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A Community of Learning
Making the Luminis Platform YOURS
Presented by: Judi Amsel,
SunGard Higher Education
March 19, 2007
Course ID 755
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Session Rules of Etiquette
• Please turn off your cell phone/pager
• If you must leave the session early, please do so as discreetly as possible
• Please avoid side conversation during the session
Thank you for your cooperation!
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Introduction
The Luminis Platform is a very flexible, powerful tool for communication and collaboration. Its flexibility means that it can be configured and customized in many different ways to make it reflect your institution’s image and culture, emphasize your perspectives, and support your processes.
This presentation will cover specific ways that this customization can be achieved, making use of examples from institutions currently using Luminis and describing recommended practices or approaches to designing and building the platform environment that will be undeniably YOURS.
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A familiar theme at Summit…
In what ways would you like to
measurably improve
your institution’s performance?
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Areas to consider
• Portal name• Login page• Look and feel• Custom roles• Layout options• Channels
• Categories for channels or groups
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Portal names“What’s in a name?
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet…”
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Portal names
• “My…” (industry standard for personalized content)• Plays on words
• UCOnnect • Davenportal
• Names that reflect institutional identity• Virtual version of bricks-and-mortar campus (MC Square)• Mascot (49er Express, RamPort)• Color (BlueView)
• Acronyms• PALS (Personalized Access to Learning & Services)• STANLEY (South Texas Network Linking Everything to
You)• URSA (University Resources for Students &
Administration)
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Login Page
The first impression users will have of the portal comes with the page where they log in.
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Login page
• This is the one screen that will look the same to all portal users
• What’s inside… and what isn’t
• Great location for FAQs and tutorials
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Login page
• Important messages• Static or dynamic
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Login page
• Announcements• Access to tutorials
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Login page
• Overview (Intro Video)• Reworked login applet
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Look and feel
Nothing says “unique” like your own branding.
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Standard look and feel is meant to be amended!
• Colors and logos
• Icons
• Style elements
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Logos (screen banners)
Logos are the core of what many people think of as the portal’s “brand,” conveying the institution’s
tone and intention.
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Custom icon sets
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Custom styles
• Edit nested-tables.xsl file(s) in Platform III.x.x
• Create custom skin in Platform IV
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Custom roles
User-relevant content delivery depends on how you segment your audiences.
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How Luminis roles and other attributes work
• Attribute types• Roles (ex.: Current Student, Executive, Downtown Campus)
• Access groups (ex.: Content Administrators, Committee chairs)
• Majors, imported groups, Group or Course members
• In Platform III.x.x• Personal Announcements can be targeted to users on the basis
of a match against any of these attributes
• Channel content may be targeted to users on the basis of a match against roles or access groups
• In Platform IV• Layout fragments, Personal Announcements, and channel
content may be targeted to users on the basis of a match against a single role, access group, or other attribute, or boolean combinations thereof
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Layouts
A personalized portal begins with the layoutsthat different users see by default.
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How Portal Layouts Work
• A user’s default layout is a composite of layout “fragments” – sets of tabs with channels in columns
• Each fragment is presented to users based on attribute matches (typically role=“x”)
• The amount and type of user customization permitted is institutionally determined
Everyone sees these
Faculty see this
Faculty and students see this
Added by user
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Layouts that work for your institution
• Is there content that everyone should see?• Fragments for natural audience segments
• Campuses or sites• Academic divisions• Professional schools
• What is the “right” number of tabs to start with?• What is the “right” amount of flexibility?
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Layout management in Platform III and Platform IV
• In Platform III.x.x• Layout fragments defined in dlm.xml file and managed in
GUI with a special user account• Fragments defined for user groups by role only (by
default)• Fragments for other types of audiences can be set up with
Java customization
• In Platform IV• Layout fragments defined using portal admin utility and
managed in GUI with a special user account• Fragments can be defined for users on the basis of any set
of attributes captured in a “filter group”• Examples: All users affiliated with the School of Business,
Arts & Humanities Grad Students, Banner users, President’s cabinet
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ChannelsThe substance of your portal,
channels provide users with the access and information they need.
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Channels to develop and deploy
• Institutional news, events, deadlines, classifieds
• Single sign-on (SSO) channels for systems requiring authentication• Library applications• Galileo• e~Print
• External news and information• RSS feeds• Local news, weather, sports, transportation, events
Whatever channels you decide on, the important thing is that they reflect your institutional culture and needs.
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Making special use of pre-built channels
• Campus Announcements
• Bookmarks
• Academic Services
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Tutorials and Help
• Online tutorials accessed from inside the portal or on the login page• MyMC
• Putting your mark on the out-of-the-box Tutorial channel• GCC
• Adding institution-specific detail (e.g., policies, support phone #s) to online help files
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Display (UI) customizations: Examples
• Change terminology : “My Courses” “My Modules”• Edits to the group studio JSP/JSF pages to change 'course' to
'module'. These pages are installed in 'CP_ROOT/webapps/luminis/ipx/grouptools directory.
• Edit the school services schedule template(s) to change "course" to "module." These files are installed in $CP_ROOT/webapps/luminis/WEB-INF/templates/services
• Change My Courses table to remove Dept. or Instructor column • Change thtml file (template) in
$CP_ROOT/webapps/luminis/WEB-INF/templates/services
• Open external links in TAs in a new window, targeted portal links in TAs in the same window• Change com.pipeline.grouptools.lib.GTHtml file • <a href=http://<portalURL
>/cp/tag.idempotent.render.userLayoutRootNode.uP?uP_root=root&parent=_top>
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Channel and Group Categories
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Channel and Group Categories
• Default categories are just placeholders!
• Set up categories during your portal planning, but be prepared to adjust them (just not so often that it confuses your users)
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Resources
• Luminis consultants• Luminis Developers Network
• http://www.lumdev.net/
• Luminis listservs• http://lists.sungardhe.com/lumplatform.html• http://lists.sungardhe.com/lumtech.html
• Other portals
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Summary
• The Luminis platform is infinitely flexible. The hardest job may be deciding what configuration changes and customizations will best suit your institutional and stakeholder needs.
• By all means, customize! Just be sure to document your changes.
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Questions & Answers
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Thank You!
Judi [email protected]
Please complete the online class evaluation formCourse ID 755
A special thank-you to the colleagues and clients who kindly provided many of the examples in this presentation: Norris Garrison, Kimberly Grassmeyer, Roger Johnson, Kathleen Reilly, Thomas Socash, Brad Vacura, George Varghese, Davenport University, Gloucester
County College, Messiah College, Montgomery College, Victoria University of Wellington
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