with a Registered Classification,

Author: The Author User Group inherits the access permissions of the Registered User Group and in addition, its members are allowed to create a new Content Item for the Frontend of the web site. Editor: The Editor User Group inherits the access permissions of the Author User Group and, in addition, its members are allowed to edit all published Content Items for the Front-end of the web site, and to review and edit (where appropriate) any new Content Item that has yet to be published. Publisher: The Publisher User Group inherits the access permissions of the Editor User Group, and in addition, its members are allowed to publish new Content Items to the Frontend of the web site. In addition the Publisher can control existing published Content Items and Unpublish them if necessary by direct entry into the Content Item itself.

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Back End User Roles

Manager: The Manager User Group inherits the access permissions of the Publisher User Group in the Front-end Site: Media Manager Preview. Statistics Menu: Access and edit existing Menus Content: Content by Section, All Content, Static Content Manager, Section Manager, Category Manager, Front Page Manager, Archives Manager. Page Impressions Administrator: The Administrator User Group inherits the access permissions of the Manager User Group and in addition has the following permissions: Trash Manager User Manager may create/edit/delete any user of the same level or below all except Super Administrator. Menu Manager Site Modules Administrator Modules Components
Banners Contacts News Feeds Polls Syndicate Web Links Site Mambots

Mambots:

Installers
Components Modules Mambots

Super Administrator: The Super Administrator User Group has total access permission that is for all Back-end administration and all Front-end functions.

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User Manager
Allows you to add, remove, enable, disable and update user accounts.

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Menu Manager
Joomla allows for unlimited number of menus. Menus can link to anything on the site. Menus can link to external resources. Menus are linked to modules, and can be moved.

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Common Extensions

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JCal
Calendar solution currently being used at LAS/SAU 21. Includes Component for managing actual calendar Includes Module for Upcoming events listing Includes Module for mini-calendar. Components and Module are seamless.

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DocMan (Document Manager)

Front end and Back end document management. Permissions to download. Shows hits, date published and added. Feature Rich.

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Community Builder
Teacher Profile Component. Currently being used in Barnard. Links to user accounts. Multiple modules available!

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Mamblog/CB Profile Gallery

Teachers can create pages on the fly Link to teacher profile pages automatically Teachers can share photos and files with students

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