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PORTAL Focus Group

Liz Pearce / Ruth Martin

2003

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Institutional Portals

• Provides access to the information,

services and applications you need.

• Is a presentation layer – integrating

and aggregating new and existing

systems

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Information & Services might be…

• Internal

- VLE

- Student Records

- Library System

• External

- BBC News

- LTSN Website

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PORTAL Project

Looking at two main areas:

- How users feel about portals, what features they

would like to see.

- What types of external information users would

like included in the portal and how they would

like them presented.

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Question 1

• Which one feature appealed to you most?

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Question 2

• What might be the potential benefits of such systems?

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Question 3

• What might be the potential draw backs of such systems?

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Question 4

• What types of internal content would be useful?

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Question 5

• What types of external content would be useful?

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Personal View

• What else would be useful for you?