Google Sites

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How to Create a New Site

The new Sites are very easy to use as a quick method for collaboration. ESS and IT Security have been using Sites to store documentation on systems and processes for quite a while.

  1. Open Sites from the Google Apps menu (the 3x3 grid of dots). 
  2. Click New Google Sites from the left-hand menu.

Side menu options for Google Sites.

​​​​​​​ 3. Select the Create New Site button (represented by a plus '+' icon).​​​​​​ to create a new Site.

 

New site template.

 

4. Choose the layout you like from the right menu.

 

Layout page.

Adding Content

  1. Click the plus signs in the layout to add content such as images, calendars, files from Drive or files from your local machine.

 

Menu for content options to add to layout.

 

2. In just a few minutes, you could have a site up with forms for others to fill out, files from Drive available, etc.

 

Google site page example.

 

In this example, the calendar and PDF are both fully visible and scrollable in the web page, no need to go to Calendar or Drive. You can also simply add a space or page where you can just type in whatever information or instructions you want.

The site can be shared with the world, only the tcnj.edu domain or you can specify only certain people to only view the site or add permissions to make changes.

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Article ID: 101471
Created
Mon 3/16/20 12:43 PM
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Thu 3/5/26 2:00 PM