Welcome to LMU Build!
Information Technology Services is excited to offer this service to all faculty, staff, and students at LMU. If you have questions or need guidance in how to get started with your LMU Build account, you’ve come to the right place! Our support content is a work in progress, so if you have a question that is not answered here, please reach out to servicedesk@lmu.edu and we’ll do our best to help you out.
What is LMU Build?
LMU Build is a free web hosting service offered to all current students, faculty, and staff at Loyola Marymount University.
How do I sign up for LMU Build?
Visit lmu.build and click the “Login” button in the menu. You will be prompted to log in via Single Sign-On. When you log in for the first time, you will need to choose your domain — the web address or URL for your new site. For further assistance, please email servicedesk@lmu.edu.
What can I use LMU Build for?
LMU Build is intended to be a creative platform for students, faculty, and staff to explore web development and design. You do not need to be affiliated with any particular college or department — Build is available university-wide, for beginners and experts alike.
LMU Build may not be used for commercial purposes, hacking or distribution of viruses, or illegal activities such as copyright infringement and harassment. Please see the ITS Acceptable Use Policy for more information.
Faculty: If you would like to incorporate LMU Build into your course but are not sure where to start, feel free to reach out to your college’s Instructional Technologist for ideas. While we do not have extensive resources available here yet, Brigham Young University has created a great start-up guide for faculty here, including sample rubrics and syllabi.
Features and Tools
Curious about what you can do with LMU Build? Check out the most popular features and applications listed below. If you don’t see your favorite web development app, sign up for LMU Build to explore all of the options or email servicedesk@lmu.edu with any questions you have.
Content Management and Wikis
Chamilo, Contao, DokuWiki, Dotclear, Drupal, Geeklog, GetSimple, Grav, ImpressPages, Joomla, Known, liveSite, MediaWiki, Nucleus CMS, Omeka, PivotX, PmWiki, PyroCMS, TRU, HAXcms, Mukurtu, phpMyFAQ, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Coranto, Symfony, Zend Framework, Mahara, Mambo, PHP-Fusion, Scalar, Serendipity, WordPress, Xoops, Zikulu …and more!
Forums, Chat, and Social Media
Booked, Dada Mail, Elgg, ExtCalendar, FluxBB, Feed On Feeds, Freshrss, GBook, MyBB, Oxwall, phpBB, phpFreeChat, phpList, phpMyChat, Pligg, selfoss, Simple Machine Forums, Site Recommender, Tiny Tiny RSS, Vanilla Forums, WebCards, WebCalendar, webtrees, XMB Forums …and more!
Photos, Files, and Projects
Codiad, Collabtive, Coppermine, Koken, Lychee, Matomo, OpenBiblio, OpenDocMan, phpCOIN, phpMyCounter, PHProjekt, Piwigo, ProjectSend, SEO Panel, TinyWebGallery, Zenphoto …and more!
Back-End Development
Cron Jobs, FTP/SFTP, Git Version Control, JetBackup, MySQL Databases, MultiPHP Manager, Perl Modules, phpMyAdmin, PHP PEAR Packages, RubyGems, SSH, Terminal, unlimited subdomains, user metrics …and more!
If you would like to learn more about using the apps listed above but cannot find information within our own support resources, please check out our LinkedIn Learning Guides page.
