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Overview
Google Sites is an easy-to-use web builder to create websites. With Google Sites, you can easily create and publish internal team sites, project sites, event sites, or other internal sites. No technical skills are required, and you can collaborate with others to create and refine Sites, just like other Google Docs. Google Sites websites are responsive, which means they’re optimized for tablets and smartphones, too.
This article is for F&M employees.
How F&M uses Google Sites
With the launch of Experience in 2025, we want to ensure Inside F&M evolves with this new platform now available to us. Inside F&M, content management will be migrating to Google Sites by the end of the 2025 fall semester.
Our primary goal with this transition is to vastly improve the user experience for our employees and students accessing information on our intranet. Connecting Google Sites with Experience will streamline information discovery, making everything more cohesive and easier to find in Experience.
Inside F&M to Google Sites
If your department has content on Inside F&M, it will be migrated to an F&M-branded Google Site. An employee in your department has been identified, given ownership of the site, and is responsible for migrating the content to the Google Site.
If you have any documentation that references Inside F&M URLs, we recommend reviewing it and updating those links to your new Google Site when it is live. Inside F&M URLs will be sunsetting and will no longer be active.
How to create a new F&M Google Site
If you need a new intranet Google Site for your department, project, or team, you can request one by submitting a ticket with ITS.
- A “shell site” will be created based on an F&M-branded template.
- This “shell site” will be shared with you, and you can begin adding content after that.
Tutorials & Google Help
Google Sites Training
For FAQs such as “How do I…” insert a link, publish the site, add a button, add an image, etc, please review the following:
If you need additional training on Google Sites, you can request a session by submitting a ticket with ITS. Please complete the online training before submitting a Service Ticket.
Important Notes
Will Inside F&M links change?
Yes, see the answer above in "Inside F&M to Google Sites”
How will people find my Google Site?
All live/launched Google Sites can be located in Experience. If you don’t know where information resides, the best place to start is Experience. Anyone with an F&M account has access to Experience; they can use the search feature in the Dashboard to locate information about a department or division at F&M
Remember, you can customize how your Experience Dashboard looks and bookmark cards for easy accessibility.
How do I share a link to my site?
Go to the drop-down arrow next to "Publish" and select "View published site," then copy a link from the live site. If you are the content editor, make sure you are not in edit view; otherwise, you will share an editing link rather than the live public link.
I published my Google Site, but no one can view it. Why?
Your access settings may be set to “Restricted” only. In edit mode, go to the share icon at the top of the page. Under “General access” > “Published site,” update "Restricted" to Franklin & Marshall College. Press “Done.”
Can Google Site edit access be shared?
Yes. The content editor can share edit access with a colleague or student workers