The Baskin School of Engineering hosts a wide variety of web sites for different BSOE-related research projects, clubs, classes and departments. Any faculty or staff member can request a web site by completing the web site application form.
The BSOE hosts class web pages for every class taught at the BSOE. Instructors and their designees can edit the class web page using Samba, SFTP or SSH. Some class web pages go back to 1996! Starting in Fall 2011, the BSOE began using a new class web page system which is documented here. If you need help editing your class web page, please e-mail .
BSOE faculty, staff and students can create personal web pages on our web servers. For more information about how to create a personal web page, please read the BSOE personal web page instructions. PHP scripts can be run from your web home directory. Name the files with a ".php" extension, and PHP will execute them. Other CGI scripts can also be run from home directories. Please see the User CGI FAQ for detailed instructions and troubleshooting steps.
WebDAV can be enabled for web sites and project directories, allowing for file uploads and downloads. Web-only accounts can be created that allow non-BSOE users to access these directories. Send an e-mail to to have WebDAV enabled in your web site or project directory.
The BSOE uses Drupal on many of its web sites. Drupal is software that allows non-technical users to edit web pages. The BSOE webmaster offers occasional Drupal classes to train faculty and staff on how to update BSOE web pages. If you are interested in a class, please see the Drupal class registration form.
Additionally, the BSOE has developed several custom Drupal modules to help achieve some of the goals of the BSOE web sites.
The BSOE hosts SlugTube, which is a video hosting web site specifically for use by BSOE faculty and staff for videos related to instruction. This site allows users to upload videos in nearly any format, and then converts those videos to flash-based FLV videos, and provides a player that will work in all Flash-enabled web browsers.
The BSOE hosts a Moodle web site for faculty and students to use. Instructors can create a Moodle account and then e-mail to have their account upgraded to a course creator status.
The BSOE hosts a Request Tracker web site. This package is typically used to track work orders, bugs and so on through an e-mail and web-based interface. If you would like to use Request Tracker for your group, please e-mail .
GForge is a collaboration tool used by software development teams to help manage their project. It includes a bug tracking system, a Wiki system, revision control interfaces and more. For more information, please visit the BSOE GForge web site.
We host a PHPBB installation that instructors can use as a class discussion forum.
We host a Gallery2 installation for storing BSOE-related photo albums.
The BSOE hosts a BugZilla installation for faculty and staff to use to track bugs and feature requests for software developed at the BSOE. To register a new product for use on BugZilla, please e-mail .
All BSOE web sites run Webalizer hourly to gather statistics about who is visiting our sites. To view usage information for any web site, just go to https://<site name>/usage/. For example, to view the BSOE's main web site usage, go to https://www.soe.ucsc.edu/usage/. You will need to use your BSOE login name and password to view any web site's usage information.
In order to promote the use of Drupal across the UCSC campus, the BSOE will host Drupal web sites for any staff or faculty. The BSOE webmaster can help with getting your site started and giving you some training on how to maintain your site, but you are responsible for actually performing the site maintenance. For more information, please visit the UCSC Drupal home page.
The BSOE also has activated several Google Apps for BSOE users to use.