Accessing the CMS

How to gain or remove access to the CMS

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Gain Access

1. Complete the CMS Level 1 / Intro course
   
   • Web Content Management System - Intro
   • You will not be granted access to the CMS until you have completed this course
   • The course is free and you can register via the link above
2. Complete the online Website Accessibility course, approximately 60 minutes
   • Website Accessibility (online)
3. Requesting access
   
   • Prior to being given access to author a website in the CMS, your supervisor or appointing authority will need to send an email to webhelp@uwyo.edu approving your access to author a specified site with the information below.  
      
     • Site author's username - the part of the site author's email to be added to the CMS without the '@uwyo.edu'
     • Training
       • CMS Level 1 training completion date of the user to be added to the CMS
       • Website Accessibility completion date of the user to be added to the CMS
     • URL / web address for your site - https://www.uwyo.edu/admissions/
       • Where "admissions" is the site name in the CMS
         
       • The site name is the first subfolder after "uwyo.edu/"

 

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Remove Access

1. Removing site authors
   • To request that an user be removed from your site's authoring group, send and email to webhelp@uwyo.edu with the following information:
     • Example: 
       • Site author's username - joecowboy (the part of the site author's email without the '@uwyo.edu')
       • URL / web address for your site - http://www.uwyo.edu/ admissions/ - (Where "admissions" is the site name in the CMS)

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Additional Information

• To see who has author access to your site, please go to our knowledge base article, How to See Site Authors.
• To learn how to use additional features available in the CMS and build out the rest of your site, see additional how-to information or the training and manuals page.