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CONTRIBUTE GROUP During site set up, a generic non-public Group is set up to gather your user-contributed records (called User contributions: [Your Site Name]). If you plan to do targeted gathering, you might want to create a new event or theme- specific Group for new user materials to flow in conjunction with records from your organization, e.g. “Stories from the 2013 Ice Storm.” Remember you can always add a contributed record to another group individually as well. CONTRIBUTE SITE URL The Contribute module is on a different platform from VITA. This means it needs a separate, pre-determined domain. During site set up, that URL is established and will be exposed here so you have an easy way to copy and point to it in any HTML field within VITA (e.g. your sidebars, site footer or web pages!) or other external page where you want people to find it. The basic URL will be: https://contribute.vitacollections.ca/yoursitename/contribute/upload SAVE ORIGINAL To store the original file uploaded by the user as well as the display copies that are generated by VITA for optimal display. Useful for high resolution images or original copies your organization wants to add to the collection. The Default setting is No. NOTE: This can increase the agency storage, so keep that in mind as well. To change whether you will save the original or not, go to the Agency Management>Image Options screen. MAKING RECORDS PUBLIC Choose whether your agency wants to automatically include new contributions in the public site, ie. “On submit”, or after the contribution has been reviewed. See the