Throughout the semester, you'll be maintaining a website for your team project on the servers at Olin that makes http://uxdesign.olin.edu (Links to an external site.) viewable by anyone on the Internet.
Your team website will collect and present your deliverables for each major phase report and other assignments, even though they are also submitted to Canvas (to facilitate quick and accurate grading / feedback).
The public facing nature of the site is helpful for creating a design portfolio for current students and inspiring future UX Design students (and much more).
There are many ways to make a website - you'll have a multitude of tools at your disposal. There is an HTML templates subpage that shows sites from which previous students have downloaded templates for making professional looking team project pages. Unfortunately, sites such as wix.com do not allow user to export great looking website templates found there. Using Github pages for course projects is a familiar flow for some students, but it does not meet our class needs of having the code hosted and served from our servers, where we can keep the links live for the foreseeable future.
To access the space on Olin servers to set up and maintain your project team page, you'll use your Olin credentials. All students in the course, even those cross-registered, have Olin credentials - a username and password from our IT dept. We have worked with Olin IT to make it so that your Olin credentials (username and password) should give you access to the following resources:
//Windows Samba share option
-use Samba by browsing to \\linwebprod.olin.edu\sa2019 which can be done by using the windows key, plus the r key and then typing the address above. Note that you need to access the Samba share with the fully-spelled-out hostname; just using \\linwebprod without the olin.edu attached will fail. You can also map a network drive if you'd like.
You will be able to see your teams name as a folder. There, you can drag and drop files for a webpage that you create through whatever service or software you chose.
//Connecting through a secure shell
Using this option, there is no drag and drop functionality (unless you rely upon tools such as sshfs), but you can use the command line to do many things (scp can be useful).
Use SSH commands to log in to linwebprod.olin.edu (type ssh <olin user name>@linwebprod.olin.edu and once logged in, access the uxdesign share by typing cd /var/www/virtual/uxdesign.olin.edu/html/sa2019/. Once there, you can ls and then cd to your team name's folder
Your team pages can be accessed through the front page of the class site at uxdesign.olin.edu.
The course website factors into your final grade in the course.