Post on 04-Jan-2016
Tour of Client Portals
Kevin Maurerkmaurer@hillsdale.eduInformation Systems ManagerHillsdale College
Matt Jeltemamjeltema@calvin.eduAssociate Director of Information SystemsCalvin College
• Founded in 1844• Private (No Government Funds). • Undergraduate and Grad school. • Located in Hillsdale, Michigan• 1370 FTE• Colleague R18/SQL since 2005• Live on Datatel Portal in December 2008
About Hillsdale College
• Met with Faculty chairs and core team.• Opened the portal up before “Go Live”• Postcards passed out at registration• Student attrition helped
Hillsdale - Preparing Your Users
• SSO to e-mail, WebAdvisor, and UI are attention grabbers!
• Configure search for all your websites, not only the Portal
• Convert “All Campus” messages to portal announcements or events (less e-mail=good)
• Other Examples:– Employee Newsletter Archive– Buy/sell/trade (other exchange public folders)
Hillsdale - Easy Wins
• Single Constituency vs. Primary Constituency.• Use of Audiences instead of Constituency.• We are now live on Microsoft 365 mail.
Hillsdale - Changes since go-live
About Calvin College
TownMapsUSA.com
Calvin – the
Calvin – project time line
Made with Office Timeline 2010www.officetimeline.com
2010Jun Sep Dec Mar Jun Sep Dec Mar Jun
2012Portal look and feel updates
August 2012
July 2012
Course catalog launchesMarch 2012
KnightVision (old LMS and portal) goes awayJune 2011
Portal launchesMay 1, 2011
MoodleAugust 2010
Phase IIPhase IDecision
Moodle 2.x
• Faculty and Staff advisors• Replace lost functionality• Portal 3.0 out-of-the-box• Moodle ‘front-end’ links• SharePoint governance• Naming contest
• Review feedback• Health check• Added functionality:
• Course Catalog• Moodle (ILP) ‘back-end’
• Expand team sites• Improve usability
Quiet implementation Refine and Expand
2011
Computing Environment
• Colleague (1989)• R18 (2007)• UniData
Calvin – (big?) (easy?) wins
• https://my.hillsdale.edu
• https://portal.calvin.edu
Demo
Questions?
Kevin Maurerkmaurer@hillsdale.eduInformation Systems ManagerHillsdale College
Matt Jeltemamjeltema@calvin.eduAssociate Director of Information SystemsCalvin College