Google Sites Redirect Guidelines

Users that had sites within Oakshare as of July 10, 2019 that would like be maintain their redirect from www.oakland.edu/~netid will be able to request a redirect to a Google Site by putting in a ticket to [email protected] under the following guidelines.

• The target Google Site name should be the users NetId. e.g. https://sites.google.com/oakland.edu/[NetId]

• The site will need to be hosted with Google Sites within the oakland.edu G Suite domain using Google New Sites.

  • The base URL for Google Classic Sites will typically be in the format of: https://sites.google.com/a/oakland.edu/[NetId]

  • The base URL for Google New Sites will be in the format of: https://sites.google.com/oakland.edu/[NetId]

    • For a comparison of Google Classic Sites versus Google New Sites please see the information at the following page: Compare classic Sites & new Sites

      • Google Classic sites can be either converted or moved to Google New Sites. Instructions can be found at the following link: Convert your site to new Sites

• Sites should meet WCAG Standard 2.0 Level AA accessibility standards.

  • Please refer to some of the following resources to help with accessibility compliance:

    • https://kb.oakland.edu/uts/Accessibility_Efforts_and_Toolkits

    • https://www.oakland.edu/ucm/required-training/#tab-3

• Sites should follow the Oakland University Licensing and Brand Guidelines as specified at https://www.oakland.edu/ucm/licensing-and-brand-guidelines/logo-and-colors/

• Faculty can continue to create a summary page in Percussion (the content management system for www.oakland.edu), as part of their department presentation and link to their official page.

  • An example is here: https://oakland.edu/chemistry/top-links/faculty/yang

  • https://www.oakland.edu/math/the-people/

• Faculty who create a summary page in Percussion can link on that page to their Google site (link to http://www.oakland.edu/~NetId/) or they can link to any other personally chosen and personally maintained page.

  • Example of linking to a personally chosen and supported page: https://oakland.edu/smtd/faculty-staff/deborah-blair-vanderlinde

• To get assistance in creating a page in Percussion please contact your UCM account manager. You can find your UCM account manager at the following page.

  • https://www.oakland.edu/ucm/amdirectory

• For information on creating a Google Site please see the following pages:

  • https://kb.oakland.edu/uts/GoogleSites

  • Get started with Sites

• The existing global redirects that currently go to Oakshare will be removed December 1, 2019 so please make any requests to [email protected] to move the redirect prior to that date.