Student Portal Kick-off

March 31, 2014

• Team• Scope• Development Plan• Long-term Timeline

Agenda

• Frank Feagans – Executive Sponsor• Nikolas Glazier-Hodge – Student Portal Dir.• Melody Buckner – Functional Owner• Tracy Powers – Online Program Manager• Brett Bendickson – Solution Architect• Lauren Sekora – PM/BA Web presence• Margaret Flint – Sr. Business Analyst• TBD – Business Office Business Analyst• Student Representation – Design and Testing

Team

• Create a singular, mobile friendly, entry point for all student services

• Define a model of student engagement in both the design and testing of the portal

• Nurture an Online Culture that caters to specific needs of all student populations

• Collaborate across teams and other Universities and Colleges to learn and grow

• Communicate consistently, bi-directionally

Scope Building Blocks

What is a Portal

• One place for information access

• Singular place for student communications

• Blending of the plethora of data points for central use

• Streamlining presentation of information

• Entrance point for LMS• Support vehicle

• A page of links• A replacement for current

applications• A panacea for student

success and retention

Is… Is not…

• We will be leveraging our existing Modo relationships based on the quality of the product– Speed to market– Flexibility– Cost– Mobile first- Flipping the paradigm

• Supplemental resources needed– PHP developer– CSS developer– Additional licensing for the desktop version

• Local server (TBD)

Development Plan

Student Portal TimelineCurrent 6 months Year 1 Year 3 Year 5

• Multiple logins• Frustrating for

users• Lack of integration

• Beginning UAccess integration• Centralize

communications• Communicate,

engage, & learn

• Complete UAccess Integration• LMS Integration• More Programs• Google Apps

• Integrate applications for faculty and staff• Add functionality

for event• coordination

• One web access point for all students, faculty, staff, alumni ,and families• Full lifecycle of

student data