How to Add / Insert Media
Jayla Nelson
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32 steps
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2 minutes
Tarleton
Images
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On your site dashboard, click "Media"
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Click "Add New"
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Click "Select Files"
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Choose the image from your file explorer that you want to upload. (Note: rename the image before you upload it so that it is descriptive and not a string of letters and numbers).
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Once the image has loaded, select it, and you'll see a bar appear on the right hand side. This is all the information about the file. Click "More Details ↓"
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Click the "Alt Text" field. Make sure the alt text is a good description of the image. This is what screen reader uses to tell those using it what the image contains if they can't see it.
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Click the "Description" field. Typically the description will be used by you to search in the media library for a specific image.
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Let's add our image to a page. Click "Pages"
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Click "Edit" on the page you want to edit
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Click the "add block" icon.
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Click the image icon. If it doesn't automatically appear, you can search for it.
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Click "Media Library"
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Select the image you want to upload
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Click "Select" to submit the image
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You can adjust the size of the image by using the dots on the side to drag into place
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Click "Update" to save your changes
Documents
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Click "Media" on your dashboard
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Click "Add New"
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Click "Select Files"
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Choose the document from your file explorer that you want to upload (we recommend .pdf instead of .doc). Note: rename the document before you upload it so that it is descriptive and not a string of letters and numbers.
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Change the "Title" field to a descriptive title (if needed)
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The "File URL:" field is the URL of where the documents lives on the website
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Clicking "Copy URL to clipboard" will copy the link from the File URL. Pasting this URL into a browser will show you the document in that tab.
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Click "Pages"
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Click "Edit" on the page you want to add the document to
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Make sure you have a blank paragraph ready in your editor
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Type what words you want to become the URL. In the example, I'm going to type "MSAT Course Sequence"
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Highlight the words you want to hyperlink and select the link icon as shown
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Click the "Search or type url" field and paste the URL you copied earlier in the media library
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Click the arrow to submit the document URL
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The hyperlinked words should be blue now, and when you hover over the words an underline should appear
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Click "Update" to save your changes
