Site Configurations & General Articles

From configuring your home page, to creating content, to managing the behavior of your site, this section contains the information you need to use Terra Dotta's powerful configuration tools.

• Study Abroad: The Login Modal
The Login is a sophisticated access and user registration portal that creates a compelling entrance into all that awaits for your applicants in Terra Dotta. The login modal gives users the ability ... See more
• Study Abroad: The Site Builder
Terra Dotta's Site Builder provides offices with an easy and efficient way to build, preview, and publish public site pages. Use an existing template to input your desired text and images, or choos... See more
• Study Abroad: The Site Builder Import Guide
The Site Builder for Terra Dotta Study Abroad offers a way for offices to easily build, preview, and publish public site pages that fully reflect the experience desired for site visitors. To assist... See more
• Study Abroad: The Site Builder's Content Editor
The Site Builder for Terra Dotta Study Abroad consists of a comprehensive content management tool that gives administrators the ability to apply templates or drag and drop components to build publi... See more
• Study Abroad: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism used to style web pages (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing). With CSS, style sheets can be created that will define how different elements will appear a... See more
• Study Abroad: Site Builder's Site Content (Classic)
Important Note: This article discusses classic functionality. For information on the modern applicant experience, refer to the Applicant Experience Knowledgebase article. For information on availa... See more
• Study Abroad: Public Website View (Classic)
This page is the entry point for all users of Terra Dotta. This page provides access to the various public and secure sections of Terra Dotta. You do not require a username and password to access ... See more
• Study Abroad: Staff Pages Overview and Management (Classic)
This page displays a list of all the office staff members that you choose to be included. The list shows staff details including names, the departments they belong to, their e-mail addresses, and o... See more
• Study Abroad: System Features
The Settings > System Features page helps organize many global settings by sorting them into categories. The six tabs are labeled Applicants, Programs, Process Options, Features, Administrative, an... See more
• Study Abroad: Settings - System Features Videos
Applicants Tab    Programs Tab   Process Options Tab   Features Tab   Administrative Tab    Directory Tab See more
• Study Abroad: Account Information
Jump to Account Info Video   The Account Information Admin tool enables you to provide your account with the information that it needs to automate a number of tasks and identify itself to site vi... See more
• Study Abroad: Responsive Web Design in Terra Dotta Software
What is Responsive Design? Responsive web design is an approach to building web pages so that they are attractive and functional for users regardless of screen-size, platform, and orientation. Resp... See more
• Study Abroad: Text Interface Fields
A number of text interface fields appear throughout the Applicant Experience and the Admin Console in Terra Dotta Study Abroad. These identifiers are distinct to these interfaces. The following is ... See more
• Text Interface Fields for Terra Dotta Features
Overview   This article provides numeric identifiers that can be used to edit the text interface for use with these classic Terra Dotta features: Signature Verification Form Recommendation Request... See more
• Study Abroad: SPF/DKIM for Client Email Domains
Content What is SPF? What is DKIM? Understanding the Importance of SPF and DKIM Next Steps   Terra Dotta software regularly sends emails as part of daily tasks and routines. Sometimes these e... See more
• Study Abroad: Text Interface Customization
This article discusses the process of how to make changes to text interface fields in Terra Dotta Study Abroad. Offices should reference the Text Interface Fields for Terra Dotta Study Abroad artic... See more
• Study Abroad: Location Web Service
The Terra Dotta Location Web Service uses a public domain resource for city and country names and their longitude and latitude. It is the Geonames table of cities with greater than 1,000 inhabitant... See more
• Study Abroad: Responsive Images and Tables in WYSIWYG Content
Terra Dotta's user interface will behave in a responsive manner, meaning it will adjust nicely on screens of all sizes.  However, public site content (program brochure pages, home page, site conten... See more
• Study Abroad: Prospect Inquiry
The Prospect Inquiry feature provides Terra Dotta clients with a publicly accessible fillable form that interested site visitors can submit without first logging into the site. The office can captu... See more
• Study Abroad: Titles and Departments
The Titles and Departments tool enables the Staff Admin to manage or add job titles, departments and descriptions. To access this tool, go to Staff > Title/Dept.Admin on the Admin home page. A lis... See more
• Study Abroad: Image Library (Classic)
Important Note: This article discusses classic functionality. For information on the modern applicant experience, refer to the Applicant Experience Knowledgebase article.   The Image Library tool ... See more
• Study Abroad: Course Information for Credit Transfer
The Home Courses tool provides a mechanism for managing course information for credit transfers. Here, you can add courses and standardize course information for credit equivalency. A Process Admi... See more
• Study Abroad: Limitations of the Import/Export Tool to Transfer Applicant/Application Data Between Sites
The Data Import/Export tool is a utility in Terra Dotta software that can be used to import basic legacy data or update some existing information on your site. This is not a comprehensive tool for... See more
• Study Abroad: Friendly URLs
Many of the public pages in Terra Dotta involve URLs with long identification parameters making them difficult to provide to site visitors through email and printed materials. Terra Dotta software... See more
• Study Abroad: Configuring DNS host records to point to Terra Dotta servers
Hosted and SaaS customers have the option of providing a host name from their own institutional domain to serve as the URL for their Terra Dotta-hosted website.     E... See more
• Study Abroad: Hiding Your Terra Dotta Site in Search Engine Results
A setting called “Search engine blocking” is available in the System > System Features > Features tab which, when enabled, will add a "robots" meta tag to your site's page headers to prevent them f... See more
• Study Abroad: FSC (Home Institution) Table
The FSC (Federal School Codes) table is a standard list on the U.S. government's list of institutions and codes used for federal financial aid purposes. Terra Dotta applications use this list as t... See more
• Study Abroad: Embedding a Video
If you're interested in streaming videos on your site, there are some creative ways to incorporate them. Consider the following possibilities: Applicant testimonial videos that appear on program... See more
• Study Abroad: Data Import/Export Utilities
The Data Import/Export Utility is a powerful tool which allows administrators with sufficient permissions to export application, profile, itinerary, program, and course data. It also allows adminis... See more
• Study Abroad: Creating/editing complex tables in the WYSIWYG Editor
The WYSIWYG Editor's tool for creating tables is a simple tool that is effective for creating tables within the WYSIWYG Editor.  However, in some cases, the tables being created or editing might be... See more