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Overview: Web Publishing at Penn State

Your PASS Account

Upon receipt of a Penn State Access Account all students, faculty and staff are initially allocated 500 MB of online storage space. PASS at Penn StateThis is also known as your Penn State Access Account Storage Space (PASS). There are three methods for connecting to your PASS to store digital files there:

  1. Mapping a drive on your computer to PASS
  2. Secure file transfer program SSH

    3. remember: ftp.personal.psu.edu

  3. PASS Explorer

    4. direct link: https://explorer.pass.psu.edu/

Your allocation can be doubled to 1 GB for free, (Go to https://www.work.psu.edu click on "Add More Space (Quota Manager)"). Currently your PASS is active for six months after students graduate. After this time period access to this storage space is deactivated.

 

Web Publishing? First, You Must Apply for Web space

Users can apply to ITS to have Web folders activated within their PASS space, (http://www.personal.psu.edu).

Once activated, ITS will place both a "www_protected" and a "www" folder in your PASS space. Once connected, you can publish digital files online using one of these two folders.

  1. Use "www_protected" and the Access Control Manager Wizard to restrict access so that only those individuals you choose will have access to your files, or
  2. Use "www" so that anyone on the Internet can gain access to it. Publishing in this public web space is as simple as pasting a copy your file into your "www" folder.

 

Second, Choose a Method for Web Publishing

Penn State users have two methods to consider for publishing in either of their online folders. Both methods are available to all Penn State students, faculty and staff:

Blog Tool: Drive It ALL From Your Dashboard

Dashboard

EASIEST OPTION! - Use the Penn State Blog tool Moveable Type 4 to create a website along with an accompanying blog. This is the simplest of options! Easy to learn, your work is written directly to your online PASS space. No special web editing software is required, just open a browser and login to your dashboard at blogs.psu.edu!

Use Common Tools & Connect

Create and Share

Do It Yourself - Use common web publishing tools (DreamWeaver, iWeb, Weebly, GooglePages, Nvu, Word, Powerpoint are just a few examples) to create files or web pages. Then, connect to your PASS space and upload these digital files into either the 'www' or your 'www_protected' folder.

Helpful Movies / Handout


Web Publishing:
The Infrastructure at Penn State

 

Flash Movie
The Files in Your PASS Space:
A Guided Tour

 

Flash Movie
Using the
Access Control Manager Wizard

Handout - pdf Publishing in your Penn State Web Space

The goal of this web site is for you to gain an understanding of the skills you need to build a simple, clean and effective online e-portfolio. Students with inclination and interest can easily extend their range of skills.

Caution! Don't get fancy! Exemplary e-portfolios focus on evidence. Confusing or busy web pages distract readers from your intended purpose - sharing your evidence!

Have your Web space yet? Which will it be?  Blog Tool: The Drive it ALL From Your Dashboard or Use Common Tools & Connect?