New Media Team

LiveWhale is a content management software (CMS) that runs most of the Lewis & Clark website. The company is based in Oakland, but some employees are right here in Portland. Lewis & Clark has been using the software, which is specifically designed for higher ed. sites, for over a decade. Editors can maintain some content directly within a page and some within the Dashboard. Here is a general overview…

Access groups

LiveWhale separates content into different access groups. So the undergraduate English department content, for instance, is edited separately from the environmental law program content, which is separate from the graduate school’s admissions content, and so on.

Content types

Within each group, LiveWhale divides the content into different types: Pages, News Stories, Events, Forms, Blurbs, Profiles, Blogs, and Images. Editors can view these by tapping on the content tabs in the Dashboard. Additionally you may add downloadable content, which are called Files and so are edited in the Files Library (found in the Toolbox dropdown in the upper right of the Dashboard). Tabs on the LiveWhale Dashboard Dashboard "toolbox" dropdown (not all editors have access to all of the items listed here)

Widgets

Widgets are a way to display and filter your content, and as such they are divided into the same types: news stories, events, profiles, and so on. For example, you could embed a profiles widget on a page to display a list of alumni profiles you create. The widget editor is found in Toolbox dropdown in the upper right of the Dashboard.

Have additional questions? Ask us anything! We are here to help you.

Not everyone has access to edit in LiveWhale. Editors are normally approved by your supervisor, and then a member of the Lewis & Clark New Media team would create an account for you. Once you have an account, your login is the same as your LC gmail or Workday login, so you would use your numeric LC username, not an alias. 

You may request LiveWhale access here.