University of Michigan - Flint

Faculty and staff now have the ability to create and maintain a blog hosted on university servers.  To create or view the blogs, please visit http://blogs.umflint.edu.  For more information on the blog project, please visit the Blogs Initiative page.

Currently students can not create blogs hosted on university servers, but they can link to personal blogs hosted on other sites through the Homepage Gallery.

For large projects and other university related needs current UM-Flint faculty, staff and student organizations can utilize the CD/DVD duplication service provided by ITS.  For more information please refer to the CD/DVD Duplication homepage. 

Students, faculty, and staff, and students can create personal webpages using space provided by the university on their H: drive.  For information on creating your personal webpage please refer to these What is Flyers and Quicknotes:

• What is your Personal Homepage?
• QN #101 - How to use Personal Homepages
• QN #44 - Using Fetch FTP for Macintosh
• QN #54 - Installing SmartFTP for Windows

For additional information on how to create a personal webpage hosted by the university, please visit the Homepage Gallery FAQ page.

Located in room 207C of the Murchie Science Building (inside the ITS suite at 207 MSB), the ITS Technology Center provides many valuable video and multimedia editing tools tools for the campus community.  The room can be used by any student, faculty, or staff member who has a campus-related project to complete. 

Complete details are available on the ITS Technology Center page.

ITS is currently working to implement podcasting in both online and on-campus classes.  For more information on the current state of the project please visit the Podcasting Initiative page.

The ITS webmaster, in conjunction with University Relations Department content advisors, provides assistance for departmental web pages. 

The Content Management System (CMS) should be used for creating web pages within the www.umflint.edu domain.  Instructions for using the CMS and style guides can be found at http://www.umflint.edu/webguide. 

Web-based forms and database development is another area where several units within ITS can offer expertise and assistance.  Please consult the Database Development and Assistance service at http://www.umflint.edu/its/services/database.htm.

Department intranet and committee sites are available at http://portal.umflint.edu which utilizes Microsoft Sharepoint technology. 

Faculty, staff, and student organizations can also request web page space on the Spruce (unix) server.  The address for these faculty and staff pages is http://www.umflint.edu/~uniqname.

The Web Page Request Form is available at http://www.umflint.edu/its/services/forms/webpage_request.htm.