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Yes, all subdomains of web.unc.edu are open to anyone with a UNC Onyen on a first come-first serve basis.

UNC Digital Commons websites may only be used for any educational and university related work.  This most commonly includes, but is not limited to, class websites, class blogs, and professional portfolios.  You can not use this service for any personal, commercial, or non-university related website.

Each site has a 1GB limit for uploaded material. We can go beyond this if necessary, but as a general rule do not. We also have a 10MB file size limit for uploaded items. Web.unc.edu is not meant as a document repository. If you have larger files you are looking to share we recommend sharing them through Sharepoint, Sakai, Dropbox, AFS space, or some other system. You can always link to larger items that are located somewhere else online.

You can upload all the file formats: jpg jpeg png gif mp3 pdf doc docx xls ppt pptx zip swf html kml. While we do not allow video uploads, you can easily embed a video that has been uploaded to a video hosting service like YouTube or Vimeo. If you would like to upload another type of file format please submit a remedy ticket.

Yes.  The Office of Arts and Sciences Information Services offers regular classes for getting started with wordpress and specifically web.unc.edu websites.  You can see a list of upcoming trainings here.We also have extensive general documentation, documentation for the Carolina theme (the default one when you create a site on web.unc.edu, as well as recordings from past classes.

As long as your Onyen is active you will still be able to log in and use your site.  Alternatively, you can also export your website at any time and import it into your own WordPress instance, or another wordpress hosting service like WordPress.com.  Your site will never disappear, however, even after you have left the university.

No, UNC Digital commons should not be used for any student groups.  UNC regulations require that any student groups be officially recognized before using any campus resources.  If you are part of a student group and would like to create a website please go to Student Orgs or contact the union and they will walk you through the process or getting certified and setting up a website.

Yes and no. You can not install and edit your own plugins. That one is managed on the network level. If there is a plugin you would like considered you can submit a ticket and we will review it. Here are some guidelines for adding new themes and plugins on web.unc.edu.As for themes, we can add themes to web.unc.edu using the guidelines above. If you want to develop your own custom theme you can send it to the web.unc.edu team for review and we can add it to your site, or even make it available to all sites on web.unc.edu. Large departments and projects can get a FTP folder with access to the themes files for their own site. Please submit a ticket if you think you qualify as a department or large group and would like to set up your own custom space.

Yes, we back up all the data multiple times a day to a outside server using CrashPlanPro to protect against catastrophic failure.  We do not, however offer restoration for individual sites for deleted content.  There is a double redundancy built into web.unc.edu so that when you delete a page or post it goes to the trash folder that you can easily recover from. There is also a revision history of content that is automatically created when you edit the site that you can use to restore pages to earlier states.

UNC Digital Commons is proudly powered by WordPress Multi-Site.  It is a content management system originally developed for blogging, but also serves as a great simple and complex websites.  You can think of it as software that lives on our webservers.  A lot like Microsoft Word and other program lives on your computer.  Anyone can learn to use it.

This is truly a collaborative efforts between all sorts of group around the UNC campus.  The Office of Arts and Sciences Information Services (OASIS) set the site up and maintains it.  The hosting is on ITS’ Virtual Servers.  The server is maintained by our friends over in ibiblio.  The Onyen authentication piece was put into place by Mike Jennings in ITS.  The Digital Commons homepage theme was graciously developed ITS Web-Design Services and modified within OASIS for our purposes.

Primary Contact: Jeff VanDrimmelen – Instructional Technologist (OASIS)

It should be noted that while OASIS is responsible for running this project, they are not responsible for the content on any web.unc.edu website.  That is the sole responsibility of the owner of the website and all questions should be directed to them.