OIT provides a space online to faculty, staff, and students for a number of different purposes. Faculty, staff, and students may request web space on people.smu.edu for individual or instructional websites. Departments and student organizations may request web space, which is housed directly on the smu.edu, blog.smu, or people.smu servers.Who Can Have a Web Site?
The following groups or individuals may have a web site hosted on SMU servers:
- Any official part of the university, such as divisions, schools, departments, etc., provided that the part's site does not conflict with, duplicate, or overlap with a parent part's site.
- Students, staff, and faculty may host academic, personal, and research sites at people.smu.edu.
- Faculty may host academic and research sites at faculty.smu.edu, but note that this is a deprecated server that doesn't have WordPress.
- Organizations and groups:
- Any undergraduate student organization may have a web site only while it is chartered through the Student Activities Center. This is per a 2000-ish agreement with the SAC.
- Any graduate student organization may have a web site if it is sponsored by a school.
- An employee group that is furthering official university business may have a space hosted within the site of their sponsoring entity.
The following may not host sites at SMU:
- Any organization not listed above.
- Employee organizations or causes that are not connected to official university business or exceed the employees' responsibility at the university.