SNO Dashboard Items Explained
SNO Dashboard: View or change important information about your site, including billing and adviser contact information.
- Dashboard: Access support quick links, view links to our recent newsletters, view your current subscriptions, and see your progress towards Distinguished Sites Badges.
- Billing: View past and current invoices, which have clickable links to pay by credit card and download your invoices, view subscriptions, view and change your primary billing contact.
- Email Preferences: Use “Subscribe to Emails” box to sign up to our newsletter email list, change the email address that receives communications about any site maintenance, see which emails you are currently set to receive.
- Contact Info: See or change the adviser contact for your site. Please update adviser information here if your publication’s adviser changes. This helps us keep our records updated and will switch the adviser user account on your site to the new adviser and send them login credentials.
SNO Support: View past support tickets, respond to ongoing tickets, create new support tickets, and click the Instructions & Tutorials button to get to our support site. You can also email questions to support@snosites.com.
SNO Training: View if you have available trainings or the Unlimited Training subscription, book or order training sessions and consulting services. Link to our support site, journalism curriculum, and past SNO Reports. Register for Webinars when they are available. Use the Add-ons & Upgrades Order Form to order an individual training session or the Unlimited Training Subscription.
SNO FLOW: Link to your FLOW account if your school has one. If not, use this tab to learn more about SNO FLOW and start a free one-month trial of FLOW. Use the Add-ons & Upgrades Order Form to order FLOW for your school.
SNO Mobile App: Learn more about our Student News Source apps, and sign up for a free trial. Use the Add-ons & Upgrades Order Form to order FLOW for your school.
The Source App: You'll see this if your school already subscribes to our Source app. Set/change your options for your Student News Source App.
SNO Badges: Learn about our SNO Distinguished Sites badges, and submit your site/content to earn your badges.
SNO Analytics: View your Site’s analytics. Information in Site Analytics is generated from Google Analytics.
- Site Analytics: View overall analytics for your site here.
- Most Viewed Stories: View Story Page analytics here.
- Most Viewed URLs: View analytics for static pages here.
- Trending Stories Widget Preview: View and change settings for your Trending Stories widget.
- Google Analytics Access: Grant you or your staff access to your site’s Google Analytics account. Access to your Google Analytics Dashboard.
- Maps: View page views by state.
Stories: View a list of stories on your site. Add, edit, or delete stories.
- Add Story: Create a new story.
- Story Categories: View, create, edit, or delete categories.
- Tags: View, create, edit, or delete tags.
Live coverage: Add updates to stories with Live Coverage activated. Live Coverage is part of our Site Booster Bundle.
Infoboxes: Create an infobox here. Once created, you can place a flipbook into stories or pages using the SNO Story Element: Infobox.
Staff Profiles: Create bios with pictures and staff titles for your staff members. Profiles created here will appear on your Staff page. Stories whose writer or photographer credits match the name in the profiles exactly will automatically populate on the corresponding staff profile.
- Add New: create a new staff profile.
- Staff Names: View, add, edit, or delete names of staff that have been added in writer or photographer credit fields. Anything added to a credit field will create an associated staff name and page for content, regardless if there is a staff profile with that name.
- Staff Years: View, create, edit, or delete years or custom groups for your staff page. Staff profiles will appear on the staff page of any staff years they have checked on the bottom right of their staff profiles. You can adjust the staff year/custom group shown defaultly on your staff page in Design Options > Staff Page > bottom of first column.
- Staff Profile Order: View or change the order that staff groups and staff profiles are displayed on your staff page.
Announcements: Add content that will scroll across your marquee (a.k.a scrolling news ticker). You must have a marquee element in your header or footer set to display Announcements. This element was previously called Breaking News.
Pages: View all of the static pages on your site. Create new pages, edit existing pages, or delete pages.
Media: View and edit all of the media on your site.
Comments: View, approve, and/or delete comments.
Sports Scores: View, add, and edit games and sports scores. Add scores to any widget area using the SNO Sports Score Carousel.
Game Scheduler: Part of the Site Booster Bundle. View, add, edit, or delete games, sports, and seasons. Import game schedules using a CSV file.
Athlete Roster: Part of the Site Booster Bundle. View, add, edit, or delete athletes. Athletes will appear in rosters on the individual sports pages of your Sports Center.
Standings: Part of the Site Booster Bundle. View, add, edit, or delete standings for your sports.
SNO Site Booster: See if your site has the Site Booster Bundle and learn about its tools.
ImageLinks: Part of the Site Booster Bundle. View, create, and edit ImageLinks here. Use the Add SNO Story Element button to add your ImageLink to a story or page.
Timelines: Part of the Site Boost Bundle. View, create, and edit Timelines here. Use the Add SNO Story Element button to add your Timeline to a story or page.
SNO Ads: Activate/deactivate SNO Ads and ad areas. Set different filler images to direct your advertisers to SNOAds.com. This is NOT where you upload your own ad images. Learn how to upload your own homepage and sidebar ads and leaderboard and footer ads.
SNO Polls: Create a SNO Poll. Once you have created a poll here, you can use the SNO Poll widget to display it in any widget area on your site, or the SNO Story Element: SNO Poll to add the poll to a story or page.
SNO Tests: Part of the Site Booster Bundle. View, create, edit, or delete SNO Tests. Once created, use the SNO Test widget to add your test to a widget area, or use the SNO Story Element: Test to add it to a story or page.
SNO Quizzes: Part of the Site Booster Bundle. View, create, edit, or delete SNO Quizzes. Use the SNO Quiz widget to display a created quiz in a widget area, or the SNO Story Element: Quiz to add to a story or page.
SNO Infographics: Part of the Site Booster Bundle. View, create, edit, and delete infographics here. Use the SNO Infographic widget to place your created infographic in any widget area or the SNO Story Element: Infographic to place it in a story or page.
SNO Flipbooks: Part of the Site Booster Bundle. View, create, edit, or delete a PDF flipbook. Use the SNO PDF flipbook widget to place your created flipbook in any widget area, or the SNO Story Element: PDF Flipbook to place it in a story or on a page.
SNO Ad Manager: Part of the Site Booster Bundle.
- Manage Ads: View, create, edit, or delete ads.
- Create Ad: Create a new ad.
- Ad Groups: View, edit, add, or delete ad groups.
- Stats: In the Stats Dashboard, view all-time ad stats. In the Custom Reports tab, view detailed reports by ad and date range.
Appearance: Adjust the design elements on your site.
- SNO Design Options: Adjust the majority of design options on your site here.
- Master Colors: See all of the colors used on your site and where they are used. You are able to adjust colors here, but we recommend you adjust colors in the other design areas of your site.
- Widgets: Access the Widget Control Panel to add/adjust your widgets and their settings.
- Menus: View and edit your navigation menus here.
- Customize Live: Another option for editing your widgets.
- Design Backup: Create or restore a design backup of your site.
Plugins: View, activate, deactivate, add, or delete plugins. If you choose to install a third-party plugin, please read the instructions carefully, as we are not able to provide support regarding third-party plugins.
Users: View, add, or edit user accounts.
Tools:
- Import: Import content on to your site with an XML file.
- Export: Create an XML file of the content on your site.
- Export Personal Data: create a ZIP file of known data for a given user.
- Erase Personal Data: Delete or anonymize data for a given user.
Settings:
- General: Adjust your site title, tagline, administration email address, new user default role, site language, timezone, date format, time format, and day to start the week.
- Reading: Here you can adjust your RSS feed to show the full text of a story or an excerpt. You can also check a box to discourage search engines from indexing your site.
- Discussion: Adjust settings related to comments.
- Permalinks: Adjust structure of your permalinks.
- Maintenance: Activate/Deactivate Maintenance mode.
SNO Donate: Activate/deactivate SNO donate on your site, adjust donation settings, and view donations received.
Forms: Part of our Site Boost Bundle. View, create, edit, or delete forms here. View form responses, edit notifications and other settings for forms.