What is CreateFSU?

Sponsored by University Libraries, CreateFSU gives you, as FSU faculty and students, a digital space to showcase your research. With CreateFSU, you have easy access to content management systems like WordPress and MediaWiki. CreateFSU applications give you simple authoring, editing, and publishing options, while still providing flexibility in style, format, and presentation. 

What can I build with CreateFSU?

  • A site with interactive data visualizations
  • A book, thesis, or dissertation supplement
  • An online exhibit
  • A collaborative research blog
  • Open Educational Resources
  • A public website for your project to post goals, outcomes, and updates
  • A collaborative blog for a course you teach

What it includes:

All accounts are given 1 GB of storage and access to one-click installation of applications, including:

What it excludes

The service will not be offered to departments, centers, or other official units of the University. Additionally, we cannot provide profile pages for students. If you are interested in web services for your department or as an individual, please see ITS’s Web Services Catalog, where you can find information about web hosting for individuals and departments.

CreateFSU also cannot provide services for for storage-intense digital projects. It is also not currently available to official student clubs.

The service does not include a design consultation service. Think of the project and your space as a playground or a canvas. 

Technical details:

  • You’ll register a personalized sub-domain of https://create.fsu.edu/ (for example https://myproject.create.fsu.edu/). After this, you’ll have control over a web space that allows you to  share an academic project, author a blog related to your research, build a research/creative portfolio, or curate a digital exhibit—to name just a few examples. 
  • You’ll have access to a number of open applications such as WordPress, Drupal, Omeka, Scalar, or Media Wiki. 
  • If you depart from FSU, you may choose to take your work with you and purchase your own domain. 

How do I get started?

In order to create an account for you, the CreateFSU team will need some information on your project. If you do not already have an account, going to the Dashboard will bring you to an application request form (this requires login with your FSUID). After you’ve submitted the initial request, the team will get back to you with instructions for building your new site. To read more about our signup and onboarding process, see your Getting Started page.

Learn more on our FAQs and support page or contact [email protected] for additional information.

The content on this page was adapted from The University of Colorado Boulder (https://buffscreate.net/about/). The CreateFSU is provided by Reclaim Hosting and funded by FSU Libraries.