Administrator Guide

Default User Sites

Expo LX allows you to define default sites that appear automatically in users' Expo sites. Creating default user sites allows you to give end users a starting point when they first start using Expo. For example, you might deploy a portfolio wiki and an academic reflection journal to all students Expo sites, so they can start using blogs and wikis as soon as they get their login. This will also give them ideas of how they can use blogs and wikis outside of their courses to enrich their academic career.

1. Click the System Admin tab.
2. Click the Manage Expo LX link.
3. Click the Manage Default User Sites link.
4. Click the Add button.
5. Set the desired options for the user site:
   • The name of the user site
   • A brief description of the purpose of the user site
   • The type of content in the user site (blog or wiki)
   • Whether to allow users to remove the area from their own Expo sites
   • Whether to make the site available to users
   • Which institution and system roles the user site is available to.
6. Click the OK button to save the new user site.

Default user site templates can be managed just like ordinary sites. The Manage Default User Site page provides the ability to set sharing options and add, remove, modify, reorder, and create content in default sites in the same manner as the Manage Sites page within individual Expo sites.

1. Create templates for default Expo LX sites.
2. Make them available to specific groups of users.

Changes to default content in user sites that have already been made available will not be reflected in existing Expo LX sites. To ensure that all ExpoLX users have access to the new content, place it in a new (unavailable) default user site and then make that site available.