Help from Omni CMS

Any large, complex software system can seem overwhelming and difficult to use at first. Omni CMS is definitely a large and complex system, but Modern Campus (the developers of Omni CMS) have provided a lot of high-quality help and support materials which are available on their website. These materials are available to everyone, not just Omni CMS users, so if you are considering becoming a web page manager. but aren't quite sure what web page managers do, then you can take a look at the help material first.

Omni CMS Training Materials

Omni CMS is used by a great many schools and other institutions, which all do things slightly differently. Therefore the Omni CMS help materials can't be specifically tailored for any one school and some of the details you see may not apply to SUNY Orange. A few useful things to keep in mind when reading Omni CMS help:

Our direct edit link is the copyright symbol (©) at the bottom of every page.
What we call web page managers Omni CMS calls content editors.
You can only submit web pages for publication, you cannot publish them directly.
We are using the Just Edit web page editor to edit web pages in Omni CMS.
Justin Cole (email: justin.cole@sunyorange.edu, phone: 845-341-4402) is the Omni CMS administrator for SUNY Orange.

Videos

There are many videos available online from Omni CMS that show how to use almost every aspect of the system. Below are the titles of and links to the most useful ones to view if you are just getting started with Omni CMS. Some of these videos still refer to the old name Omni Update.

Web Pages

There is a great deal of information about all aspects of using Omni CMS available on their support website. Along with the information presented on the web pages, you will also find links to PDF files that can be downloaded and saved to your hard drive or printed for future reference.

The best starting point for users new to Omni CMS is the Getting Started with Omni CMS for Content Editors. (Content editor is the term Omni CMS uses for web page manager.) This section contains links to many other helpful topics. Some of these web pages cover the material presented in the videos listed above in more detail.