Description

One initiative helping to implement the policy is the IT Accessibility Liaison program. This program establishes point people in all campus units to serve as resources for digital accessibility.

What a user receives with this resource

Three goals:

Honor and recognize accessibility work that’s already being done.
Equip our staff through training, networking and community building.
Scale our accessibility outreach by providing a knowledgeable person(s) within each campus unit.

Provided by

Office of Access & Equity

Notes

https://itaccessibility.illinois.edu/accessibility-liaisons

Description

The GenAI Solution Hub will connect experts with diverse perspectives to define and implement infrastructure, procurement pathways and usage best practices to support generative AI at Illinois in a way that advances development, fosters consistency and access, reduces unnecessary duplication and aligns with privacy and security best practices. The GenAI Solutions Hub will contribute to and align with the systemwide generative AI risk management strategy (e.g., chatbots on websites.)

What a user receives with this resource

This is for use by university IT teams. It features deployment and regular patching of the WebApp instance, always-on monitoring, backups and more.

Provided by

Generative AI Solutions Hub

Notes

https://genai.illinois.edu/resources/

Description

Got a design you’d like to get more folks’ eyes on? Are you debating how to assess a project in a way that will help you hone in on the answers to your particular problems? Looking to meet more usability and accessibility folks? Join us

What a user receives with this resource

Have a community team evaluate examples you share and give feedback on possible solutions.

Provided by

Campus

Notes

https://www.meetup.com/uxchambana/?eventOrigin=event_home_page

Description

Data components create ways to inject dynamic data from various sources into university web pages in a consistent format. The Data Components team, in partnership with the rest of the campus web community, develops back-end functionality for managing and administering data by data owners and front-end displays and interactions for the public website user.  Separating data management functionality from public layouts allows the creation of content management system-agnostic components that encourage wider adoption, less duplication of functionality, and a tighter-knit community around consistent, accessible and useful tools to enhance the university’s web presence.

What a user receives with this resource

Standardized back-end delivery service of data to allow multiple websites and applications to access the data using a common platform.

Provided by

Website Implementation Guidelines Group

Notes

Description

The Website Implementation Guidelines Group will focus on creating and encouraging cross-campus communities of practice, establishing best practices for public-facing websites and communicating these best practices to the campus community.

What a user receives with this resource

Community support in web best practices and resources. The WIGG comprises subcommittees focused on accessibility, privacy, design, and web development (Toolkit/Wordpress/Drupal). Practitioners in these areas advise, guide and create solutions for the benefit of and use by the campus as a whole. WIGG is volunteer-led.

Provided by

Campus

Notes

https://webtheme.illinois.edu

Description

WebTools is a free application suite provided by Web Services. It includes blogs and webpage services, web calendars, web forms and surveys, short URLs and more. These valuable online resources provide faculty and staff with in-house communications and marketing solutions.

What a user receives with this resource

The user will receive access to various accessible self-service tools such as Email+, Forms, Short URLs and more. Support via email is available to assist users with questions. Training articles/videos/blogs are available for users to learn the tools.

Provided by

Strategic Communications

Notes

Description

An on-campus shared service available through Administrative Information Technology Services.

What a user receives with this resource

SharePoint is a collaboration tool that helps groups of people (whether work teams or social groups) share information and collaborate. SharePoint sites are dynamic and interactive; members can contribute their ideas and content and comment on or contribute to other people’s sites.

Provided by

AITS

Notes

Free. Focused on graduate students, faculty/staff, UA, and other campuses.
Sharepoint

Description

StratCom supports the foundation for all internal and external communications and marketing at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. From special events and media relations to photography and social media, they’re the storytellers that connect the university to the state, nation and world.

What a user receives with this resource

Branded assets and resources

Provided by

Strategic Communications

Notes

Strategic Communications

Description

An evolving list of features at all stages of design and development, and what platforms they’re available on.

What a user receives with this resource

Up-to-date statuses of old and new web features.

Provided by

WIGG

Description

Illinois-branded web components are provided by WIGG and added as Figma assets to utilize in your own designs. These component designs are accessible to everyone on campus with a Figma license.

What a user receives with this resource

The Illinois Theme Library is available in Figma and is developed/maintained by the WIGG Designers. The designers provide branded components to utilize in your Figma designs, as well as low-fidelity mockup components.

Provided by

WIGG

Notes

To access the library, visit:

To add the library to your Figma assets, reach out to Courtney Fleeger at cfleeger@illinois.edu or Joe Brumleve at jtbrumle@illinois.edu.

Description

Illinois-branded web themes are provided by WIGG and incorporated into the WordPress and Drupal content management system framework. These themes are accessible to everyone on campus.

What a user receives with this resource

The themes are available in WordPress and Drupal and developed/maintained by the WIGG community. The community provides help/troubleshooting for theme-specific issues through WIGG Teams channels.

Provided by

WIGG

Notes

https://webtheme.illinois.edu

Description

Content delivery network for Illinois-branded assets.

What a user receives with this resource

A website with a repository of easy-to-implement code to include branded assets on websites, like the standard university header, footer, colors, graphic elements and more.

Provided by

Strategic Communications

Notes

https://cdn.brand.illinois.edu

Description

The toolkit is a collection of modular components for building websites that meet the campus’s high accessibility standards and fully implement the campus branding guidelines.

What a user receives with this resource

Fully branded web components to add to your Illinois websites.

Provided by

Strategic Communications

Notes

https://toolkit.illinois.edu

Description

Repository of various web codes created by members of WIGG and shared among the campus community.

What a user receives with this resource

Benefits of the shared service are:

Provide a platform for university collaboration
Reduce cost for existing users and make GitHub accessible to new users
Provide a way to promote U of I System open source projects, both internally and to a larger external audience
Improve security by providing a shared GitHub platform that follows a standard set of security policies
Contribute to students’ success by allowing them to easily collaborate using GitHub

Provided by

WIGG

Notes

https://github.com/web-illinois

Description

Learn how to apply the Illinois brand with a series of workshops.

What a user receives with this resource

StratCom provides several workshops, written training, and office hours to help users understand the brand and how to implement it in their units.

Provided by

Strategic Communications

Notes

Description

cPanel web hosting allows you to manage many types of websites through a web-based interface, often with automatic patching and updates offered.

What a user receives with this resource

cPanel self-service hosting is a simplified but powerful web hosting environment with a range of popular web hosting, database and programming offerings available through one-click installers or shell access.

Sites that need more flexibility and customization in their choice of web systems.

WordPress, Drupal and other one-click options are easy to install. PHP, Python, Ruby, MySQL and other custom development environments are also options.

Provided by

Technology Services

Notes

https://web.illinois.edu

Description

By utilizing modern virtualization technology, Technology Services can offer virtual machine hosting for substantially less than the cost of a dedicated server. Due to the architecture of the VMware cluster and storage, service downtime is minimized or eliminated in most failure scenarios.

What a user receives with this resource

Websites that need even greater customization and root-level access control than cPanel provides are hosted by a group with financial support for the monthly costs.

1 vCPU = $3.08 / month
1 GB of RAM = $1.17 / GB / Month
1 GB of Fast Storage = $0.048 / GB / Month
1 GB of Bulk Storage = $0.019 / GB / Month

Provided by

Technology Services

Notes

Description

A managed service that provides an IIS or Apache web server. The managed web hosting service is offered on a per WebApp instance basis.

What a user receives with this resource

This is for use by Campus IT teams. It features deployment and regular patching of the WebApp instance, always-on monitoring, backups and more.

Provided by

Technology Services

Notes

https://help.uillinois.edu/TDClient/42/UIUC/Requests/ServiceDet?ID=690&SIDs=204

Description

A tool that helps identify the best web hosting service to meet particular needs.

What a user receives with this resource

Suggested tools to allow for choosing web hosting suggested by Technology Services. Non-inclusive of all one-off services.

Provided by

Technology Services

Notes

https://findwebhosting.web.illinois.edu

Description

Amazon Web Services is a secure cloud services platform that offers computing power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality to help organizations and researchers move faster, lower IT costs and scale.

What a user receives with this resource

There’s no base cost for an account. All fees are based on service usage within AWS, and pricing varies by service. Details are available at http://aws.amazon.com/pricing/. The University has negotiated a discount off the publicly available prices; contact aws-support@illinois.edu for more information. Monthly fees must be paid using a CFOP number.

Provided by

Technology Services

Notes

https://techservices.illinois.edu/cloud-services/aws-get-started

Description

Azure app service is a way to run a scalable Microsoft / IIS infrastructure (including MS SQL server databases) without maintaining a Windows server or worrying about Windows service packs.

What a user receives with this resource

The infrastructure to run a scalable MS IIS; supported MS SQL server databases without running your own server.

Provided by

Technology Services

Notes

https://techservices.illinois.edu/cloud-services/azure-get-started

Description

Site Publish is a web content management system that hosts websites at the University of Illinois System.

What a user receives with this resource

Site Publish is a web content management system that hosts websites at the University of Illinois System. SitePublish was developed by Intrafinity and is supported by Administrative Information Technology Services as an enterprise service.

Provided by

AITS

Notes

https://web.uillinois.edu/sitepublish#:~:text=AITS%20SitePublish%20Service,by%20the%20AITS%20Service%20Desk.

Description

When all you need is a single page, the cPanel Site Publisher is the easiest way to go. Site Publisher is a simple, guided interface for creating single-page websites within the cPanel system at web.illinois.edu. If you outgrow the single page, you can easily change to any of cPanel’s other offerings, but Site Publisher is the easiest place to start.

What a user receives with this resource

Resumes
Single-page websites
“Under construction” placeholders until a more complete site is released

Provided by

Technology Services

Notes

https://answers.uillinois.edu/illinois/page.php?id=84958

Description

Publish.illinois.edu is a WordPress-based blogging and publishing platform allowing students, faculty and staff to create and publish online content quickly.

What a user receives with this resource

Fully branded, ready-to-use website template. Fully supported updates and patches to maintain security. Help/troubleshooting through “Teams: Web On Campus” (TechServices — Cpanel/PIE).

Provided by

Technology Services

Notes

https://help.uillinois.edu/TDClient/42/UIUC/Requests/ServiceDet?ID=144

Description

Sitefinity is particularly valuable for hosting groups of related websites in a multi-site arrangement, often at the department or enterprise level.

What a user receives with this resource

Sitefinity is a web content management system that hosts websites at the University of Illinois System. Progress supports Sitefinity and licenses it to campus. For more information, see https://www.progress.com/sitefinity-cms.

Provided by

Illinois System

Notes

Description

The university brand website has various guidelines and resources for units to use a unified brand that furthers our university mission. The guidelines include web-related guidance, such as the campus web header and footer recommendation.

What a user receives with this resource

The user will receive access and guidance around brand implementation and practices — messaging, design and web. The user may download templates/files to use in their work and seek out training opportunities (virtual/in-person).

Provided by

Strategic Communications

Notes

https://cdn.brand.illinois.edu

Description

Cookie banner scripts: The Privacy Team can offer guidance on cookie banners’ compliance with international privacy laws (e.g., GDPR).

What a user receives with this resource

The cookie banner must appear on all campus websites. Links and instructions are provided through the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs.

Provided by

Office of the CIO IPC

Notes

Website Cookies and Forms – EVPAA (uillinois.edu)

Description

Cybersecurity, Reporting and responding to compromised websites, servers, services, applications, solutions, and other assets for users who have opted to have the CSOC monitor their Servers/Endpoints.

https://answers.uillinois.edu/illinois/internal/56730

What a user receives with this resource

Vulnerability Scanning:
Security, Vulnerability Scanning Program, General Information https://answers.uillinois.edu/illinois/internal/89291
Qualys:
Qualys, Access for Vulnerability Scanning and Reporting https://answers.uillinois.edu/illinois/internal/108152
Security Development:
Cybersecurity, Code Risk Discussion Questions https://answers.uillinois.edu/illinois/internal/106153
Crowdstrike:
Endpoint Detection and Response services for protecting endpoints from various threats, such as malware, ransomware, malicious code, etc. CrowdStrike provides sensors for our endpoints to detect and help protect against threats rapidly.
Endpoint Security, CrowdStrike, What is CrowdStrike? https://answers.uillinois.edu/illinois/internal/93944
Endpoint Security, CrowdStrike, Is CrowdStrike Installed? https://answers.uillinois.edu/illinois/internal/102815

Provided by

Office of the CIO

Notes

Securitysupport@illinois.edu is the main point of contact for anything cybersecurity-related. If there is a breach or any sort of Cybersecurity emergency, use security@illinois.edu

Description

We offer consultation services to assist IT professionals in securing their web servers. Our services cover topics such as security best practices, vulnerability management and mitigations and code consultation for secure and resilient development practices.

What a user receives with this resource

Assistance with many security topics ranging from best practices to vulnerability management.

Provided by

Office of the CIO

Notes

In addition to our other offerings, Security Engineering and Security Developers both offer consultation services. These can be started with a simple email to securitysupport@illinois.edu.

Description

The OWASP Top 10 Framework is designed to help provide best practices for web server security.

What a user receives with this resource

Best practices for keeping web servers and services safe!

Provided by

https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten

Notes

Description

The campus Website Management Consulting Service will guide departments in managing their websites and ensuring they meet the university guidelines for marketing and branding, accessibility, privacy and security. The Consulting Service will accomplish this by connecting client needs to campus resources. Additionally, the Consulting Service will guide best practices regarding website management, such as:

Defining a web management plan that includes current use cases and future needs
Conducting content and website inventories
Defining information architecture structure
Identifying website management support roles

What a user receives with this resource

The liaisons providing the Consulting Service will guide colleges and units that wish to migrate off platforms provided by vendors external to campus onto campus-provided resources or from one campus-provided service to another.

Provided by

Technology Services

Description

cPanel and CMS Support – Field Consulting

Webservices and Applications

The Field Consulting team supports departmental CMS and web presences, including:

Full Server support – Hardware, OS, and web services, and web applications. This has been both in Windows and Linux environments, LAMP stacks and IIS
Virtual Server Support- OS, and web services, and web applications. This has been both in Windows and Linux environments, LAMP stacks and IIS
CMS Systems on managed servers – including Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla
cPanel hosted CMS – Drupal and WordPress
AWS Hosted CMS – Drupal (We later migrated this to cPanel to save the department money) 

What a user receives with this resource

CMS Support:

Mange the platform and updates and patches
Lock down the service – Moving login page, moving/hiding log folders, audit user accounts, utilize AD authentication for uses whenever possible, implement back-ups of service to allow roll-back or recovery if necessary.
Update modules and other add-ons and monitor the OS system and CMS activity logs to make sure there are no exploit attempts (SQL Bombs, configure files visible or readable) or un-authorized logins on the CMS. 
Remove unnecessary accounts, or unused modules or add-on, to block that avenue of attack. 
Help migrate to newer versions of the platform.
Simple code CSS and PHP edits, or help to troubleshoot coding issues

Provided by

Technology Services

Notes

http://go.illinois.edu/FCFeedback

Where we cannot help:

Web site development
Module or Theme development
Migrations from one platform to another (e.g.: Drupal to WordPress)
Any advanced coding 
Restoring a website if the group decided not to have back-ups or if they ignore best practices that have been recommended to them.