Add or edit stories

Owned by Clarissa Forbes
Last updated: Nov 17, 2023 by James Thompson
6 min read

 

Overview

Stories on FirstVoices are long collections of language content where you are able to add many pages, each with their own featured audio, pictures, and text to read along. If you need to create a long piece of language content with multiple parts, stories are a great way to do it.

All members of a language team can create stories that are private to the team. Language Administrators and Editors can publish stories, edit stories that have been published, and delete them. To learn about how language teams work, check out our information on Team roles on FirstVoices.

 

Tutorial video

https://www.loom.com/share/7886bdea451b4099a274902c1b164dad?sid=da04ffdb-e5eb-4131-b413-51d8a503f011

 

Start by logging into your FirstVoices language team account and visiting your language site. Only language team members can complete these actions.

 

Step 1: Manage the cover page

Creating a new story

  1. To add a new story, first visit your language site Dashboard.

  2. Click “Create” in the left sidebar.

  3. Click “Create a Story”.

    Click “Create” in the sidebar, then “Create a Story”.

     

  4. Fill out the story cover page form. A title is required. You can use the guidelines in the table below to figure out what else you might want to add.

    Top of the story cover page form, with Title and Author fields

     

  5. When you are finished, click “Next Step →”.

     

  6. Your story has been created and saved. It is visible to your language team only while you continue with the next steps.

Editing a story

Editing is currently available for Editors and Language Admins only. The FirstVoices team is still working on appropriate permissions for Assistants.

  1. To edit an existing story, first visit your language site Dashboard.

  2. Click “Edit” in the left sidebar.

  3. Click “Edit Stories”.

     

  4. Review the list of stories to find the one you wish to edit.

  5. Click the correct story title to open the quick view sidebar.

  6. In the quick view sidebar, click “Edit”.

     

  7. Make any changes to the story using the form. You can reference the guidelines in the table below if you’re not sure what to change.

     

  8. When you are finished, click “Next Step →”.

     

  9. Your cover page changes have been saved. You will be taken to the next step.

Guide to the Story cover page form

Field

Guideline

Field

Guideline

Title

The title of the story.

There is one field “Title in your language” for the Indigenous language title, and one field “Title Translation” for the title in English.

Author

The person who wrote, told, or created the story.

Introduction

Introduce the story and provide important cultural information that visitors should know.

There is one field “Introduction in your language” for an introduction in the Indigenous language, and one field “Introduction Translation” for a version in English.

Audio

Upload an audio recording to accompany the introduction.

Video

Upload a video to appear on the cover page. It could relate only to the introduction, or it might be a compiled version of the entire story and all its pages together.

Image

Upload a cover image to represent the story, which will appear in the list of stories on your site.

Acknowledgements

Include information about anyone who created, told, or owns the story. Or add information about people involved in recording, illustrating, or contributing the story to FirstVoices. You can add multiple acknowledgements.

Notes

Include additional notes about the story that relate to cultural practices of the community or any other supplementary information. You can add multiple notes.

Does the cover image include the title?

If your cover image contains text, click “Yes”. This will prevent the name of the story from appearing over your cover image and blocking people from reading it.

 

Step 2: Manage additional pages

After creating or accessing the story cover page, you will be able to move to Step 2: Pages.

Review the list of existing pages. Each page will show a preview image and the first few lines.

Create a new page

  1. Scroll to the bottom of the existing pages, if there are any.

  2. Click “Add Page”.

     

  3. A new form will appear for your new page. Fill it out with the new information you want.

     

  4. Click “Save” at the bottom of the form.

Edit existing pages

  1. To reorder the pages, click and hold on the up-down button on the left side. Drag the page to the correct position.

     

  2. To edit the content of a page, click the “v” to expand the page.

  1. When you’re done editing a page, click “Save”.

 

Steps 3-4: Finish and preview

  1. When you are finished editing the cover page and other story pages, click “Next Step →”.

     

The next steps about Access and Privacy are only available to Editors and Language Admins.

  1. On the next page, review the access permissions for the story. You can make the story available to approved community members, or the general public.

  2. You can also change whether or not the story is marked as appropriate for kids, and available in the Kids Area.

     

  3. When you are satisfied, click “Next Step →” again. Your changes have been saved.

  4. You will be taken to a preview of the entire story and the work you have completed. To jump back and make changes to any area, click “Edit” in the lower corner.

  1. Click “Finish” to return to the list of stories in your Dashboard.

 

Delete a story

  1. To delete an existing story, first visit your language site Dashboard.

  2. Click “Edit” in the left sidebar, then click “Edit Stories”.

     

  3. Review the list of stories to find the one you wish to edit. Click the correct story title to open the quick view sidebar. Then, in the quick view sidebar, click “Edit”.

     

  4. At the top of the Edit form, click “Delete Story”.