Tour of Client Portals Kevin Maurer [email protected] Information Systems Manager Hillsdale College Matt Jeltema [email protected] Associate Director.

Tour of Client Portals

Kevin [email protected] Systems ManagerHillsdale College

Matt [email protected] 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

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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 [email protected] Systems ManagerHillsdale College

Matt [email protected] Director of Information SystemsCalvin College