Service FAQs

Faculty Sites are for the University faculty and their associated labs, groups or projects that need a flexible, online platform for university related presence that meet branding, accessibility and mobile responsive needs.

Configure your site with the site name of your choice following the sites.arizona.edu/ pattern. The default site name will be the NetID of the site owner. A URL not consisting entirely of a NetID must include a Dash “-“.

Preferred formats are:

1. sites.arizona.edu/YourNetID
2. sites.arizona.edu/FirstName-LastName
3. sites.arizona.edu/LabName-Lab

URL exceptions:

1. It must not already be claimed by another Arizona Faculty Site
2. It must not be any other valid NetID. To avoid collisions with current or future NetID’s, all site names that don’t use the owners NetID must include a dash “-” somewhere in the name. Here are some examples:
   • sites.arizona.edu/firstname-lastname
   • sites.arizona.edu/name-lab
3. It must not violate the University of Arizona’s “Acceptable Use of Computers and Networks Policy”.

• U-System websites for faculty and staff will be retired on June 30, 2024.
  
• Faculty are encouraged to begin migrating content from their U-System account before June 2024. While U-System websites will remain online until June 30, 2024, no edits to U-System websites will be possible after June 1, 2023.
  
  If you have questions or concerns related to your U-System web content, please use the ServiceNow U-System Request form.

• The Office of Instruction and Assessment (OIA) is now part of The University Center for Assessment Teaching & Technology (UCATT) and is no longer offering website hosting.
• OIA/UCATT hosted websites will be retired on December 1st, 2023.
  
  This includes websites under the faculty.arizona.edu, lab.arizona.edu, class.arizona.edu and sites.arizona.edu subdomains.
  
  For questions about an existing OIA website, please contact UCATT Instructional Technology Support.

Yes, if the lab is run by University of Arizona faculty.

You will own and manage the content on your Arizona Faculty Site.  We will train you to build your site.

At Campus Web Services, our goal is to support the website needs of the whole university. We currently host around 300 websites both large and small and our portfolio is growing rapidly. Our team specializes in the technical aspects of website maintenance, including security, functionality improvements, and testing/troubleshooting. 

To be able to do this at scale, we empower faculty members to build and maintain the content on their website(s).  We provide free, weekly trainings, email support and one on one consultation to aid you in becoming confident and comfortable building and editing your site content. 

Migrating your existing site (moving the content from one website to another) is a manual process. You and your team will need to rebuild your current website in Arizona Faculty Sites. Depending on the size of your site, it can take several hours to a few days of work to migrate a website.

You will be able to customize the layout of your site pages, the structure of your site, and some elements of your look and feel. Some elements of Arizona Faculty Sites will not be editable. These may include University branding elements, available site element colors, fonts. If your site is for a project that bridges between multiple universities, templates without University of Arizona branding elements may be available.

Yes, you will be able to add additional content editors to your site. They will need to have a University of Arizona NetID, but they are not required to be a faculty member.

• Web applications that require transactional capabilities.
• High-profile/high-impact sites that might require capabilities to handle large amounts of traffic.
• If a faculty member’s website requires restricted access requiring limited NetID login, Sharepoint sites are their best option.
• Complex sites with large amounts of data would be better served through one of the many other web offerings on campus. See https://web.arizona.edu/for more information.
• Students, as they have Google Sites available to them.
• Using website as a Learning Management System (LMS). D2L is the recommended solution.

Please refer to the Terms of Service page.

If you’re currently an Arizona Sites or Linode/CPANEL customer, and migrating your site to other hosting and needing a redirect, then please use Redirect Service. For all other unrelated website redirect needs, please see the Managed Cloud Redirect page