Quick Start Guide

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Faculty Sites

Faculty members can create professional profile websites with ISU Sites. 

Do you want to make a website for your lab? How to create a lab website.

Watch this video walk-through or follow the written directions below.

Step 1: Log in to the website creator

Go to https://sites.iastate.edu and click the red Log in button.

sites homepage with log in button highlighted

Log in using your ISU Net-ID and password (same as your ISU email).

The Okta login page

Step 2: Create a Simple, Advanced, or Full Scale site

1. From https://sites.iastate.edu, go to Manage my sites.

Manage my sites button screenshot

2. Click the red create new site button.

3. Choose Simple, Advanced, or Full Scale

site type

Review the terms. These terms must be agreed to in order to make a website.

Click the create my site button at the bottom.

create my site button screenshot

4. Stand by while your site is being created.

An email will be sent to your ISU email address (in a few short minutes) with a login link once your site is ready.

Step 3: Log in to your new website

Click the login link from your email to log in.

Example of the email with the login link

Visit Sites.iastate.edu to get started

Step 4: Fill out your profile

Some of your ISU information will be automatically filled out. You can edit and add to this information.

How to fill out your profile

Edit profile screenshot

Step 5: Update your footer

edit footer contact information

 

Congratulations! You have a new website!

Advanced features

If you chose the Advanced option, you can add pages and edit the menu. If you chose Simple, and would like to add pages, you may upgrade to Advanced.

 

Sites.iastate.edu