How do I create a new Confluence space?
Confluence supports collaborative online work in spaces, repositories for content that can contain associated, collaborative pages.
- Create and manage a space in UVACanvas: Add participants and assign permissions in your Confluence space based on the membership of your associated UVACanvas site.
- Create and manage a space directly in Confluence: This allows you to manage individual user permission settings directly in Confluence.
Step by step guides are provided here for each option, respectively.
Create and manage a Confluence space for your UVACanvas site.
Access the course in Canvas.
Navigate to the course where you will add the Confluence space.
Tip: If your course does not display on your Dashboard, follow the steps to find it in How do I use the Global Navigation Menu as an instructor? (opens new window).
Enable Confluence.
Follow steps to manage Course Navigation links in How do I Manage Course Navigation links? (opens new window) and Enable Confluence.
You will be directed to your Confluence space.
When someone in the Teacher or TA role in the Canvas course site first accesses the tool, a corresponding space will be created in Confluence. This Confluence space will open in a new browser tab or window, and its name will be the name of the Canvas site, with "Home" appended, for example, 22Su History of UVA Home.
Once an instructor has created the Confluence space, students will be able to access it.
Note: If a student attempts to navigate to the Confluence tool before an instructor has accessed it, they will get an error message: "An instructor will need to access this tool and create the Confluence Space for the course before you can access it. Please contact your instructor with any questions."
Add Content to your new space.
- Select Create to add additional pages to your space.
- Select Edit to customize your space home page.
Create a new Confluence space directly in Confluence.
Go to Confluence.
Navigate to the ITS instance of Confluence (opens new window).
Log in using NetBadge.
If you are not already logged into NetBadge, you will be redirected to the NetBadge login page. Either:
- Use your Digital Certificate to log in by selecting the corresponding Log In button, or
- Enter your UVA computing ID and Password and Log In.
Create Space.
- Select the Spaces menu.
- Select Create space.
Select a space type.
- Select the type of space to be created:
- Blank space (default): Start with a blank space.
- Personal space: Keep your notes, task lists and other content organized.
- Documentation space: Create and manage technical documentation for your products.
- Knowledge base: Capture and share best practices and solutions to common problems.
- Software project space: Create software requirements, capture meeting notes, and track decisions.
- Team space: Collaborate and share resources with your team.
- Select Next.
Note: For details on the other options for creating a space (Personal, Documentation, Knowledge base, Software project, and Team), see the Confluence help article, Create a space from a template (opens new window).
Name your space.
- Enter a short name for your new space in the Space name field.
- The Space key, which will appear in the space's URL (web address), will be automatically generated based on your space name. You may edit the Space key, though Confluence requires each Space key to be unique.
- Select Create.
Add Content to your new space.
- Select Create to add additional pages to your space.
- Select Edit to customize your space home page.
Get additional help.
Questions about adding the Confluence tool to your UVACanvas course site and course Confluence spaces can be addressed to the Learning Technology Services (LTS) Team.
For online tutorials and help with features in Confluence, visit the Confluence Support site (opens new window).
You can get additional assistance with UVA's instance of Confluence by contacting the UVA Atlassian Support Team.