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.