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Welcome to the CERES Sustainability Hub. Before a web user can upload projects to the Sustainability Hub, they must register with the Sustainability Hub to become a member. In doing so they must abide by these terms and conditions of use of the website. Please read the terms and conditions carefully.

Since Sustainability Hub members write and upload their own project descriptions, it is the responsibility of every member to adhere to the following terms of use. The content of an uploaded project is assessed for suitability by the Sustainability Hub webmaster before becoming visible to the public and the Sustainability Hub webmaster reserves the right to edit, or in the worst case, remove material that is in breach of the wording and/or photographic terms and conditions outlined below. We also reserve the right, at our discretion, to ban members who breach these terms of use and delete all postings by those members.

WEBSITE CONTENT
The use of this web site includes, without limitation and where applicable, the uploading, posting, transmission or otherwise of content, such as school project data, feedback and other communications.
In using this web site, you shall not:

1. Upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any content that, under the laws of Australia, or any international conventions, codes or regulations applicable to the Internet, is in breach of such laws, codes or regulations, including but not limited to infringement of copyright and other intellectual property rights, or is harassing, threatening, defamatory, abusive, obscene or indecent.
   
2. Collect, store or transfer personal data on any person without his or her consent.
   
3. Transmit the full names of any and all minors or the personal details or private information about any other person
   
4. Make racist, sexist or homophobic comments
   
5. Upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any content under another persons name or while impersonating another person
   
6. Upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any commercial advertising
   
7. Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains viruses or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files.

1. As required by law,
   
2. To identify or resolve technical problems, or
   
3. To protect the rights or property of CERES and its representatives.

1. Create the Document in Word
   It is recommended that you write your document in Word (or another word processor or even in a web publisher) and then cut and paste it into the project upload box when ready.  You can type the text directly into the online editor, but unless you save your work regularly, the information will be lost if your internet browser closes unexpectedly or your computer crashes.
   
   Your school case study on the module of your choice (energy, waste, water, biodiversity or community) should include some quantitative statistics on the changes which have occurred at your school as a result of participation in AuSSI as well as information about the projects you have been completing. Use the following questions as a guide for writing up your project:
   
   1. What current sustainability activities are you undertaking?

   2. What have been the most rewarding projects you have undertaken while completing the relevant RSS AuSSI Vic module (which you are writing this case study about)?

   3. What figures do you have (eg reduction in energy use, water use, waste production or improvements in biodiversity) to show sustainability improvements in your school? For example, if you are uploading a project on energy, then you should mention, for example, the change in total energy consumption for the school per year or the amount of energy used per student per year (e.g. % change) over the period of time since your baseline data was collected.

   4. How have you incorporated sustainability/ environmental education into your curriculum?

   5. What have been the benefits of joining RSS AuSSI Vic?

   6. What are the future plans for sustainability projects at your school?

   Schools uploading community projects may like to include information on how the sustainable schools initiative has increased community participation at the school, (this may or may not be quantitative data).
   
   Remember to press the 'return' key on your keyboard twice at the end of each paragraph to ensure that each paragraph appears with a line of space between them.
   
   Please proof read and spell-check the document before uploading it as spelling and grammatical errors will not be corrected during assessment of the content by the webmaster.
   
2. Log into the Sustainability Hub
   Click on the Login button on the right hand side of the Sustainability Hub menu bar and log in using your user name and password. If you don't already have a user name and password for the Sustainability Hub please click on the register button on the right hand side of the Sustainability Hub menu bar to start the registration process.
   
3. Create/ Edit Your Project
   Once you have logged into the Sustainability Hub you will then need to click on either the 'add project' button (if it's a new project) or the 'edit project' button (if its an existing project) to proceed.
   
   When adding a new project, please complete the Title, Author and Category fields in the space provided.
   
   For the 'Content' field (where you write about your project), please cut and paste your project text in (from word) or type it in directly. If you don't type something in the content field you will not be able to save the project until you do so!
   
   IMPORTANT: Once you have typed something into the content field, click on the grey 'save project' button at the bottom of the screen. If you don't type something in the content field you will not be able to save the project until you do so! You may modify and preview your project at any time after you have saved it.
   
   The following Character limits are enforced for the projects:
   
   1. 'Title' text field. The maximum number of characters, including spaces, is 150, minimum 1.
      
   2. 'Author' text field. The maximum number of characters, including spaces, is 150, minimum 1.
      
   3. 'Content' text field. There is no character limit for project descriptions but you must have something typed into this field.
      
4. Continue Editing Your Project
   Once you have successfully saved your project for the first time you will then be taken to another screen. This new screen has contact detail fields that need to be completed for the project- all of these fields except the website field need to be completed.
   
   Once you have completed these details click on the 'save project' button- if you are experiencing 'validation errors' check that the details you have entered are correct. The two most common errors are not entering the area code for your school phone number or not putting in a valid email address. Once you have fixed the error(s) then click on the 'save project' button again.
   
   Contact information will automatically be inserted at the bottom of your page according to what you entered into the compulsory fields when you set up the project. You can go back to change these at any time in the edit project area.
   
   After you have entered all of your contact details continue editing your project content. Please see the information below on how to attach images, files, tables, links and email addresses etc.
   
5. Images
   Uploading photos to the website indicates that you have permission to use the photo on the Internet from both the person whose photo has been uploaded and from the photographer. You cannot rotate the image once in the editor so this needs to be done in another program (e.g. Photoshop) before uploading. 
   
   1. Click on the insert/edit image icon on the editor toolbar; a dialogue box will then appear.
      
   2. Go to the Upload tab, click on the browse button, find the image you would like to upload in the file directory and click on open.  Once you have done this then click on the Send it to the server box to upload it to your project.  The name of the file will then show up in the URL box in the Image info tab.
      
   3. Next go to the Image Info tab. 
      
      1. The image should be a reasonable size; we recommended a maximum size of 200 pixels wide by 200 pixels high. However, images that require high detail may need to be up to 400 x 400 pixels. You can play with this to suit the image- you can see it changing in the image preview box. Please use Photoshop to edit the size of the photos.
         
      2. Image borders can be added by putting a number 0.5 or greater into the border box.  The space between the image and surrounding text can be manipulated by putting numbers into the hspace and vspace boxes- you can see the borders and space around the image changing in the image preview box. 
         
      3. Please add a brief description of the image into the Alternative text box. 
         
   4. If you would like to add a link (URL) to the picture (when you click on it) go to the Link tab and add it to the URL box.  For the Target choose New window (blank). 
      
6. Tables
   If you need to add a table to the document you can add it to your page in one of two ways:
   
   1. Cut and paste it from a word document using the Paste from word function on the editor toolbar.  You can change the font by highlighting the text in each cell individually and choosing the style you require. 
      
   2. Create the table using the Insert/edit Table function on the editor toolbar.  Here you can manipulate the height and width of the cells, the border size, alignment and also give the table a caption.  You can change the font by highlighting the text in each cell individually and choosing the style you require.
      
7. Links
   Links can be added to text or images (for how to put a link in an image see 5iv). To add a link to text (email, website or a file which you upload):
   
   i. Firstly highlight the text which you would like the link to be attached to.

   ii. Then click on the Insert/edit link icon on the editor toolbar; a dialogue box will then appear.

   iii. On the first tab of the dialogue box (Link info tab) choose the type of link you require:
   
   •URL (website)
   a. Enter the address into the URL area in the Link info tab

   b. Go to the Target tab and choose the target type- New window (blank), so it opens in a new window and leaves the Sustainability Hub open, or popup window (with no navigation tools on browser, only if necessary).

   c. Finally click the OK button of the dialogue box and the inserting link process is then complete.

   d. Save your project (click on grey bottom towards top of screen) to ensure the changes you have made are not lost!

   e. To check if the new link is working as planned, click on the preview link, just above the save button. This will show you how the project will look when it is live on the Sustainability Hub.

   •URL (uploaded file)
   a. To upload a file (image or PDF), click on the browse server button, click on the browse button in the bottom right hand corner of the FCKeditor popup box, find the file you would like to link to in the file directory and click on open. Once you have done this then click on the Upload button to upload it to the server. Once you have done this, double click on the file (which should now be listed in the FCKeditor popup box), and it's name/ address will now show up in the URL field of the original LINK Webpage Dialogue box.

   b. Go to the Target tab and choose the target type- New window (blank), so it opens in a new window and leaves the Sustainability Hub open, or popup window (with no navigation tools on browser, only if necessary).

   c. Finally click the OK button of the dialogue box and the inserting link process is then complete.

   d. Save your project (click on grey bottom towards top of screen) to ensure the changes you have made are not lost!

   e. To check if the new link is working as planned, click on the preview link, just above the save button. This will show you how the project will look when it is live on the Sustainability Hub.

   • Anchor in this page
   This allows users to link down to a place further down in your page without having to scroll through all the writing- when the link is clicked upon the cursor ends up at the place on the screen where the anchor was placed.

   a. You will first of all need to place an anchor into the document- place the cursor where you want the anchor, then click on the insert/edit anchor icon on the editor toolbar; a dialogue box will then pop up.

   b. Name the anchor and then click OK.

   c. Highlight the text which you want to link to the anchor with.

   d. Then click on the Insert/edit link icon on the editor toolbar; a dialogue box will then appear.

   e. On the first tab of the dialogue box (Link info tab) choose Anchor in this page.

   f. Select the anchor name from the drop down list, then click OK.

   g. Finally click the OK button of the dialogue box and the inserting link process is then complete.

   h. Save your project (click on grey bottom towards top of screen) to ensure the changes you have made are not lost!

   i. To check if the new link is working as planned, click on the preview link, just above the save button. This will show you how the project will look when it is live on the Sustainability Hub.

   • Email
   a. Enter the email address which you want the email to be sent to.

   b. Put in the message subject and message body if desired into the corresponding boxes. Then click OK.

   c. Add the address in the URL box.

   d. Finally click the OK button of the dialogue box and the inserting link process is then complete.

   e. Save your project (click on grey bottom towards top of screen) to ensure the changes you have made are not lost!

   f. To check if the new link is working as planned, click on the preview link, just above the save button. This will show you how the project will look when it is live on the Sustainability Hub.

8. Contact Information
   Contact information will automatically be inserted at the bottom of your page according to what you entered into the compulsory fields when you set up the project. You can go back to change these at any time.
   
9. Publishing your Project
   After you have finished cutting and pasting your information into the project box, uploading images, making links to uploaded documents and SAVING your project, you are then ready to publish your project! Well done!
   
   Simply click on the publish link (just below the SAVE button towards the top of the page) and the Sustainability Hub webmaster will then be notified that a new project is ready to be published on the website. It will then be assessed for suitability before finally being published (made live) on the Sustainability Hub. This process could take up to a week to complete, depending on their workload.
   
   
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   The Sustainability Hub is provided "as is", and although great care is taken to ensure uploaded projects abide by the above terms and conditions and that listed links function, the webmaster does not verify or endorse any information contained in the uploaded projects or in the links. The Sustainability Hub administration is not responsible for any loss or inconvenience suffered in connection with use of the Sustainability Hub website or its content.
   
   We thank you for your support of the Sustainability Hub website and hope to see more projects uploaded to the Hub very soon!