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University of Wisconsin-Platteville Website Policy
Questions regarding this policy should be directed to the Web Development office.
University of Wisconsin-Platteville Website Policy
- Federal and State laws
- Applicable copyright, licensing and personal privacy laws
- Board of Regents University of Wisconsin System policies and procedures
- UWS 14 student academic disciplinary procedures
- UWS 17 student non-academic disciplinary procedures
- UWS 18 conduct on university lands
- UW-Platteville student bill of rights and responsibilities
- UW-Platteville discrimination and harassment policy and procedures
- Acceptable Use of Computing and Information Technology Resources
- Hours of operation
- Staff directory with contact information
- A “department” page with general information about the department.
- Contact information (phone, e-mail, office location)
- If faculty or staff have information on their personal pages that is for instructional use, then that material must be available upon request in a compliant format according to the W3C Accessibility guidelines. It is recommended however that course-specific instructional material be placed in the instructor's Canvas course management account.
- Board of Regents Policy on Copyrightable Instructions Materials Ownership, Use and Control (G27):
- The posting of intellectual property on a personal page does not void copyright.
- Content of a political or religious nature, either positive or negative, is prohibited unless for use in documented, curriculum-based instruction. In such instances, it is recommended that this material be posted on the instructor’s Canvas course management account.
- The web site resides on a physical server other than the primary web server, contains content or applications that cannot be hosted on the primary web server, and the content must be made available to the University community.
- The subdomain name is for one of the University's audiences. Because of the challenge and expense involved in managing large numbers of individual subdomains for every department, Individual departments or programs should not have their own.
- All subdomains must be approved by the CIO.
- Subdomain names should be reviewed annually by the Office of Information Technology Services. Subdomains no longer in use should be retired each year.
- All subdomains must use the *.uwplatt.edu domain name.
1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Web accounts are provided for the purpose of academic, administrative, and personal use. University computing resources are property of the state of Wisconsin and, as such, commercial use outside the mission of the university is prohibited.
Web developers should design pages that are compliant with the W3C WCAG 2.x, minimum compliance Level A Accessibility standards, https://www.w3.org/ including preparing pages that are compatible with screen readers. Developers are also encouraged to create pages that are low bandwidth sites, to allow users without the latest technology and low bandwidth to use the site. For information regarding W3C Accessibility standards, please visit the W3C web site on Accessibility. The Web Style Guide is also available for reference.
2. OWNERSHIP
2.1. University Pages
2.1.1. University oversight
The Website Advisory Group shall be made up of individuals from Communications; ITS; the Faculty, Academic Staff, and Student Senates; and administration.
This group shall meet as needed to evaluate the current state of our website and address requests and needs of university constituents.
2.1.2. Standards for University Pages
2.1.3. Images and Video
For consistency, images used on the University of Wisconsin-Platteville website(s) must come from by the University photographer or purchased from a University approved image resource website.
All video displayed on the University of Wisconsin-Platteville website(s) will be delivered from a University of Wisconsin-Platteville YouTube account.
2.1.3.b. Text
2.1.3.c. Advertising Non-University Programs
2.1.3.d. Social media
2.1.3.e. Links to Other Websites
Consider fair representation when listing products, groups, or businesses.
2.1.4. Minimum Required Pages and Information
It is recommended that faculty also use a professional homepage (not a Personal Page) directly linked to their staff listing.
2.1.5. Content Managed by Invested Individuals
The Steering Committee strongly encourages each area to have a content steward. Such individuals recognize the value of a web presence and can dedicate sufficient time in making that presence meaningful.
If a department doesn’t have the necessary resources or skill sets, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Marketing department will work closely with content stewards to ensure minimum content and design standards are met.
2.1.6. External Auditing Process
If standards defined in this policy are found to be lax, the content manager will contact the appointed content steward or department and suggest possible alternatives to current content. If standards are grossly abandoned, Marketing or ITS, and the content manager have the authority to remove such content without first communicating with the content steward or department.
2.2. Personal Pages
The purpose of personal pages is to freely express ideas, share educational information, etc. Creating content on the uwplatt.edu domain constitutes paid work, just as any use of the university property constitutes work. As such, content is subject to university standards. While these pages are personal in content, they do reside on the university web server(s) and reflect an image of the university, and therefore can be audited for inappropriate content.
“UW System institutions are often directly involved in the development of copyrightable instructional materials, because they provide substantial public resources to support the creation and production of these materials. Institutional involvement is likely to expand substantially with the increased use of information technology in the creation of multimedia instructional materials and distance education course offerings.
“The UW System does not assert a property interest in materials which result from the author’s pursuit of traditional teaching, research, and scholarly activities. The creation of materials such as theses, scholarly articles, journal articles, research bulletins, monographs, and books occurs, in most circumstances, as an integral part of the author’s position as a UW System employee. In those cases where substantial institutional resources are provided to support the development of instructional materials, however, the UW System may assert ownership or other property interests that should be addressed through specific agreements with the authors and producers of the materials.”
For the full policy, see UW-System Administration
2.3 Student Organizations
Any student organization may establish its own web presence outside of the UW-Platteville domain, but as an official student organization, the off-site web presence must adhere to the same university standards as on-site pages.
Subdomains for uwplatt.edu
Because of certain underlying principles supporting subdomains, subdomains may only be implemented if the web site meets the following criteria.
- The web site resides on a physical server other than the primary web server, contains content or applications that cannot be hosted on the primary web server, and the content must be made available to the University community.
- The subdomain name is for one of the University's audiences. Because of the challenge and expense involved in managing large numbers of individual subdomains for every department, Individual departments or programs should not have their own.
- All subdomains must be approved by the CIO.
- Subdomain names should be reviewed annually by the Office of Information Technology Services. Subdomains no longer in use should be retired each year.
- All subdomains must use the *.uwplatt.edu domain name.