my.umich.edu partial integration of dynamic services with visual design
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my.umich.edu
Partial Integration of Dynamic Services with Visual Design
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Agenda
Project orientation Demonstration Questions
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Project Orientation Topics
Background Design Features Benefits Next Steps Summary
Background
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U-M Gateway (www.umich.edu)
Traditional “static” web site– Text, images, links– Passive information delivery– “Publish once” model
Recognized as successful web project– 2nd among universities in July 2000
Making improvements to searching and links my.umich builds on Gateway project success
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my.umich – Phase 1
Intent– Provide powerful, extensible, low-cost framework for
web-based services
Audience selection by Provost and CIO Undergraduate students targeted
– Current students first– Prospective students next– Expanded audiences will follow
Design
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Requirements
Studies– User roles and tasks identified– Benchmark studies for portals, services
Student Input – Services selected in response to student surveys– Student portal use research conducted– Pre-release usability testing in progress– Ongoing student input planned
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Web Technologies Selected
Portal Web site– Personalized, customized Web space– Dynamic information delivery– Suite of service packages
WebObjects development tool selected– Powerful, modular applications– Useable with unmodified, secure browsers– Built-in access to most database products
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Not Static Web Site
Create framework to deliver many types of dynamic information
Anticipate rapid expansion of services Enable easy, flexible organization of selected
services Keep users and user tasks at the center of
design
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Personalized
You’ll be remembered! You’ll find things the way you left them.– But your privacy will be protected.
Depending on your role(s) within the university, some services will be available, other won’t.
Appropriate information can be directed to you.
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Customizable
Easy defaults provided Create additional pages to meet your needs. Arrange, label your pages as you wish. Add or remove services to suit your interests. Choose services, information you want to use.
– List of Services always available for selections.
Your settings will be saved.
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Non-Customizable Areas
University bulletins and announcements Institutional “message” themes
– Making History– Many targeted themes possible
Departmental bulletins and announcements– Targeted by role(s)– Integrated into individual services
Features
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Initial Service Offerings
University bulletins & announcements News headlines & summaries Classifieds Portable personal bookmarks Web-based BCP IMAP e-mail Campus on-line directory lookup
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Initial Services …
Personal Information Manager– Personal calendar– Personal course schedule– To do list– Address book (may be by October)
Help Feedback
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Limitations of Initial Release
Audience– Focused on students
Access– Open to everyone with
uniqname, rights to U-M Basic Computing Package
Services– Some with limited features
Personalization– No targeted information
delivery
Customization– No additional customized
pages beyond front page
Graphic design– No options to change look
Benefits
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U-M Participants
Designed to supplement, not replace other Web environments
Provide personal web-based services– Personalized, appealing to users– Appropriate to user needs by role(s)– Customized starting point for institutional
information, community building
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U-M Service Providers
Provide targeted service environment– Draws your users back to your services– Enables communication to specific groups
Lowers barriers to being service provider– Allows greater focus on content and services– No requirement to create in WebObjects but can use
extensible framework
Potential development of sharable resources– Coordinated system of data access between units
Next Steps
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my.umich Partnerships
U-M Libraries– Working to integrate library services with my.umich
CIC, ResComp– Events calendar(s) integration into my.umich PIM– WebObjects data entry forms
Many others have expressed interest Explore service provider partnerships
– Contact Linda Place ([email protected])
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Timeline
Now through late August– Integration completion– Code debugging– Usability testing with students– Help documentation & support training
August 28– Target public release date
January– New services added
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Communications
Project information on Web– www.cio.umich.edu/office/ (link)– www.umich.edu/~myumich/
Questions about project– [email protected]
Announcement email list (joinable)– [email protected]
Summary
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my.umich Integrated Service Environment
Web-based access to valued tools and information
Access rights defined by role(s) User-centered environment design Dynamic information delivery from diverse data
sources Services delivered in common framework
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Project Overview Highlights
Creating new, useful, innovative web environment for students
Dynamic, not static web site Supplement to, not replacement for other
campus web environments Opportunity for community building
Demonstration