Webtools

Webtools is a free application suite provided by the Web Services unit in Public Affairs.

Each application is designed and developed to meet the unique needs of the university community in providing in-house communications solutions to faculty and staff on all campuses.

Webtools was first released in 2004 with two services and has grown to 16 services powering campus blogs, calendars, directory, forms, surveys, emails and more.

Webtools features include:

Enterprise communication and marketing solutions
Blogs and webpage services
Bulletins for sending weekly general-interest newsletters
Web calendars for units and departments feeding into the master campus calendars
Web forms and surveys for collecting data
Email+ for emailing services
Massmail for communicating with targeted campus audiences
Short URLs for redirecting your long URLs
Group Manager for managing all of the groups and users served by Webtools
Campus Directory for managing profiles
Services are continuously enhanced and improved

Who can access Webtools

All University of Illinois faculty and staff
Students are not granted access
Student workers: Faculty/staff members can request access for supervised student workers assisting in a departmental project
Businesses and other outside entities are not granted access to Webtools unless they are directly developing work for a university promotion

Security

The Webtools security model allows for many different levels of access including admins, managers, CCOs, unit admins, campus admins and System admins. This model allows complete flexibility for the 750 units using Webtools to configure and implement a strategy that works no matter the size of the unit’s IT team.

Additional resources

Suggestions

Have a Webtools topic you’d like added to this page? Email publicaffairs@illinois.edu with the subject line: Suggestion for Webtools FAQ.

Experts

James Wilson (Web Services), wilsonjr@illinois.edu
Lance Campbell (Web Services), lance@illinois.edu