Features
Domain of One's Own provides Bryn Mawr College students, faculty, and staff with their own subdomain of digital.brynmawr.edu (e.g., yourdomain.digital.brynmawr.edu), which they can use to host websites and web content. Much as Virginia Woolf believed a room of one's own gave women the figurative and literal space necessary to become writers, a domain of one's own gives 21st-century authors the digital space needed to experiment, develop digital competencies, and pursue digital scholarship and creative work.
Domain of One's Own is a great place to build and host a website, digital research project, or e-portfolio using popular open source tools such as WordPress, Omeka, Scalar or MediaWiki.You can install more than one application on a domain. Advanced users can also use the FTP and file management tools provided to publish and manage web content built outside of these applications.
Getting Started
To register for and start using your domain, go to digital.brynmawr.edu, click the Get Started button, and log in using your Bryn Mawr username and password.
For advice on choosing a domain name and a step-by-step instructions, see our support documentation.
Support
- See our support documentation for instructions on registering and managing a domain, installing web applications, and accessing and managing websites you've created.
- For more detailed instructions on using features of each web application, go to the support pages for that application. You will find links to these support pages within the applications themselves and by clicking My Apps on your Domain of One's Own Dashboard.
- If you like video tutorials, log in to LinkedIn Learning with your Bryn Mawr username and password, and search for the name of the web application.
- If you have questions or encounter problems, click the Get Help with Domain of One's Own to let us know!
Availability
- All current Bryn Mawr students, faculty, and staff can register for digital.brynmawr.edu subdomains and install web applications through Domain of One's Own.
- Haverford students, faculty, and staff members can set up domains and web install applications through Haverford Sites.
- Domain owners can give anyone -- including non-Bryn-Mawr-affiliates -- permission to view, comment on and/or edit any of the web applications that they have installed within their domains.
- Students, faculty, and staff must give up their digital.brynmawr.edu subdomain when they leave the college. However, we can help you set up your own private domain and transfer your websites and web content to it so that you can take everything with you or transfer that content to others, but you must do this before you leave. Click Get Help with Domain of One's Own to set up an off-boarding consultation.
Policies
- All use of Domain of One's Own and sites created on Domain of One's Own must adhere to Bryn Mawr's Acceptable Use Policy.
- Federal law requires that websites intended for student use as part of a course or academic or co-curricular program must meet web accessibility standards and that any public-facing coursework students are required to complete complies with FERPA guidelines. LITS staff are happy to provide more information and guidelines for best practices; click Get Help with Domain of One's Own to request a consultation.