Resources
Student Organization Websites
Getting Started & Maintenance
Getting started with your student group website
- Identify which member(s) of your group will be responsible for maintaining the group’s website
- Updates to a student group’s directory listing at http://fisher.osu.edu/student-groups should be sent to webmaster@fisher.osu.edu
- Group’s web editors should familiarize themselves with the group’s website content. To find out if your group has a website, visit http://groups.cob.ohio-state.edu/. Review how is the content organized, how recently has it been updated, and how often the content should be updated.
- Group’s web editors should choose one person to contact IT Services through an email to webmaster@fisher.osu.edu with any questions or requests related to the group’s website
- IT Services requires confirmation from the group's advisor or a college staff member identifying which members of the student group should have editing rights for the group’s website. This can be as simple as an email to webmaster@fisher.osu.edu listing the group’s name and the names of the group’s web editors.
How to update and maintain your student group website
- IT Services strongly recommends that all Fisher student group websites be hosted on Fisher’s web server (http://groups.cob.ohio-state.edu/)
- If you have a site that is currently hosted on http://groups.cob.ohio-state.edu, IT Services requires hosting and serving student group websites in Fisher's centralized and customizable student group content management system.
- Training sessions are available for all student organization web editors and may be scheduled by emailing webmaster@fisher.osu.edu
- A 30-minute training session is required for any user requesting web editing rights
- IT Services will provide assistance as needed with content migration or configuration of a new group website
- To update content on your student group website:
- Refer to the demo site at https://groups.cob.ohio-state.edu/demo/, which provides simple examples and detailed walkthroughs for creating, editing, and deleting pages or news entries on your student group website
- An introduction to the backend/editing tools for the content management system will be provided during the initial 30-minute training session
- To customize your student group website within the content management system:
- Limited customization is available for each student group website via the Design tab, through the use of Template and Widget options
- Examples of Widgets include: RSS subscriptions, list of recent posts, links, tag cloud, calendar of news posts, categories, and customizable text boxes
- A brief introduction to Template and Widget options will be provided during the 30-minute introductory training, with advanced training available by request to webmaster@fisher.osu.edu
- For any other questions, assistance with customization, etc, student web editors can email webmaster@fisher.osu.edu
TEMPLATES | Available in the Student Group Content Management System
View thumbnails previews (285K PDF) of the themes available for your student group. Widgets and content are customizable. Primary visual elements like the header and column layout are a part of the theme.
