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How to arrange a meeting with other members of the department using a web browser

Start Outlook.

Click on Calendar and click on "New":

Enter a title for the meeting and click on "Scheduling Assistant"

Categories: Calendar | Email | Web

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How to download and install digital certificates in the Physics Department.

Digital certificates are used by many services to secure the data that flows between systems. It you are accessing any of the services in the Physics Department that can be secured in this way then you will want to download and install a certificate. Unless you have the correct and uptodate certificates installed you may receive warning messages and/or delays every time you try to connect to one of these services. Secure services include:

Categories: Security | Web

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Basic details about the SharePoint services within the Department and The University.

University wide SharePoint

The department's SharePoint sites are now generally placed on the University Nexus SharePoint service. For details about the University's offering, please visit https://help.it.ox.ac.uk/sharepoint#/.

If you would like a SharePoint site creating, please read Get SharePoint Online

Categories: Services | SharePoint | Web

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How to create a and manage research group on the main physics website

Creating a new research group

A research group can be created by emailing physicsweb@physics.ox.ac.uk, giving the name of the group and its head.

Publications

Publications are automatically generated from the members of the group.

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An overview of the web service provided by Theoretical Physics IT Support

Theoretical Physics retains a web service for its members. This services hosts personal sites for members, as well as sites for conferences, projects and collaborations. They may be requested if no other services provided centrally by Physics are suitable.

A list of the various central web services may be found here. Some specific services are

Categories: Theory | Web

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How to delegate sections of the site

This page is applicable to people who are section administrators. Section editors can edit content, but cannot delegate content creation.

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This guide covers how to login, edit, update your profile, create news and events, and view your email on the web

This guide is for the old internal webpages only. Please see Editing your profile page for the public facing profile page.

The guide covers:

Categories: Newcomer | Web

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Accessibility guidelines for the website

Accessible web design helps people with a variety of disabilities, including people who:

  • are blind
  • are visually impaired
  • are deaf or hearing impaired
  • have dyslexia
  • have physical disabilities that affect manual dexterity or result in loss of the use of the hands
  • have cognitive impairments affecting memory or learning capabilities.

Accessible web design can also benefit many other groups of web users, including:

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Research highlights are affiliated with a research group and are useful for listing anything that the group wishes to highlight

Creating a research highlight

  • Click on "My Sections" at the top-right of the screen
  • Click "Create new research highlight" under "Create content"
  • Enter a title for the research highlight
  • It's optional but highly recommended to add an image for the highlight. To do so:
    • Click "Choose file" under "Upload image"
    • Select a file and click "Open"
    • Click "Upload"
  • In the "Body" field, enter your information about the case study
  • Save or preview your page

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Structuring your section of the website

For the purposes of content creation and editing permissions, the Oxford Physics CMS is divided into “sections”.

Each section has its own pages, and those pages can have their own pages as well- forming a hierarchy. Each section can also have different editing permissions.

Creating sections

Only administrators can create sections.

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