Departments and Categories
CANS (Calendar and News System) can help you communicate with your audience. All you need is a "category" in CANS and output on your website.
Categories equal a webpage or Internet resource
What the heck does that mean? A category in cans matches up to an Internet-based output for information that gets associated to that category. That output could be a webpage, such as the Pacific homepage www.pacificu.edu or it could be a email resource such as PUNN.
For an example, look at the School of Occupational Therapy homepage. Their "Upcoming Events" are calendar items in the CANS database that have been associated with the School of OT category. Their "News" is made up of articles and announcements that have been associated with the same category in CANS.
Setting up a category in CANS
Check with the Web Manager, webmaster@pacificu.edu to find out if you have a category in CANS. If you do, you can start adding news and events to this category right now. If not, the Web Manager can create the category for you and make you the publisher for that category. Publishers determine what appears on their webpage or in their email newsletter.
Setting up CANS output for your department
The Web Manager can also help you output news and evenst associated with your category on your website. Any website on the Pacific web servers can be set up to use output a CANS category. It helps if your department is on the new University template--this doesn't mean you have to look like everyone else, but you do need to have the same code running your site behind the scenes.
Questions?
For answers to questions about CANS and your department contact the Web Manager, webmaster@pacificu.edu or call 503-352-2007.