MyLaw Help

Your Internal Team Collaboration Site is used for for your group's internal communications, shared documents, links, and contacts.  It is only accessible and visible to members of your group, NOT to the entire Law School community.

Your team collaboration site has seven Department sections as a default, but each site is configurable and sections can removed or duplicated:

Announcements | Calendar | Discussion Board | Links | Documents | Contacts 

More detailed instructions on adding images, editing documents, and other features are available in the Department Sites Management section.

Below is a sample Internal Team Home page. This view can be customized (email mylaw@law.ucla.edu for assistance).

Creating a Department Announcement

1. Select +Add new announcement
2. Add a Title
3. Optional: Add text in the Body - text can be formatted using the options in the ribbon
• Text can be linked by:
• Highlighting the appropriate text
• Selecting the link icon from the ribbon
• Adding the URL to the Location (URL) field, then OK
4. Optional:  Add an Expires date, which will remove the announcement from your team site on a given date - you can access expired announcements by selecting Department Announcements in either the header for the web part or Quick Links
5. SAVE

Editing an Announcement

1. Select the announcement title
2. Select Edit Item
3. Edit the announcement
4. SAVE

Viewing all Announcements

This will allow you to see all announcements, including those that have expired.  Deleted announcements will not be displayed.

1. Select Department Announcements from the web part header or from the left navigation
2. To return to the team site, select Internal Team Collaboration Site from the left navigation.

Deleting an Announcement

1. Select the announcement title
2. Select Delete Item
3. Confirm the delete request

Creating a Department Calendar Item

1. Select +Add new event
2. Add a Title
3. Optional: Add a Location
4. Add a Start Time and End Time
5. Optional: Add text to the Description
6. Optional: Choose a Category, or enter one not on the list
7. Optional: If necessary, select All Day Event, Recurrence, or Workspace
8. SAVE

Editing an Event

1. Select the event title
2. Select Edit Item
3. Edit the event
4. SAVE

Viewing the Calendar

1. Select Department Calendar from the web part header or from the left navigation.
2. To return to the team site, select Internal Team Collaboration Site from the left navigation.

Deleting an Event

1. Select the event title
2. Select Delete Item
3. Confirm the delete request

Creating a Department Discussion Board Item

1. Select +Add new discussion
2. Add a Subject
3. Optional: Add text in the Body - text can be formatted using the options in the ribbon
• Text can be linked by:
• Highlighting the appropriate text
• Selecting the link icon from the ribbon
• Adding the URL to the Location (URL) field, then OK
4. SAVE

Editing a Discussion Item

1. Select the subject
2. Select View Properties
3. Select Edit Item
4. Edit the discussion item
5. SAVE
6. To return to the team site, select Internal Team Collaboration Site from the left navigation

Replying to a Discussion Thread

1. Select the subject
2. Select Reply
3. Add your response
4. SAVE
5. To return to the team site, select Internal Team Collaboration Site from the left navigation

Deleting a Discussion Item

1. Select the subject
2. Select View Properties
3. Select Delete Item
4. Confirm the delete request
5. To return to the team site, select Internal Team Collaboration Site from the left navigation

Creating a Department Link

1. Select +Add new link
2. Add a URL
3. Add a Description, which will be the linked text on the site - if there is no description, only the URL will display on the site
4. Optional: Add Notes
5. SAVE

Editing a Link

1. Select Department Links from the web part header or from the left navigation
2. Select the edit icon
3. Edit the link
4. SAVE
5. To return to the team site, select Internal Team Collaboration Site from the left navigation

Deleting a Link

1. Select Department Links from the web part header or from the left navigation
2. Select the edit icon
3. Select Delete Item
4. Confirm the delete request
5. To return to the team site, select Internal Team Collaboration Site from the left navigation

Department Documents is the collection of files that you share with your team members. Any file type can be included.

If you need to update your MS Office files, you can do so within MyLaw.  There is no need to create a new or edited version; delete the old version; and, upload it again.

Please note the default is to overwrite existing files with the same names when uploading.

Adding a single document

1. Select +Add document
2. Browse and choose your file
3. Once uplodaed your file will be listed by its name under Department Documents

Adding multiple documents at one time

This option is available only using Internet Explorer with Office 2010 installed on your PC.

1. Select +Add document
2. Select Upload Multiple Files ...
3. Browse and choose the files or drag them to the upload window
4. Once uploading is complete, click DONE

Editing a document

If you need to update your MS Office files, you can do so within MyLaw. There is no need to create a new or edited version; delete the old version; and, upload it again.

1. Select the Name of the document
2. Choose Edit, when prompted
3. Edit the document and save your changes

Viewing all documents

1. Select Department Documents in either the header for the web part or from the left navigation
2. To return to the team site, select Internal Team Collaboration Site from the left navigation

Deleting a document

1. Select Department Documents in either the header for the web part or from the left navigation
2. When you position your cursor over the document name and down arrow appears towards the middle of the row to the right of the document's Name
3. Click the down arrow and select Delete
4. Confirm the delete request
5. To return to the team site, select Internal Team Collaboration Site from the left navigation

Creating a Department Contact

1. Select +Add new item
2. Add a Last Name
3. Optional: Add information to the other fields as necessary - the fields that will display on your team site will be Last Name, First Name, Business Phone, and E-mail Address
4. Optional: Add text to the Notes - If using Internet Explorer, options for formatting text will be available
5. SAVE

Editing a Contact

1. Select the Last Name
2. Select Edit Item
3. Edit the contact information
4. SAVE

Deleting a Contact

1. Select the Last Name
2. Select Delete Item
3. Confirm the delete request
4. To return to the team site, select Internal Team Collaboration Site from the left navigation