Campus Web Environment
OIT, in partnership with Strategic Relations, provides several no-cost web spaces for departments, student groups, faculty, staff and students, as well as fee-based advanced hosting. You can learn more about these and other related services below.
| Core Services | Who May Get It | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Application Development Support | Faculty, staff, students | Allows users to create and publish mobile and desktop applications under the CU Boulder developer instance. |
| Buff Portal | Students | CU Boulder's online student portal. |
| Discord | Students | Free social platform designed to connect communities. OIT does not officially support Discord, but has compiled resources and best practices for students and student groups. |
| Legacy Web Publishing | Existing legacy web publishing customers | Very basic web publishing on one of the legacy colorado.edu servers. Please note: No new sites/accounts are being provisioned for this service. |
| Web Express | Departments, SOFO-approved student groups and faculty | Preferred CU Boulder supported web publishing platform available at no cost. |
Recommendations
- For departmental sites, use Web Express.
- For private team/department websites, use SharePoint Online.
- For official student group websites, use Web Express.
- For official course websites, use Canvas.
- For personal faculty websites, use Web Express.
- For personal student websites, use CU Boulder's instance of Google Sites.
Other Services
- Systems Engineering - System administration of virtual or physical servers.
- SSL Certificates - Server and application administrators may require SSL and code signing certificates provided through a university-wide contract with Comodo.
