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Create Google site

Log in to your Google Account
1. Students, Log in to http://webmail.students.niu.edu with your student Z-ID credentials.
2. Faculty/Staff, Log in to your personal GMAIL account or one that you might have created for the purpose of teaching or work.
Visit https://sites.google.com
Select CREATE
Select a Blank Template, Warning - DO NOT USE A GALLERY TEMPLATE!
Enter a name for your Site. (a good practice is to use your Z-ID)
You may select a theme.
Select CREATE.
1. Student sites will be created in the domain https://sites.google.com/a/students.niu.edu/ On the next page, select Public on Web.

Create a Google analytics account
Log in to your Google Account
1. Students, Log in to http://webmail.students.niu.edu with you student Z-ID credentials.
2. Faculty/Staff, Log in to your personal GMAIL account or one that you might have created for the purpose of teaching or work.
Visit http://analytics.google.com
Select Sign in, then Sign up
Give the Website a name
Paste your website URL into the Website Name field
Complete the rest of the information

Find the Property ID, right under your site name, and copy the Property ID to your clipboard

Go to sites.google.com and open up your site from Tech Ex 1
Click the More Actions drop-down menu and select Manage Site.
Under the Statistics section, Click the box next to Enable Google Analytics for this site
Enter your Analytics Web Property ID in the associated box.
Click "Save."
Back in Google Analytics select the Reporting button from the top then Real-Time, Overview from the left pane.
If you’re on your website right now, you see at least one visitor. That’s you.
Explore the different reports, we’ll come back to Analytics later.

Visit Groups.Google.Com
Select CREATE Group
Create a Group Name, notice your Group email address
Select Web Forum for the Group Type
The default permissions allow anybody to view posts, but only members can post and reply to posts. Those are sufficient
Select CREATE
Select Add a topic and start posting
Before you post something, open another browser tab, go to your favorite Internet technology news source (mashable, engadget, techcrunch, and cnet are all great), find an interesting technology article, copy the link, paste it back in your Google Group post body, add sentence or two about the article. Select POST
Copy the URL from your browser’s address bar
Go back to your Google Site
Insert a new page, call it Tech News
With your cursor in the main text box, select Insert, Group, paste in the URL to your Google Group, OK
Save
Example: https://sites.google.com/a/students.niu.edu/omis351/blog

While logged in with your NIU Gmail account, visit Calendar.Google.Com
If this is your first time in the Google Calendar, you’ll have to click through a few screens.
On the left pane, select the down arrow next to My calendars, and select Create new calendar. Call it OMIS 351.
Check Share this calendar with others, Make this calendar public.
Create Calendar
Switch to Month view.
In the left pane, ensure just your OMIS 351 calendar is selected
Using the syllabus your guide, create calendar events for all assignment due dates and quiz dates.
Easiest way to create events is by clicking in the date box that you want to create the event for, then typing the event and hitting enter.

Once complete, go back to your Google Site
Create a new page, call it Calendar.
Select Insert, Calendar
Select OMIS 351
Select, Save, Save
Should have something like this now: https://sites.google.com/a/students.niu.edu/omis351/calendar
Note: It appears that you must be logged in with your NIU Gmail credentials to view the calandar, even if you select ‘Make this calendar public’

From drive.google.com, logged in with your NIU Gmail acct, create a new Form
Give it a name, and create a 2 question survey on whatever you’d like.
At the bottom of you survey, check the box to Publish and show a link to the results of this form to all respondents
Create a new page, called Survey, in your Google Site, and insert a Document, and select your new survey Form.
Should look something like this: https://sites.google.com/a/students.niu.edu/omis351/survey

Add a new page in your Google Site, called How To
Separately, browse YouTube for videos that demonstrate how to do something that you’re interested in (e.g. Play guitar, download music, dance.. etc)
Copy the link
Back Insert, Video, YouTube
Give a meaningful title
Repeat until you have at least 4 video
Example: https://sites.google.com/a/students.niu.edu/omis351/how-to
1. Save.

Just in case your interested in changing your google site to YourOwnDomainName.Com

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