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Thursday, February 13th, 2020
Title
Moving to the cloud
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Moving to the Cloud
• Contract was signed in late November• ITS is paying for cloud
hosting!• Focus on websites/environments that ITS
currently manages
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Moving to the Cloud
Opportunity to• Rethink offerings• Address university branding •
Address digital accessibility • Educate users: Website ownership =
responsibility
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Current Offerings
Web.unc.edu Sites.unc.eduSelf-Service WP multisite
Enterprise WP hosting
unc.edu
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Webdot multisite
WebDotUNC
Self-Service WP multisite
5K+ SITES
9 THEMES
50+ PLUGINS
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Recent Sites Created• 707 Websites (Sept – Dec)
119(17%)
588(83%)
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
Employee Student
Type
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Students
Chart1
StudentsStudentsStudentsStudents
Class
Personal
Club
Other
[VALUE] Class assignment
[VALUE] Professional
[VALUE] club
[VALUE] Other
471
77
28
12
Sheet1
ClassPersonalClubOther
Students471772812
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WebDotUNC
Self-Service WP multisite
By default: sitename.web.unc.edu
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Sample Student sites
Concerns: • unc.edu domain• Accessibility• Copyright•
Information
literacy
• ± 100 vaccine sites
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Sample Student sites
Concerns: • unc.edu domain• Accessibility• Copyright•
Information
literacy
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Sample Student sites
Concerns: • unc.edu domain• Accessibility• Copyright•
Information
literacy
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Employee
30 Lab / Center
27 Personal
23 Class Website
19 Other
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20
40
60
80
100
120Employee sites
Lab / Center Personal Class Website Other
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Lab Site
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Association
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Professional Faculty site
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Personal Faculty site
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Proposal
Web.unc.edu
Self-Service WP multisite
Tarheel.live
Self-Service WP multisite
RENAME
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Tarheel.live
Self-Service WP multisite
By default:tarheel.live/sitenameor Sitename.tarheel.live
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Tarheel.live/sitename
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Criteria for a unc.edu domain
Tarheel.live
Self-Service WP multisite
• Website must represent the university– Request a unc.edu or
web.unc.edu
domain
• Website must meet baseline accessibility requirements– Attend
accessibility training within a
semester/year
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Qualify for (web.)unc.edu
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Do these qualify?
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Questions
• Is tarheel.live effective? • Do we grandfather in existing 5K
sites?
– upon request?• How should we handle faculty/personal sites
going forward? • Other suggestions?
Slide Number 1Moving to the CloudMoving to the CloudCurrent
OfferingsWebdot multisiteRecent Sites CreatedStudentsSlide Number
8Sample Student sitesSample Student sitesSample Student
sitesEmployeeLab SiteSlide Number 14AssociationProfessional Faculty
sitePersonal Faculty siteProposalSlide Number 19Slide Number
20Criteria for a unc.edu domainQualify for (web.)unc.eduDo these
qualify? Questions
