Research Seminars How-to Guide

Research Seminar pages exist for each Wisconsin School of Business academic department. Links to these pages can be found from each academic department’s public facing website .  

This guide will walk you through how to create and edit Research Seminar pages within the WSB Confluence site. While anyone can view the Research Seminar pages, you will need editing permission in order to create new pages or update existing ones. You can request editing permission by emailing webteam@wsb.wisc.edu .

In this Guide:

Step One: How to Find Your Research Seminar Pages

To access your Research Seminar pages within Confluence:

1. Go to the department page you want to edit under academic departments.
2. Scroll down to the faculty and research section. 
3. Click on “View seminar details.” 
4. This will bring you to the corresponding department page.

Step Two: Log In to Confluence

Now that you are at the correct page, you'll need to login (if you aren't already).

1. In the upper right-hand corner of the top red bar, click the "Log In" link
2. You will then see the University of Wisconsin-Madison NetID login page.  (Note, if you are already logged into to a system that uses NetID, your browser may skip the login page)
3. Login with your NetID and password.
4. Now your research seminar page will have the option to "Create" on the top red bar, as well as the option to "edit" on the right corner of each page.
   
       

If you do not see the "create" or "edit" links as show below, that means your account does not have editing permission for this page. Double check to make sure you are on the right page specific to your department.

If you still don't have access, email webteam@wsb.wisc.edu with the link to the page you are trying to edit.

Step Three: Edit an Existing Page

To edit an already existing page:

1. Go to the page you want to update.
2. Click Edit, which should be in the top right corner. 
3. If the Edit button does not exist, you do not have permission to edit the page. Contact webteam@wsb.wisc.edu for access if needed.
4. After making the changes, you can either click at the bottom to update the page, which publishes it live, or close it, which will save a draft of your changes.
5. You can now view your new page on the left-hand list of pages within the Research Seminar's site

Step Four: Create a New Page

Each Semester or Academic Year, you'll likely need to create a new page. Follow the steps below.

1. Make sure you are on your academic department's top page.  
2. Click on the “Create” button at the top red bar. (Clicking the “Create” button will automatically create a subpage below the page you are currently on, so make sure you are on the main department page.)

3. Name the page by typing into the “Page title” section, the top line. The page should be named by Semester Year: Department Name.

4. You can now add paragraphs and tables to your new page.

Step Five:  Create a New Table on a Page

1. Click the "Insert Table" button 
2. Choose the size of your table, based on the number of rows and columns (You can always add and remove rows after creating a table).

3. Once the table is inserted, text can be entered in each cell. 

4. You can add or remove columns and rows from the table using the editing toolbar's second row of buttons

Step Six: Link to a PDF or Web Page

To add a link:

1. Highlight the text you wish to link 
2. Click the insert link button on the editing toolbar.
3. A box will pop-up with multiple options:
   1. To Link to a page within confluence (for example another year's list of seminars), use the "Recently Viewed" or "Search" option, and find the page you wish to link to.
   2. To insert an external link, such

Step Seven: Add Jump Links (Optional) 

If you’d like to add a link that jumps down to a section on the same page, follow the steps below. (These types links  of links are called "Anchor links" and also sometimes referred to as"Jump Links", or "In-Page" links).

Step Eight: Add Photos with Text (Optional)

If you'd like to add photos and text, such as details of a speaker and their topic, you would do the following:

Turning "Watching" Notifications/Emails Off or On

By default, any pages you have editing access to turns on "watching" for your account. This means you'll get email alerts any time those pages are editing by anyone.

To turn off the "Watching" feature:

1. Go to the page where you have editing access.
2. In the upper corner of the page (on the white background), you'll see an eye icon and the word "Watching" 
   1. If it says "Watching" that means you are currently receiving notifications about this page. 
   2. Click on the word watching and then uncheck the "Watch page" option
   3. You will now see the message "You are not watching this page"

To turn on the "Watching" feature:

1. Go to the page where you have editing access.
2. In the upper corner of the page (on the white background), you'll see an eye icon and the word "Watch" 
   1. If it says "Watch" that means you are not currently receiving notifications about this page. 
   2. Click on the word Watch and then check the "Watch page" option
   3. You will now see the message "You are watching this page"

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