Overview
News and Updates:
CommonSpot: The university is in the process of converting our web site to CommonSpot, a campus-wide Web content management system (CMS). CommonSpot allows non-technical people to maintain and update their portions of the Web site with ease, and creates efficiencies for the coordination, management and administration of the web site.
- CommonSpot help and information for users
- About the CommonSpot project
- Web authors listserv
- Contribute Password Update
Official content includes publications that describe the university as a whole or are used throughout the university, such as:
- Home page and top-level index pages
- General information about the university
- College sites
- Sites for special topics (Homecoming, Family Weekend, Web publications)
- Events site
- Directories, site index, topical lists and basic contact information
The university Web coordinator (Barbara Button; buttonb@uwstout.edu) provides overall coordination of design and content, site management, advice, technical support and consultation, as well as page templates, site graphics and navigation conventions.
The university editor (Don Steffen, Office of University Communications) publishes the following sections of the Web site:
- Graduate and Undergraduate Bulletins
- Degree programs
- Admissions office
- Student Handbook
- Facts About UW-Stout
- UW System-mandated reports
- Mission and Strategic Plan
- Sites for special initiatives
- Guide and campus tour sites
The university uses CommonSpot, a web content management system, to publish the site.
The CommonSpot administrator (Steve Cox, coxst@uwstout.edu), is part of Enterprise Information Systems, and provides access to CommonSpot for campus users, technical assistance, site setup, and development of CommonSpot features.
The technical webmaster (Dan Krueger, kruegerdani@uwstout.edu), is part of Enterprise Information Systems, and coordinates custom application development, and oversees the STAR team of student web developers. STAR students create web sites and perform CommonSpot conversions to departments on campus at minimal charges.
University departments or units who wish to publish additional information may do so in cooperation with the Web coordinator or the university editor and in accordance with the Web publishing standards.