Our most common request from clients is to design or re-design a website. Students on these teams work directly with clients to develop sitemaps and wireframes, design pages in Wordpress, develop basic familiarity with security, accessibility, and usability skills, mobile responsiveness, SEO, and use project management tools to guide their work.
The Security team tackles technically complex and high-stakes security work for real-world clients. Students conduct weekly site audits, malware scans, data reviews, plugin reviews, and threat assessments in response to emerging issues. They also take on comprehensive security projects—like full-site audits and security training—for nonprofit organizations and former web clients.
Team members gain experience in:
This role requires both technical fluency and strong communication skills. Ideal applicants have completed INFO I130 and I230. One team runs each semester.
Students on these teams work closely with our website teams and community clients to identify accessibility and usability issues on websites. They make actionable recommendations--and in the process, build the skills needed to support nonprofit and government organizations with similar challenges.
No prior experience is needed. Our guided curriculum walks each team through every step of the process, from assessing websites to making them more accessible and user-friendly. Student materials based on guidelines from Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Web Accessibility In Mind (WebAIM), and Web Accessibility Evaluations Tools (WAVE.)
Our data visualization teams explore and display data trends, either for internal decision-making purposes or external audiences. Clients have included the City of Bloomington and the State of Indiana's Family and Social Services Administration. Students joining this team must first complete the I400 Tableau course.
Teach IT is one of our largest teams. If you love working with others and want to share your love for technology and reduce the digital divide, this is your team. We work with three local Boys and Girls Clubs, Edgewood Jr. High, and various other partners in town, developing and delivering fun tech workshops to local youth that align with Indiana K-12 state standards for computer science. We also work with adults such as the Meadowood Retirement Center and Thriving Connections, coaching adults on various random technology issues. Alumni often mention that their experience with Teach IT helped them develop consulting skills.
For me, the most valuable experience with Serve IT was that I was able to learn how to be apart of a team. For the most part, most of my web development experience have been done individually. Because of this, being apart of a team was very unique and different. With that being said, I feel like I came out with a better idea on how to exchange ideas while implementing everybody's ideas equally.
Serve IT Team Lead
