Practice Studio Guide

1. Open the practice site. When the privacy banner appears, try Customise, then choose Reject all.
2. Switch the language to Arabic and notice that the whole page turns right to left. Switch back to English.
3. Open a section from the menu, then open a story. Find the author, the date and the share buttons.
4. Scroll to the footer. Find the newsletter sign-up, the cookie settings and the Contribute link.

Done when you can name the parts of the homepage from top to bottom.

1. Open the practice Studio. In the Content tab, click the plus button at the top and choose News story.
2. Write the headline in English, under 140 characters. Write a summary of one or two sentences, under 300 characters.
3. Upload a picture you are allowed to use. Use the crop button to set the hotspot, the part that must stay visible. Fill in the description for screen readers.
4. Write the body: one heading, two paragraphs and a link to another story.
5. Pick a section. Leave Authors empty, so the story is signed by the Newsroom.
6. Click the validation icon at the top. A red message blocks publishing. A yellow message is only advice.
7. Click Publish. Open the section on the practice site and find your story. Wait a minute, then switch to French to see the translation.

Done when your story shows on the practice site in English and in French.

Do not change the web address of a story after its first publication. Old links would break.

1. Open your story. Change one fact in the text.
2. Open the group named After publication: corrections and add a correction with today's date and a note in English that says what changed.
3. Publish. Reload the story on the practice site and read the correction box at the foot of the article.

Done when the correction box shows the date and your note.

1. Open the menu with three dots on your published story and choose Feature this story.
2. Open the Homepage document and check that your story is now the big story. Publish the Homepage.
3. Reload the practice homepage. Then set Keep my choices until to a time a few minutes ahead and see the page return to the newest stories on its own.
4. Add one In focus link to a section, with a text under 40 characters.

Done when your story leads the practice homepage.

Feature this story only works on a story that is already published, and nothing moves until you publish the Homepage.

1. Create an author with a name, a short role and a short biography. Publish it.
2. Open your story, add this author, and publish the story again. Check the author line on the site.
3. Create a section named Practice with a one-line description. Move a story into it and publish.
4. In Sections, drag the new section to another place in the list. The menu follows the new order.

Done when the new section shows in the menu with your story inside.

A section with no published story stays out of the menu. A section can only be deleted when no story uses it.

1. Open the Pages list and open the About page. Add a Text block, publish, and check the page on the site.
2. Look at the tags that show whether each translation is up to date.
3. Open Site settings. Find the languages, the public email addresses and the social accounts. Change nothing you would not change on the live site.

Done when you can say where each public email address appears.

1. On the practice site, open Contribute from the footer and send a story idea. Use a made-up name and an address of your own.
2. In the Studio, open Pitches, then New. Open your pitch and read what the reader sent.
3. Write a line in Desk notes, the only field you can edit.
4. Use the three dots to create an article draft from the pitch, then accept the pitch.

Done when the pitch is under Accepted and a draft story exists.

Accept and Decline send one short standard email that never repeats what the reader typed. The practice site cannot deliver email, so nothing arrives. Do not attach real files.

1. Open the Newsletter tab, then open the manager. Look at the Overview and Subscribers pages.
2. Add a subscriber with a made-up address. On the live site, only add real people who already agreed.
3. Open Editions and start an edition from this week's stories. Write the subject and the introduction.
4. Add a Story block by searching a headline. Add an Ad slot block. Move a block with the arrows.
5. Open the preview, then send a test. Always send a test before a real send.
6. Open Reports and Ads and read what each figure means.

Done when you have a preview you would be happy to send.

The practice site cannot deliver email, so no test message reaches your inbox. Use the preview to check the edition.

1. Open the Analytics tab and click Open analytics.
2. Change the period from 7 days to 30 days and read how it compares with the period before.
3. Open the Right now section, then browse the practice site in another tab. Your visit should appear within a few seconds.
4. Open Traffic sources and Content. Export one table as a CSV file.

Done when you can name the three most viewed pages.