myUIdaho Orientation

Darren Kearney

Agenda

• What is a portal?• How does this fit into our web strategy?• Why this portal product?• Who is this for? What are ‘Roles’?• Introducing myUIdaho.• Customization.• What does this provide for my

department.• Coming soon! (the future.)• Demonstration.

The Goal

“A campus portal will help transform the UI website into a highly responsive and productive workplace for the entire university community of users, including students, faculty, administrative staff, prospective students, alumni, donors, partners, parents, and visitors. Each user will get targeted information and services when he or she needs them

...anytime…anywhere”

What is our portal?

• Webster's defines a portal as…

The university portal experience will be defined by: The sites ability to know you and your assigned roles, and the customization by the customer and/or organization.

What is a portal?

• How do we organize our digital workspace currently?

• We can do better.

What is a portal?

Web Strategy

• SiteCore– Externally facing information.– Consistent interface for everyone.

• myUIdaho– Internally facing platform.– Personalized interface for each user.– Framework for adding content.

• Special Resources– Course websites (CTI).– Special request sites (Help Desk).

Web Strategy

Aggregated to your personalized myUIdaho experience.

Personal Content

External Web

Content

Internal Web

Content

Why this portal product?

• Works directly with Banner and Banner Self-service (VandalWeb).

• Has been adopted and refined by other Universities across the country.

• Supports the single sign-in model.• Works with services currently used

across campus.

Who is this for? What are ‘Roles’?

• myUidaho starts by assigning you to a role.– Staff– Faculty– Student

• Additional roles.– CLASS Student– Law Faculty– Retiree

Staff

Mathematics

Student

Who is this for? What are ‘Roles’?

• The roles that you’re assigned to will define the starting experience inside of myUIdaho.

• New roles can be added or removed as needed.

• Departments will be able to define the experience for their faculty, staff, and students based on roles.

Introducing myUIdaho

Introducing myUIdaho

• Logging in.– http://my.uidaho.edu– Uses your myUIdaho

username and password. This is the same as what you have been using for email, blackboard, AD, etc…

Introducing myUIdaho

• The introduction bar.

• Who are you?• Personal Settings.• Email.• Logout.• Help.

Introducing myUIdaho

• Tabs

• Tabs are assigned to each user based on the roles they are members of.

• User can create custom tabs.• Tabs can be reordered by the user.

Introducing myUIdaho

• Channels

• Added by roles.• Added by user.• Most can be moved.• User can define custom channels.

Customization

• Remove and add channels.• Move tabs into any order.• Create new tabs.• RSS feeds.

– Most sites have RSS pages.• Custom favorites.

Customization

• Changing the layout.

Customization

• RSS – Really Simple Syndication– Most information sites provide built in

RSS feed functionality.

Customization

• Create your own tabs to your digital workspaces.

What does this provide for my department.

• Reaching faculty, staff, and students through custom channels.

• Define the role for your department.

• Allows you to target information internally while maintaining external information.

Coming soon! (the future.)

• Phase II– Summer 2010 (tentative)– New portal version.– Students and Faculty functionality

is brought online. • Phase III

– 2011 (tentative)– Prospective students and alumni

included.– Integration of 3rd party application

and services.• Phase IV

– Ongoing development and integration with current and future campus systems.

Demonstration Time

*1024x768 vs. 1280x1024

Final Notes

• http://my.uidaho.edu• Roll out date is November 16th for

Staff and Faculty.• If you need assistance contact the

Help Desk.– 208-885-HELP (4357)– helpdesk@uidaho.edu

• Recommended resolution.– 1280x1024

Final Notes

• Potential Password Complications– To provide single sign-on there may

be complications with some characters in a password.

• Instead of using a space use the underscore or hyphen characters.

• Do not use: { } \ : =

Any Questions?