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Exploring Sites@Duke
sites.duke.edu è
Chris7ne L. Vucinich Technical Educa7on & Outreach Coordinator,
Office of Informa7on Technology – Academic Services Fuqua Brown Bag -‐ March 13, 2013
About Sites@Duke Yes Notes:
Robust/Easy to Use ✔ Shib Integra7on ✔ Self Provisioning (new sites on the fly!) ✔ Duke URL (starts with sites.duke.edu) ✔ No Custom URL
Installed & Tested Plugins ✔ Wait Period/Tes7ng
Insert graphics/PDF/embed mul7media ✔ 8 MB size limit Duke Themes (developed by Duke Web Services)
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5 levels of privacy se`ngs ✔ Custom Duke Tools (Toolkits Integra7on, Subsites widget)
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Use Cases
Academic Non-‐Academic 1. ePoraolio 1. One off Departmental Sites
(conferences, events, project sites)
2. Course Sites (Reading Materials, Links, etc.)
2. Student Organiza7on Sites
3. Project Sites (individual or team) – no worry of FTP
3. Personal sites (within Acceptable Use Policies)
Sites@Duke was piloted in 2009-‐2010 for academic use. Expanded in Spring 2011 for non-‐academic purposes.
Some Examples…
èA-‐Z index of sites: hhp://sites.duke.edu/websites/ èFeatured sites: hhp://sites.duke.edu/about/featured-‐sites/
DukeAFRICA (Student Organiza7on): hhp://sites.duke.edu/dukeafrica/ Duke Special Event Planners Council (Special Interest Group): hhp://sites.duke.edu/dukesepc/ TechExpo (Special Event): hhp://sites.duke.edu/techexpo/ IT Training@Duke (Departmental Blog): hhp://sites.duke.edu/training/
By the numbers…
Topics Numbers
Total # of Sites ever created 4,738
Total # of Ac7ve Sites 4,369
Ac7ve Course Sites/Sub Sites 634/1,728
Ac7ve Non-‐Course Sites 2,007
Most Posts 1,309 (Professor Murrell’s New Wri7ng Class)
Most Pages 178 (Medieval Appe7tes: Sex and Food)
Live Demo!
1. Crea7ng a New Site 2. Applying Duke Theme 3. Adding Users 4. Adding a Subsite 5. Exploring Privacy Se`ngs
Governance
1. Sites@Duke is managed by a team of staff from Office of Informa7on Technology (OIT) & Center for Instruc7onal Technology (CIT).
2. User Feedback comes from the Campus Community (including new plugins, widgets, etc.)
Feature Requests Review Cycle for suggested changes & improvements: • Feature requests received by September 1 are reviewed for the mid-‐October
update window • Feature requests received by November 1 are reviewed for the mid-‐December
update window • Feature requests received by February 1 are reviewed for the mid-‐March update
window • Feature requests received by May 30 are reviewed for the mid-‐July update
window Criteria for feature sugges@ons: • Technical fit and stability • Ability to be used by individual site owners without providing back end or FTP
access • Benefit to the overall Sites@Duke user community • Ability to make the feature available to all Sites@Duke users at lihle or no cost. NOTE: The complexity of the feature request will determine in which update window the feature may be included.
March 2013 Upgrade – Just completed
• Upgraded to latest version 3.5.1 (new default theme & mul7ple image upload).
• SEO plugin • Improvements to New User Interface.
Help & Support • General support (login problems/
technical issues) – OIT Service Desk
• Sites@Duke Training (prescheduled & OnDemand – including small groups & academic classroom training – OIT Training)
• Faculty Support (CIT); Student Support (Mul7media Project Studio)
• Visit WordPress.org and WordPress.TV for more informa7on, guides and tutorials.
Thank you. Q&A
Chris7ne L. Vucinich Technical Educa7on & Outreach Coordinator,
OIT Training [email protected]
h-p://oit.duke.edu/training
OIT TRAINING