Step 12: Share with Others & Publish

Share with Others

The Share with Others setting is an important one. It ensures that your site is set to a public view, which is critical to ensure your students can access it.

Watch the following 2-minute video to learn how to complete this step.

Publish Your Site

Here it is! The moment you've waited for. Now, here's some advice. While it may seem like clicking publish is something only want to do when your site is really polished, don't fret. People are not going to flock to your site just because it is available. You can still continue to make changes to it as often as you'd like. In fact, every time you make a change to your site – any change at all – it will not appear to your viewers until you click Publish again. That is a very important lesson to learn. 

Follow these steps to publish your site:

  1. Click the blue Publish button
  2. Web address: In the Web address box, you will see auto-generated derived from the title of your site.  The letters in this box are the letters that will appear at the end of your site's URL (or address). This is referred to as your site's suffix or slug in web terms. You can leave this as is or you can change it to something different. Generally, shorter is better for URLs. 
  3. Who can view my site: Be sure this option is set to Anyone (refer to the Google support guide Links to an external site. for further help on sharing options).
  4. Search settings: If you would prefer that your Liquid Syllabus not be retrievable through public web searches, select this box. Doing so will not prevent your students from getting to your site if they have the link. They will not, however, be able to find it through a web search.
  5. Click the blue Publish button.