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UIS Student Websites

The name of the student web server is students.uis.edu. The space allotted for each site is 100 megabytes. All registered students can request a website by calling the Technology Support Center at [217] 206.7357 or by sending an email from your UIS mail account to techsupport@uis.edu or submitting a webform via this link -

https://webtools.uiuc.edu/formBuilder/OrganizationSecure?id=4679899

Websites are created Monday - Fridays (requests made late friday or over
the weekend will be created the following Monday).

  • Please review the UIS Campus Web Policy for information pertaining to procedures and guidelines for web publishing.
  • For specific guidelines developed for student-created websites that reside on UIS servers, please review the UIS Web Policy - Addendum.

NOTE FOR FACULTY:
For those instructors whose students will need to have a student website to fulfill their class requirements, please submit your class roster to techsupport@uis.edu or contact your students and have them submit a request via one of the methods above.

The address of a student's site is the student's NetID.
[ex: http://students.uis.edu/htarr01s].

 

Updating Student Web Sites

Option 1: On campus, copy or save pages

  1. Map a drive to your web directory share.

    Right click on the Network Neighborhood or Network Places icon on your desktop and click on Map Network Drive
    Or NT/2000 users left click on Start button -> Programs -> Windows Explorer -> Tools-> Map Network Drive
    XP user's left click Start button -> right My Computer ->left click Map Network Drive
    In the Path or Folder field type \\uis10\sweb

  2. Locate the directory that is the same name as your netid on the mapped drive.
  3. Copy or Save web pages to your netid directory located on the mapped drive.

 

Option 2: FTP

  1. Open or connect [depending on what ftp client you are using] to students.uis.edu.
  2. Enter as the User the account that has permission to update the site. [UIS Network Id in the form uisad\netid and password is netid password].

    You will automatically be in your web directory and can put or transfer files there.

 

 

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