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Upload a Story

Uploading Web Stories

Web Stories provide faculties and departments with an effective method to highlight cutting-edge research and expert opinions, academic achievements, and promote university events, both before and after they occur. These visually engaging multimedia stories allow users to include different types of material – text, images, video and more – in a succinct yet impactful format that boosts awareness of the depth and calibre of work being done at the university and helps engages a wider audience. Its streamlined creation process requires no technical expertise, while offering versatile content layouts. 

There are two types of Web Stories that you can create:

  • General Stories – an ideal mechanism to showcase research breakthroughs or accomplishments of faculty and students. Selected General Stories will be featured on the homepage as a highlight or a hero banner (and in some cases shared to our social media pages), increasing their visibility to all online visitors. 
  • Event Stories – enables the promotion of upcoming events to build anticipation and can be changed to a General Story afterwards to continue post-event promotion. Please click here for the step-by-step guide specifically for Event Stories.

“Highlights” section

 

 

All the Web Stories can be viewed by clicking “All Stories”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Select “News & Events” and “All Stories” from homepage menu

Users can also select “News & Events” from the homepage menu, then click “All Stories” to view all the Web Stories.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Follow the steps below to learn how to upload a Web Story:

Important note: If you need to edit a story that has already been published, you must first withdraw it before you can resubmit the edited version. The story will be temporarily removed from the website while the newly added material is pending approval.

In this section
Step 1 - Login Step 2 - Create Web Stories Step 3 - Basic Information Step 4 - Body Content Step 5 - Additional Information Step 6 - Contacts Step 7 - Save Setting

Step 1 - Login

Login to HKU.HK by visiting https://www.hku.hk. Hover over the menu bar and click the “Upload a Story” button from the Quick Links. Then, sign in using your HKU Portal credentials. Once you have logged in successfully, you will be able to access the Dashboard page.

HKU homepage

Hover over the menu bar.

 

Upload a Story

Click the “Upload a Story” button.

 

Login with your HKU Portal credentials

Login with your HKU Portal credentials.

 

Next

Step 2 - Create Web Stories

Click “My Stories”, which you will see a list of stories that you have created, if any. To create a new story, click on “Create Web Story”.  To create content to be broadcast on U-Vision’s TV displays, click “Create TV Story”.

For more information on creating TV Stories, please click here.

Dashboard

Remarks: Function included in your “Dashboard” depends on your user role.

 

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Step 3 - Basic Information

Fill in the following basic information:

  • Language

    The HKU website consists of English and Chinese versions. The content of the university's communications are primarily in English. Just in case you only have Chinese content at the beginning, please choose the Chinese option. 

 

  • Type

    • General Story:
      • This will suit you if you want to promote HKU research, staff achievements or any student stories. 
      • Will be displayed in the “Stories” page of the website
    • Event Story:
      • This will suit you if you want to promote an event.
      •  Will be displayed in the “Events” page of the website.
      • If “Event will be held for consecutive days” is selected, the event will remain active during the indicated date/time.
      • If “Event will be held for consecutive days” is deselected, you can input a list of non-consecutive dates instead (with start and end time every day).
      • Select the area of the event from the list.

 

  • Display Date

    This is the publication date to be displayed in the story.


     

  • Story Heading

    This is limited to 80 characters maximum. You can press "Enter" to add a line break in order to design your own alignment to be displayed in your story.


     

  • Summary

    This is limited to 150 characters maximum. The summary will be displayed in the list of stories / event stories.

    Stories listing page

    Stories listing page

     

    Events listing page

    Events listing page

 

  • Thumbnail / Header Image

    A Thumbnail image is displayed in the story listing, while a header image is displayed at the top of each story article. The best fit image size for a thumbnail is 853 x 569 px, and 2500 x 703 px for a header image.

    After uploading an image, please remember to specify the cropping of the image by dragging the bounding box, or confirm the preset cropping area with a mouse-click. You also can reset the cropping area by clicking the "Reset crop" button on top right of the image.

 

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Step 4 - Body Content

For Body Content, you can add different content blocks. The reading time of your content, which is shown on the top right corner of Body Content, will be estimated based on the amount of your text.

Remarks: "Text Editor" is initialized by default. If your story content starts from other than text, just leaving it blank would be fine.

 

 

  • Add Text Editor

    You can add text in “Text Editor” and style the font with the editor's rows of tools.

     

  • Add Link To An Expert

    If the university academic featured in your story's text has an "Expert" page in the "Find an Expert" section of the website, you may add a link to their page to increase the interactivity of your story.



    Highlight the Expert's name, then click on the icon above.




    Choose the Expert, then click "Add Link".
     

  • Add Single Image

    Images could be uploaded as a single image which will autofit to content area width.

     

  • Left Image Right Text / Right Image Left Text

    Images can be aligned to the left or right of some text. Remember to add a caption for any images uploaded. 


     

  • Add Image Slider

    You must add at least 2 images in an image slider, each with a caption.


     

  • Add Video



    If you want to upload a new video, please click the “Upload Video” button. Then fill in the video title and upload your video file in the pop up window titled, "Create Video". When the upload bar indicates 100%, your video file is successfully uploaded. You may upload a Thumbnail for your video at this stage or choose one of the generated thumbnails that will appear after your video has rendered.

    Create Video



    After uploading the video file, click the "Start Rendering Video" button. The video ID will be auto-generated and pasted in the “Paste your Video ID” box.

    Start Rendering Video

 

If you already have an uploaded video, please skip Step 1 and proceed to Step 2 "Paste your Video ID". You can type your video ID or search the video by inputting part of your video title, original video file name or video ID.

Remarks: The rendering time depends on the number of videos pending for rendering and the video file size.
 

  • Add Quote

    You may insert quoted text and indicate the author/speaker of the quote to let readers quickly grasp a key point.


     

  • Add Schedule

    This is especially useful for creating Event Stories. You can add the agenda of the event with the “Add Schedule” content block. Input the name of your agenda, topic and description. To add the next activity on the agenda, click the “Add Activity” button.

    Add Schedule


 

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Step 5 - Additional Information

  • See more details (Optional)

    Input the URL of your relevant website for visitors to view more information about the story. You can enter your own link text. If no link text is entered, it will be shown as “Show more details” at the bottom of the story.

     

  • Categories

    Select at least one Category from the list based on the content of your story.  This information will help users find your story when looking at certain categories of stories.

     

  • Hashtags

    At least 3 but no more than 10 hashtags are needed. You can customise or select from predefined ones. These will also help your story to be more easily found.

    Remarks: space and symbols should not be included within the hashtags.

     

  • Faculty/Department

    Your Faculty/Department will be automatically filled for you based on your HKU Portal login.

     

  • Select HKU Experts to feature at the end of the story (Optional)

    You can feature one or more HKU Experts at the end of your story if they have opted to be listed as an expert in our Find an Experts directory. In order to be featured in our Experts Directory, scholars need to indicate that they accept media contact via the Scholar’s Hub.

    *Please note the “Find an Experts” function will be launched at a later date when data from the new HKU Scholars Hub is available.

 

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Step 6 - Contacts

Should you wish to leave a contact for people to communicate with if they have any questions regarding your story, one or more contacts can be added by the following two actions:

 

  • Add a contact from the Media Contact Directory

    You can search for the contact by inputting the name of contact person, faculty or unit.

 

  • Manually input a contact

    You can also manually input the name, email, website or telephone of the contact person.

 

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Step 7 - Save Setting

Please select to agree to the Terms of Use. Then select the action as "Save draft" or "Submit story". You can leave any remarks for your record when saving as a draft, or leave a message for the approver when submitting the story. When finished, click the "Confirm" button.

Save Setting

After completing all these steps, you are good to go! The story will be published on the HKU website after approval.

Remarks: It may take approximately 7 working days for our team to process your submission. We will send you an email message when it has been approved.

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