Accessing the Law Homepage in Cascade
For instructions on how to use Cascade, visit sandiego.edu/cascade.
To reach the law home page in Cascade, go to cms.sandiego.edu, use your USDOne login name and password to log in, and then navigate to the law site in the site selector.
Once there, click on the index page at the very bottom of the File Explorer.
Editing the Home Page
Once selected, click the Edit button to begin editing the page.
Sections
The Law homepage is divided into five sections:
- Hero Banner
- Personas
- Why USD School of Law
- Messaging
- Explore SD
Most of these five sections are further sub-divided into other sections.
Hero Banner
The hero banner is the top image on the Law website.
Use the image selection button to navigate to an image and select it to change the hero banner.
Deleting an Entry
To permanently remove an entry from the system, click the rubbish bin icon to the right of the entry.
Personas
The personas section is divided into three sub-sections:
- Feature
- Main Links
- Quick Links
Feature
The feature sub-section is the left half of the page when the page is being viewed on a desktop.
The sub-section is comprised of the feature and three feature buttons.
The screenshot to the right shows one of the feature button areas expanded.
The text, the image, the link text for the buttons, and all of the links for the buttons can be modified here, exactly as they would be in a normal Cascade text module and image module.
Editing an Entry
Click the small notepad and pencil icon to the right of the corresponding entry to begin editing it.
Form Fields
Name: Name of the resource.
Vendor: Publisher name.
URL (include the http:// in your URL): Link to the resource.
Access: Stipulates the user's access level required to view the material.
- USD Only - Must have a USDOne login name and password.
- LRC Login - Must have a specific LRC login granted only to School of Law faculty, staff, and students.
- Registration Required - An extra step which requires users to be registered before viewing the material.
- Open Access - Available to everyone.
Categories: A way for users to see a menu of different listings which all share a common subject matter.
- Tax Law
- Foreign and International Law
- California Law
- Federal Law
- Historical Law
- News/Reports/Reviews/Legal Commentary
Description: The description of the resource.
Dates covered: If the resources has a volume number based on dates.
Format: How the resource is stored.
- Full text - If it's a full paleobook.
- Partial full text - If it's only an article from a paleobook.
- Citation only - If it's only a snippet of a paleobook.
- E-books - A digital entry so that you can save it in the cloud so it's never lost, can easily do a Control + F or a Command + F to find words, quotes, or sections, which also makes it super easy to travel or move since any small smartphone can access it, and you can store notes which can also be searched without having to make a whole bunch of terrible highlighter marks all over the thing that then comes off on your fingers and ruins your manicure game.
- Audio - If you wanna get lazy about it.
Related resources: Any of these things.
Related Resources URL (include the http:// in your URL): URLs to any of these things.
Video Tutorial URL (include the http:// in your URL): Ya know, if there is one.
Recommended Mobile App (Apple) (include the http:// in your URL): URL for iOS app.
Recommended Mobile App (Android) (include the http:// in your URL): URL for Android app.
Last update (Please enter date in format YYYY-MM-DD): Date of last update.
Saving and Publishing Changes
Click the Update button to save and publish changes to the live website.