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Strategies and tactics to develop an MSU Web Portal
PowerPoint presentations
Student LTR version
LTR version
Portal: introduction and review
"Retail" user benefit: streamline complex services to students, faculty and staff
Offer web-enabled processes
Consolidate/simplify access
Extend/expand information
Employee benefit: simplify complex processes
Automate processes that are now manual
Manage information to eliminate the FAQs
Proactively anticipate growth and other service enhancements
Intuitively integrate paper-based processes
Background/history
Student technology roundtable request to ITS
Student senate approved preliminary funding
Portal survey report
(96KB DOC) (Results of student surveys of features for proposed MSU web portal).
The survey of students revealed:
Top requested features require login:
Course registration
Check grades
Read/send e-mail
Other top features requested:
weather
concerts/movies/music
news
sports
Other important items
Working with Colgate University/St. Cloud State University Consortium
Embody technology and project best-practices
Reflect constituents' values in the planning, development, and deployment process
Orderly process
Phased delivery
Constituent input/ownership (team building
Sample university web portals
UC Davis: home-grown application
University at Buffalo
George Washington U
Colgate University
U of Wisconsin, Madison
Baylor University: two versions
UConn
Development process
Prototype
to promote discussion
Consider key
content
options:
MavMAIL
IMS (Ucompass Educator) functionality
ISRS connections
Integration of outside content into modules
Consider
feature
set:
Channel selection/subscription
Page arrangement
Design options
Build prototype
Test
Deploy pilot (May 3)
Add features
Roll out release version (August)
Teambuilding process
Identify stakeholders
Groups: students, faculty, staff
Organizations: colleges, departments, offices, programs
Set up task force
collect design-phase data
evaluate needs, technologies, options, costs
identify funding sources
draft and communicate plan
Assign members to work groups
Project oversight
(resources, technical,database, etc.)
Constituent buy-in/campus support
(communication)
Content features
(modules, key functionality; priorities)
Navigation and design
(overall look and feel)
Portal usability