Managing Senior Design Sites

These are instructions for managing senior design sites.

Components

  • A role account, sponsored by the faculty advisor for COMS 402C, that has permission to create new sites, add netids to sites, and edit sites.
  • A site creation form. Only the role account has access to this form.
  • A CS Senior Design website (this site) that describes the course.
  • Individual sites, one per project.

Creating a Site

  1. Using the role account, log into https://sites.iastate.edu/login
  2. Navigate to https://sites.iastate.edu/create/seniordesignsite
  3. Enter the project title as the Title for the site, e.g., Concurrent Cluster Manager
  4. Enter a Path for the site in the form of [year]-[graduating month]-[team number]. E.g., 2020-May-03 for team 3 in spring semester of 2020.
  5. Click Submit. You should see a green message at the top indicating your site is building.

Giving a Team Access to Their Site

  1. Using the role account, log into the team site at the URL which consists of https://seniord.cs.iastate.edu/[path]/login. For example, the login link for the example site in (4) above would be https://seniord.cs.iastate.edu/2020-May-03/login. This link will also be given in the email that is sent to the role account's Exchange mailbox after the site is created.
  2. After logging in, use these instructions to add members of the team by entering their netids and assigning them the Content Editor role.
  3. Notify the team of their new site, providing them the login link.

Add the New Project to the List

Add a link to the site to the Projects List.