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School-level feature — managed within your school portal at yourschool.deandesk.com.

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Video walkthrough

This walkthrough uses the real DeanDesk interface with the fictional Northstar Academy demo school and a calm, AI-generated English voice. Payments and outside services are not connected in the demo.
Screenshots use fictional Northstar demo data. The Pages module lets you build content pages for your school — public landing pages, program pages, internal staff pages, course material pages, and more. Pages support a visual Blocks editor for non-technical authors and a Custom HTML editor for power users.

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Open the page editor

Open Admin Dashboard → Website & Comms → Website. The console opens on the Pages tab and also includes Blog, Built-In Page Templates, Design, Site Navigation, App Menus, Media, and Marketing. Click Create Page for a custom page or open an existing page to edit it. Settings tabs use a shared save bar. Save changes before switching sections; the console offers save, discard, or keep-editing choices when a tab has pending edits.
Northstar demo: Create custom page

Northstar demo — Create custom page

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Page editor modes

Each page can be edited in one of two modes: Switch between Blocks and Custom HTML from the editor’s top bar. DeanDesk asks Switch builder mode? before switching, because switching may replace content and styles. Click Switch to continue or Cancel to stay in the current mode.

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Block editor

The block editor lets you build a page by stacking blocks. Each block is a self-contained unit (text paragraph, image, button, video, etc.) that you can reorder and edit independently.

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Available blocks

For a Form block, choose a form from the picker. Private forms still require sign-in and appropriate access; inactive forms do not accept submissions. For embedding a public form on another website, use Form Manager’s embed code.
To share a whole YouTube playlist, add it as course materials — see Courses for adding playlists inside a course.

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Custom fonts

Each page can override fonts on a per-page basis. From the editor, click the gear icon to open Page Settings, then use the Fonts section to:
  • Upload font files (WOFF2, WOFF, TTF, or OTF — 10 MB max each). Save the page before uploading fonts.
  • Pick a heading font and a body font from any fonts available to the page (uploaded on this page or in the school-wide page theme)
Per-page fonts override the school-wide page theme. Pages with no font settings inherit the school-wide theme.
Upload commonly-used brand fonts once in the school-wide page theme so every new page picks them up by default. Save per-page fonts for one-off pages like campaigns or microsites.

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Custom HTML editor

When you switch to Custom HTML mode, you write the page markup directly in the editor. The top bar adds Insert blog feed, an insert-form button, and a format-HTML button. In Custom HTML mode, Page Settings also shows a Custom CSS section. This CSS is scoped to this page only (it does not leak into the rest of the portal). Custom CSS is automatically scoped via a wrapper so your selectors only apply to the rendered page — you don’t need to namespace your selectors yourself.
Custom HTML pages bypass DeanDesk’s accessibility helpers. Test your custom HTML with screen readers and keyboard navigation if accessibility matters for your audience.

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Visibility & publishing

Each page has a Status and a Visibility setting in Page Settings. Visibility accepts more than one audience, so you can combine options. Use visibility to publish internal-only pages (staff handbooks, admin runbooks) without exposing them to the public.

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Page slugs and URLs

Each page has a slug (e.g. welcome, apply, staff-handbook). Pages are served at:
Public pages can be linked from your school’s home page, your marketing site, or anywhere else.

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Built-in page templates

Open Website → Built-In Page Templates to customize supported built-in catalog and product-detail pages using their HTML/CSS template editor. These templates keep live content such as products, filters, and links connected to the school data. Choose Edit Template, review the available components and starter designs, and use desktop/mobile Preview. Save draft keeps unpublished work; Publish makes the template live. Where a template is already published, the editor also provides an action to disable the published customization and return to the built-in presentation. A shared product-detail template affects the pages using that template. Review the preview with an actual product before publishing.

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Setting the home page

The Website → Site Navigation home page settings control what visitors see at your school’s root URL (https://yourschool.deandesk.com). Alongside the other home page options, you can set a Product Page as your public home page: choose the Product Page option, then pick the product with the product picker.
A Product Page home page works well when a single program or offering drives most of your signups — visitors land directly on the page where they can enroll.

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Manage existing pages

From the page list, use View Page, Copy link, Publish/Unpublish, Edit, or Delete. Deletion asks for confirmation. To archive a page, open its editor and set the status to Archived.

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Building pages with Admin AI

You can ask the Admin AI to build pages for you (“build a public welcome page with three sections…”). The assistant renders an Inline Page Builder Card with a preview, audience, and publication state. Publish from the card or choose Open Page Editor to make further edits.