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Arizona Faculty Sites Information Session

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Topics

  • What are Arizona Faculty Sites
  • Cost
  • Eligibility
  • What does Arizona Faculty Sites offer?
  • Features
  • Limitations
  • Services provided by Campus Web Services
  • Client Responsibilities
  • Site url
  • Request an Arizona Faculty Site
  • Request support for the website
  • Questions

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Arizona Faculty Sites are external-facing public websites that are a part of the University’s web ecosystem. They are designed to leverage the University’s reputation & infrastructure while being flexible enough to accommodate your unique needs and goals as a faculty member.

These are WordPress sites managed by CampusPress which is designed for higher education websites

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Arizona Faculty Sites | THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

Testimonial

“I am extremely delighted to have my website appear on Arizona Faculty Sites. The combination of a clean, professional appearance, the flexibility and possibilities for creative website design, the linked presentation of my personal accomplishments with the outward-facing institutional identity of the University of Arizona, and (at the same time) the ease of learning how to use the provided website design tools — all of these make for an impressive presence on the web.”

– Dr. Ronald Breiger

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Website Cost & Renewal

This will be an annually renewed, free service.

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Eligibility

Faculty Sites are for University faculty and their associated labs, groups or projects that need a flexible, online platform for university related presence that meet branding, accessibility and mobile responsive needs. 

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What does Arizona Faculty Sites Offer?

  • Secure sites
  • Single Sign On (SSO authentication) for site editors
  • Managed, curated theme which follows the University of Arizona brand guidelines.
  • A curated list of available WordPress plugins to meet common use cases.
  • 24/7 priority email support.
  • Site backups and full restoration of sites in less than 24hrs.
  • Weekly training to get started.

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Arizona Faculty Sites Features

  • Accessible and mobile responsive
  • Forms
  • Documents, media libraries
  • Image galleries
  • Embedding of media (videos, etc.)
  • Event calendars
  • Google analytics
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Social sharing (Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.)

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Limitations/Not Suitable for:

  • Web applications that require transactional capabilities.
  • High-profile/high-impact sites that might require capabilities to handle large amounts of traffic.
  • If a faculty member’s website requires restricted access requiring limited NetID login, Sharepoint sites are their best option.
  • Complex sites with large amounts of data would be better served through one of the many other web offerings on campus. See https://web.arizona.edu/ for more information.
  • Students, as they have Google Sites available to them.
  • Using website as a Learning Management System (LMS). D2L is the recommended solution.

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Service Provided by Campus Web Services

  • Manage the relationship with CampusPress
  • Act as the Super Admins that manage the network
  • Provide the Initial starter website configured on the Arizona Faculty Sites network.
  • Configure your site with the site name of your choice following the sites.arizona.edu/<yournetid> pattern.

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  • Building the site and making all content updates to their site.
  • Ensuring that the content remains up to date and relevant.
  • Affirmatively confirming within the first 90 days of each new academic year that they wish to keep the website active.
  • Notifying Campus Web Services immediately if any evidence of a security breach is discovered, such as: hacking, defacement or denial of service attacks.
  • Ensuring no regulated data is added or collected on the website.

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Client/Site Owner Responsibilities:

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Site url:

Configure your site with the site name of your choice following the sites.arizona.edu/ pattern. The default site name will be the NetID of the site owner, but any other site name can be requested with the following exceptions:

    • It must not already be claimed by another Arizona Faculty Site
    • It must not be any other valid NetID. To avoid collisions with current or future NetID’s, all site names that don’t use the owners NetID must include a dash “-” somewhere in the name. Here are some examples:
      • sites.arizona.edu/firstname-lastname
      • sites.arizona.edu/name-lab
    • It must not violate the University of Arizona’s “Acceptable Use of Computers and Networks Policy”.

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Redirecting old website url to new Arizona Faculty Sites:

Website redirects are managed by Managed Cloud Services team. The redirect consultation request can be submitted here.

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Request an Arizona Faculty Site:

Request Support for an Arizona Faculty Site:

CampusPress will provide direct, 24/7 priority

email support from their support staff.

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  • Email at contact@campuspress.com
  • Use the Need Help button in the dashboard
  • Submit a ticket through their site here: https://campuspress.com/docs/support-ticket/

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Thank you

Sanjana Nikolich-Singh

Program Manager Arizona Sites

Arizona Faculty Sites | THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

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