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      Upload files to the file manager


      This 6-minute video provides an overview of the SchoolNow file manager and how to view, manage and upload files to a department on your website.

      If you are a new customer, this video also shows how to position a starting batch of imagery for our migration team to use as they migrate content from your current site into the staged pages.

      Digital assets are any kind of file; logos, Word and Excel documents, PDFs, images, and many other formats. The above video also shows how to position a starting batch of imagery for our migration team to use as they migrate content from your current site into the staged pages.

      Please note that Sites & Departments, referred to in the video, are now called Websites in the SchoolNow platform.


      We especially want you to upload your best quality images to your file manager when building page content. These images may be lying around on CDs or DVDs... or perhaps you just had a photographer capture images from a recent event. Collect these images and upload them to your website or share a Google drive folder with your project manager. Remember, while our team can pull imagery from your current/live website, it is undesirable to do so. These images were scaled and optimized for your current site's resolution. Your new theme in the latest platform will need different resolutions of imagery (all created automatically from your hires versions)...and so, it's better to start with the best imagery you have. 


      Be selective about the media you upload to your website, as the media will consume the disk space that counts towards your plan's disk space quota. Find your best quality, high-resolution images and avoid multiple images that look the same. We define high-resolution as images being a minimum of 2000 pixels in width or height. By choosing these better quality images, SchoolNow will automatically create all of the versions you may need across your website and allow you to select the best size when needed. If you want to color-correct your images, that should be done before uploading them to your website. Just be sure to maintain the image's original resolution. If you need a good image editor, try the free online one at Pixlr.com/editor.


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