Governance Guidelines
Sites at Northeastern, hosted by CampusPress, requires a Northeastern account for authentication when creating a website. Local login accounts without a @northeastern.edu email address will not be allowed access.
Annually, ITS will review and confirm that CampusPress site owners are still active. To ensure that websites can continue to be hosted on CampusPress, the current site owner’s Northeastern account must be active.
If there is a change in ownership at any point on your site, or if you are leaving Northeastern University, we require that you submit a change of ownership form so we can designate a new site owner. The new site owner will then need to confirm this request via email.
Sites at Northeastern is intended for active students, faculty, and staff. If you are a student who is graduating soon, please note that once your account transitions to an Alumni status, you will lose access to your site which will be retired. If you do not plan to continue to have your site published, please submit a form for site removal.
Security
CampusPress is a secure, managed hosting provider with 24/7/365 monitoring that handles all security upgrades and patches on the CampusPress network. For further detail, please see the CampusPress security guide.
Branding
Northeastern templates on Sites at Northeastern have been branded with the Northeastern header and footer. The Portfolio template, by design, includes only the Northeastern footer. Any website requesting a custom domain would be subject to a branding review.
Accessibility
Templates on Sites at Northeastern are highly accessible out of the box. However, it is important to structure content with accessibility in mind. For more information on accessibility, or to request as accessibility consultation, please visit the Digital Accessibility site.
Cookie Compliance
All Sites at Northeastern templates utilize a cookie compliance consent manager which has been pre-configured. This can be found via the “Cookie Preferences” link in the footer.
User Management
When you create a website on Sites at Northeastern, you will automatically become the site administrator. You will be able to add Northeastern users to your site via Users > Add New User on your WordPress dashboard if those users have already been registered on CampusPress. If you add a user who does not yet exist on CampusPress, then please submit a Request Website Admin Request to ITS and we will add the user(s) for you.
Create your site
To start creating your website on Northeastern, please click the button below. You can preview the templates on the home page in advance of creating your site.