Tutorials

The LAS Framework websites provide a simple way to maintain a profile page for each faculty and staff member in your department.  Most of your information will come from campus systems, either Experts.Illinois (for tenure-system faculty members) or the Campus Directory for all other full-time staff. Profile information for graduate students is created locally on your department site.

Editing profile information in a campus-central location allows your department(s) to pull that information across all sites containing your profile. For information specific to one department, you have the ability to locally override your profile to display custom information. 

Editing information on the Illinois Experts website

  1. Navigate to the Illinois Experts Help & FAQs and click the Illinois Experts Login button.
  2. Click the “edit profile” button below your profile photo to open the profile editing window.
  3. Follow the prompts to add information to your profile page such as a profile photo, education, biography, and other information. Visit Illinois Experts Help & FAQs for more information on editing your experts profile.
  4. Scroll to the bottom of the page and 'Save'.
  5. Your profile information on the Illinois Experts website should be pulled to your department profile page within about 15 minutes, if you notice that your profile information is not being pulled into your department website, please contact las-web@illinois.edu

Editing information in Campus Directory

  1. Navigate to webtools.illinois.edu and click More > Directory to access your campus directory information.
    webtools screenshot with More menu expanded
  2. You should see a table listing your email and department, click on the email to edit profile information.
  3. From there you can navigate to each tab to edit the relevant profile information. Click the Save button when you are finished.
    screenshot of campus directory edit menu
  4. Your profile information in Campus Directory to your department profile page within about 15 minutes, if you notice that your profile information is not being pulled into your department website, please contact las-web@illinois.edu

Overriding directory information on your department website

In some cases, the information you want to show on your department website will be different than what is in your campus level profile.  The ILFW Framework allows you to override any field with information specific to your department website.

  1. Navigate to your profile page on the department website.
  2. In the gray box on the right-hand side of the page, click the ‘Edit your profile’ link to edit your department website profile.​​​​​​​
    screenshot of profile page with edit your profile link highlighted
  3. Below the yellow box describing your directory source, you should see a button titled ‘Show all Override Fields’. Click this button to open up all the fields that can be locally overwritten.​​​​​​​
    screenshot of directory source with Show all overrides button highlighted
  4. Add any relevant information to the below fields and click the Save button at the bottom of the page. The information entered on your Experts or Campus Directory profile will still be there, but the newly added fields will display on your department website.
  5. To remove any overwritten information, edit your profile page, delete the information in the relevant field and click ‘Save’ at the bottom of the page. The directory page should now revert to pulling the information from your Experts or Campus Directory profile, if it exists.