CMS Training and Access
Find out how to gain access to the campus CMS.
Required Steps for Access
You must be provisioned in the CMS before you can log in. Workplace Technology Services offers online training, documentation, and provisions all users:
1. Request access to the CMS Sandbox training site
To get access to the CMS Sandbox training site, email wts@ucsd.edu from the email associated with your business systems account.
Account requirements
You will need an individual business systems account with department access before we can grant access to the training site. You can't use a group email account, a student account or an @health.ucsd.edu account. If needed, you can self-register for a business systems account.
Contact your Departmental Security Administrator (DSA) if you have questions about setting up department access.
- Find your DSA by email
- Find your DSA by department
- Note: Most students have to be promoted to department business systems access. DSAs, follow the instructions in AccessLink.
2. Complete self-directed exercise
Download cms-exercise.docx (Word file) and work through the steps of creating a folder, page, and adding content to the Sandbox training site.
When you're done, email wts@ucsd.edu with:
- your name
- the URL of your published training page
- the URL of the CMS site(s) you need access to
We'll check your work, let you know if we see any issues, and be available to answer any questions you might have. We may ask you to fix any major concerns we have with your page before giving you access to a live site.
3. Access and work in your CMS site
Once we check that your exercise is completed, we'll give you access to your requested CMS site(s).
Additional training
Note that the training exercise only covers the basics. Make sure to review the online CMS documentation and guide to web writing. If you still can't find the answer to a question you have, email wts@ucsd.edu. Make sure to include the site/page(s) you are working on in your question.
Work with your fellow site editors
Speak with your site manager and other subject matter experts to ensure consistency across your site. If you are working in Blink, direct questions to wts@ucsd.edu and be sure to review the differences between Blink and the Sandbox training site.
Report completion of training to Staff Ed (optional)
If you want, you can self-report your completion of training of "Using the Campus CMS" to Staff Education, so there's a university record. Here's how to fill out the report:
- Name: Using the Campus CMS
- Activity code: leave blank
- Description: leave blank
- Activity type: select Self-Reported Training
- Media Type: elearning/ virtual training
- Delivery Method: elearning
- Content Type: Technology
- Cost: leave blank
- Start Date and time as well as the End Date and time
- Score: leave blank
- Duration: leave blank
- Credit Hours: leave blank
- Activity Organizer: Workplace Technology Services
- Name of the presenter: leave blank
- You can select to hide the training from managers or to not show the training on your transcript. Click OK when you have entered all the information. Unless you selected to not have the training show on your transcript, you should now see the information on your transcript.
Lost access
Note: this page has a friendly link that is easy to remember: https://blink.ucsd.edu/go/cmstraining