Google Sites

Google Sites makes it easy to create a website by yourself or collaboratively with others, and then share the site with individuals, UWF, or the world. With Google Sites you can include information from many other sources - creating a single location to display videos, documents, slideshows, and more.

View Sample Sites:

• Sample Site: Project Work
• Sample Site: Outdoor Club
• Sample Site: Soccer Team
• Sample Site: Project Wiki

Learn More:

• Create a New Site
• Change How Your Site Looks
• Add Docs, Videos, Images, Calendars, Gadgets, and More
• Share, Collaborate, & Control Access
• Revision History

Google Sites is not officially supported by the ITS Help Desk. This section covers the features available in Google Sites so that you can imagine the possibilities and start exploring. More information on Google Sites is available in the Google Help Center.

Create a New Site

Create a Site:

1. Log into UWF Gmail and click the Sites link in the upper-left corner.
2. Click the Create new site button.
3. Select either a Blank template or Browse the gallery for more templates.
4. Enter your site name. Google will automatically assign a URL (web address) for your site, but you can change it.
5. Choose a theme for your site.
6. Under More Options, enter categories and a description if desired, and select who you want to collaborate with (people who will be able to view your new site).
7. Click the Create site button.

Add a Page:

1. Now that you've created your site, you can create a new page by clicking the Create page button in the upper-right corner of your site.
2. Select a page type
   • Web Page: Standard blank page.
   • Announcements: Use an Announcement page to post chronological information like news, status updates, or notable events.
   • File Cabinet: A File Cabinet allows you to store and manage uploaded documents. Version history is stored for documents so you can always return to an earlier version.
   • List: List pages allow you to easily track lists of information. You can choose from list templates or configure your own custom columns.
   • Start Page: Page to display an overview of information from multiple Google Gadgets.
3. Name the new page and select a location.
4. Click the Create Page button.

Change How Your Site Looks

There are countless ways to customize the way your site looks. Click the links below for more information.

• How do I change themes, colors, and fonts?
• How do I set the landing page for my site?
• How do I change the sidebar?
• How do I change the logo?

Add Docs, Videos, Images, Calendars, Gadgets, and More

You can add images, spreadsheets, presentations, videos, calendars, gadgets and more to your Google Site.

To start adding objects and apps to your site, click the Edit page button in the upper-right corner of your site. Then, select Insert, and pick the object or app you'd like to insert.

Share, Collaborate, & Control Access

As the site owner, you can control who can edit and view your site by adding others as owners, collaborators, or viewers. Follow these steps:

1. Click More actions in the top right of any page and select Share this site.
2. Enter the email addresses of the people you'd like to add.
3. Select as owners, as collaborators' or as viewers. Learn the difference.
4. You can also choose to share with UWF or to make the site public.
5. Click Invite these people. Then write a message and click Send if you'd like to send an invitation, or click Skip sending an invitation to add people to your site without sending them an invitation. They'll still be able to access the site if they know the URL.

Google limits the number of sharing invites that can be sent per day. See limits.

IMPORTANT: Faculty/Staff Sharing to Students (and Vice Versa)

At UWF, we use two different copies of Google Apps: one for faculty/staff and one for students. As a result, when a student clicks a link to a faculty/staff site, the student may receive the login page for Faculty/Staff Google Apps, since that's where the site was created. In this case, the student should use the link at the bottom of the login page to Sign in with a different account.

Revision History

While you and your collaborators are editing your site, you can keep track of changes (and of the person who made them), and even revert to an older version by using Revision History. From your site, click More actions in the top right of any page and select Revision History.

On the next page, you'll see a list of site versions, the date and time each was last edited, and the name of the person who made the changes.

If you change your mind about the most recent edits you or your collaborators made to the site, simply revert to an older version. Here's how:

1. Click any version from the list.
2. After returning to the "Version history" view, click the Revert to this version link next to the version you'd like to revert to.

Your document is reset to the version you selected. The replaced version is also included in the version history and can be restored as well.