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Where should I host my content?

Where should I host my content?

Where should I host my content?

A guide for faculty at Illinois State University

Designed for instructors at Illinois State University, this guide is intended to help you decide where to host materials, or content.

By answering questions based on your goals and preferences, this guide will recommend a single system for you. To that end, this guide uses a decision-tree format. If you'd like to see all systems and features at a glance, check out this comparison chart.

Getting Started...

To get started, think about these questions:

  • Do you care who has access to your material?
  • Does your content need to be restricted to members of Illinois State University?
  • What if someone outside of Illinois State found your materials on the Internet? Would that be a problem?

When you are ready to begin, let's get started...

Information

This guide covers almost anything you'd want to share with your students: audio, video, podcasts, pictures, Word documents, PDF documents, PowerPoint presentations, study materials, syllabi, quizzes, tests, research materials, abstracts, and nearly anything else you can think of.