Student Options
File Storage
Students are encouraged to purchase and use portable USB drives for storing course-related documents and personal
files. Students also may have online class storage allotted to them by individual instructors, when it is needed for
specific coursework. In addition, beginning Fall 2010, students may use a personal UW-Whitewater account on
Google Docs, as an option for online document storage. Simply use your UW-Whitewater Net-ID and password to
access the free, online account at the UW-W Google Apps Web site. In addition to file storage, Google Docs allows
file sharing and collaborative, real-time editing among multiple users. Get more information about using the Google
account.
Personal Web sites - students.uww.edu | Account Request
UW-Whitewater students who are interested in creating a personal Web site can obtain a UW-Whitewater Web
publishing account for this purpose
CONNECTING TO WEB STORAGE USING A WINDOWS PC: FTP
You can use any number of FTP clients (we recommend filezilla) to connect to your Web Storage account from a
Windows PC; however, you are encouraged to use WebDAV to connect to your Web Storage account from a
Windows PC because it is more secure.
Connecting using FileZilla
The page below will walk you through the steps of configuring FileZilla to connect using secure FTP.
View the instructions
Other FTP Clients
If you have a preferred FTP client you will need to provide the FTP server to connect.
For Students
Your connection information is:
Server: stustorage.uww.edu
Username & password: your NetID username and password.
Connect using: FTP with TLS/SSL
CONNECTING TO WEB STORAGE USING A MACINTOSH: FTP
You can use any number of FTP clients, including Fetch, to connect to your Web Storage account from a Macintosh.
Fetch is provided in the General Access Labs.
However, you are encouraged to use WebDAV to connect to your Web Storage account from a Macintosh.
Here is the information you would enter for Fetch:
For Students
Server/Host: stustorage.uww.edu
Username & password: your NetID username and password
Connect using: FTP with TLS/SSL
CONNECTING TO STUDENT ORGANIZATION WEB STORAGE USING A WINDOWS PC: FTP
You can use any number of FTP clients, we recommend filezilla, to connect from a Windows PC.
Connection Information
The connection information is:
Server: orgs.uww.edu
Username: your Student Organization's username
Password: the same password you use to get into your Student Organization's E-mail account.
 Managing your Student Organization Web site (Dreamweaver and FTP setup)
CONNECTING TO WEB STORAGE USING A WINDOWS PC: WEBDAV
The recommended method for connecting to Web Storage from a Windows PC is to use the WebDAV method.
WebDAV allows you to access your Web Storage account securely from both on-campus and off-campus without
installing any additional software.
View the instructions
CONNECTING TO WEB STORAGE USING A MACINSTOSH: WEBDAV
To access your Web Storage account using WebDAV from a Macintosh computer running 10.4+ WEBDAV is built
into the mac OS.
This is the recommended method for connecting to Web Storage from a Macintosh.
After you login to the Mac click on the "GO" menu and click on "Connect to Server":
For students enter the following address https://stustorage.uww.edu/username, for faculty and staff
enter https://webbe.uww.edu/username where username is your UW-W Net-ID. The click "Connect"
You will be prompted to enter your username and password. Enter your UW-W Net-ID username and password and
click "OK".
You will now be connected to Student Storage or Faculty/Staff Web Storage. Students will see PRIVATE, WEB and
any CLASS STORAGE accounts you have, faculty and staff will see their FACSTAFF and any web accounts they
have. You will be able to drag and drop items back and forth as a regular hard drive.
You are now connected to your accounts via WebDav, to disconnect from your storage account do one of the
following.
You can ctrl+click on the icon on your desktop and select eject or from with in the finder window click on the eject
button next to the networkdrive.
To upload pages:
After entering your WEB folder account, upload the files by dragging them into the proper folder. Note that the first
page you want to come up must be named “index.htm” (or “index.html”) for others to see it by default; otherwise,
the page will display an error.
To view your website:
You can view your website by visiting your
address http://students.uww.edu/username orhttp://facstaff.uww.edu/username.
Note: The images in this tutorial are taken from a lab machine, your office Mac or personal Mac may not be
indentical in all the images.