How to Access Faculty & Student Webpages

Faculty Student website WWW2 FACWEB

When to Use?

Use for questions or procedure related to Faculty (FACWEB) & Student (WWW2) webpages.

You can go directly to Application Access Request on the Service Portal and click Submit a Ticket on the right.
- Note that you may need to log into the website at the top right corner.
In the Access To field, select Faculty/Staff Webpage or Student Webpage.
Fill out the rest of the ticket and click Request.
You will be notified by email when your request has been completed.

You must be connected to Direct Access or Ivanti Secure Access VPN before accessing either the Faculty (FACWEB) or Student (WWW2) website directories.
- If you are not connected to Direct Access, here are the instructions on how to connect to Ivanti Secure Access VPN.

For Faculty (FACWEB):
1. Open up your files and go to \\office.ads.gvsu.edu\dfs\FACWEB-Private.
2. Open the folder with your username.
3. You are now in your web space and may edit your pages from this directory.
  1. Your homepage must be named one of the following:
    1. index.html
    2. index.htm
    3. default.htm
4. You can view your webpage by opening up a browser and navigating to:
  - Example: https://faculty.gvsu.edu/USERNAME

For Student (WWW2):
1. Open up your files and go to \\student.ads.gvsu.edu\dfs\WWW2.
2. Open the folder with the letter of your last name or the beginning letter of your username.
3. Open the folder with your username.
4. You are now in your web space and may edit your pages from this directory.
  1. Your homepage must be named one of the following:
    1. default.htm
    2. default.asp
    3. index.htm
    4. index.html
    5. iisstart.htm
5. You can view your webpage by opening up a browser and navigating to:
  - Example: https://www2.gvsu.edu/USERNAME

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