Pass It Down

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Everything you Need for Building in Pass It Down

Use tags and titles to provide easy access to and organize your assets

How to Add a Tag and/or Title to an Asset

Pass It Down Basics

Choose how you wish to order your stories

How to Change the Order in which Stories Appear in your Exhibit

Our Timeline template makes it easy to create an engaging Timeline exhibit in minutes.

Design Template: Timeline

Showcase all of your digital collections and stories with this award-winning template.

Design Template: David

Information about the various Pass It Down templates and how to optimize them

Template Library

Use these tips when choosing the best images for your header photos in the Timeline template and the Digital Collections template

How to choose ideal header photos for Timelines and Digital Collections exhibits.

How to Delete a Collection

A guide to setting up User-Generated Content in your exhibits

How to Enable User-Generated Content

This article explains how to review and approve or deny user-submitted content once it has been enabled.

How to Review, Approve (or Deny), and Publish User-Submitted Content

Change the map focus of your exhibit to better fit your stories

How to Edit the Map Focus in your Exhibits

With Pass It Down, uploading a photo is simple and easy.

How to upload a photo

See your exhibit as your viewers will while they are being built

How to View your Exhibits as you Build them

A guide to the minimum number of stories per template to provide the best experience to your visitors

How to Upload a Photo to a Story

Check out our tutorial for how to upload a video and a few tips and tricks to improve your visitors experiences with video.

How to upload a video

Place your story with its related content

How to Add a Story to a Collection

Focus the map around where your stories occur

How to Set the Focus of the Map in your Exhibits (Map Center Address & Map Zoom)

Enhance your story through adding PDF-format content

How to Add a PDF to a Story

Help your viewers place your story in its geographic context

How to Add a Location to your Story

Change your exhibit's map colors at any point after the exhibit's creation

How to Edit your Exhibit's Map Colors

How to Delete an Exhibit

Tell your readers what each exhibit is about

How to Give your Exhibit a Title

Add a photo to represent your exhibit to your audience

How to Choose a Cover Image

Edit pre-existing content, add new media, and update your stories instantly.

How to Edit a Story

How to Add a Tag to your Story

Pass It Down makes it simple and easy to add your metadata to each story.

How to Add Metadata to your Story

Tell your viewers what each story is about

How to Give your Story a Title

Pick map colors that complement your exhibit's color scheme

How to Choose the Color of the Map in Timeline

Pass It Down makes it simple to publish your stories to your audience. Learn how.

How to Publish your Story

Engage another of your audience's senses with audio content!

How to Upload Audio to your Story

Help your viewers place your stories into historical context

How to Add a Date to your Story

Enhance your story through the addition of a video

How to Upload a Video to a Story

How to Add a Caption

Enhance your story with content from YouTube

How to Add a YouTube Video to a Story

Flesh out your platform by adding a story to multiple collections and sub-collections.

How to Add a Story to Multiple Collections

Organize your stories with even more specificity

How to Create a Sub-Collection when Creating a Collection

Create Collections to sort and organize your stories

How to Create a Collection

Highlight and feature stories to drive audience engagement.

How to Feature a Story

How to Give your Story a Short Description

Want to add a story you have already created to a new collection and sub-collection?

How to Edit a Story to Add it to a Collection and a Sub-Collection

Choose the map color scheme that best fits your aesthetic

How to Choose the Color of the Map in the Squares Template

Change your exhibit's colors to better fit your organization or exhibit theme's palette.

How to Change the Primary and Secondary Colors of your Exhibit

All the information you need as you start building in Pass It Down

Getting started with Pass It Down

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