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Find out about the latest innovations at MyAthens.
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Overview
• What is MyAthens?
• New functionality
– New panels
– Enhanced panel configuration
– Additional resources
– Customisation
• Branding
• What’s next?
What is MyAthens?
• User portal for Athens
• Central point of access to a user’s resources
• Customisable homepage with panels
• Users can update some account details• Forum• Help section
Customised Search Panels
• Enable your users to query existing search engines from MyAthens
– Create search panels in the Admin area
– Add advanced features such as drop-down lists and hidden fields
Web Content Panel
• Create panels with the content of your choice
– Use the WYSIWYG editor for simple content (text, lists, logos or links)
– Or the HTML editor for more advanced features (forms etc…)
Del.icio.us panel
• What is Del.icio.us?
– Social bookmaking service
– Users can store, share and discover web bookmarks.
– Users can tag bookmarks
• How is it relevant to MyAthens?
– Administrators and their users can bookmark non-Athens resources and use the existing Del.icio.us panel to display them in MyAthens
Del.icio.us panel
• So, what's new?
– Users can now filter their own bookmarks by tag
– Simply supply their (or their Organisation's) Del.icio.us username and choose the relevant tag from the drop-down list
Additional Resources
• New functionality allows administrators to add and allocate additional non-Athens protected resources
• These will then be merged with existing Athens protected resources in MyAthens
• Users can flag additional resources as favourites from the MyAthens resources page
Adding Additional Resources
• Additional resources added via the admin interface.– URL– Title– Description
Assigning your Additional Resources
• Additional resources can be allocated to permission sets
– Modify permission set page displays Athens resources and additional resources side-by-side
• New resources are merged with existing Athens protected resources in MyAthens
Restricting users' panels
• New functionality in the Administrator's Interface
– Restrict panels available from MyAthens panel chooser
– Define which panels are shown to users on first login
MyAthens Branding
• Addition of organisations' logos to MyAthens
• Administrators can upload an image via the Panel Options page in the Admin area
Future directions
• Pre-populated Delicious panel
• Notification section
– Announce new panels
– Organisation news
Most importantly we value your feedback, comments and suggestions!
Over to you…
• Any questions, comments or suggestions?
