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1 Developing a next-generation campus Web Portal
David Weil & Benjamin Costello Copyright Ithaca College, This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author.

2 Welcome David Weil Benjamin Costello More information:
Director, Web, Systems & Departmental Services Benjamin Costello Manager, Web & eMedia Development More information: us Visit:

3 Presentation overview
Background What we developed Why we did what we did Technologies Used Demo Community Response Next Steps Q&A

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5 Ithaca College Private, residential undergraduate liberal arts college in upstate New York Comprehensive, masters one institution 5 schools, over 100 degree programs Faculty 463 FT / 216 PT Staff 800 FT / 190 PT Student FTE Undergraduate 6,000 Graduate 400

6 Web Roles & Governance Web Strategy Group
Executive oversight Reviews & approves policies, guidelines and resource needs Web Strategy Group Technical Leadership Web & eMedia developers Hosting services Information Technology Services Shares responsibility with ITS for managing the college’s Web presence Marketing Communications

7 Web Strategy Group Membership
Vice Presidents: VP for Institutional Advancement VP for Finance and Administration VP for Enrollment Management Designee for the Vice President for Student Affairs Designee for Provost / Academic Affairs IT Management: Assoc. VP for Information Technology Services Director of Web, Systems and Dept. Services** Manager of Web Development Marketing Executive Director of Marketing Communications** Associate Director of Web Marketing Director of Admission

8 Project Background False Advertising? Buyer’s Remorse?
We had myIthaca, an award winning Web portal-like resource for prospective students… …but, once they matriculated they were faced with a vastly inferior Web experience Increased focus on retention False Advertising? Buyer’s Remorse?

9 High-Level Goals Provide a “home” for a person’s Web activities
Single entry point Lightweight implementation Offer myIthaca-like experience for current students Improved communication Between college and IC community Within IC community Increase satisfaction by making… Common transactions more intuitive, easier & online Information easier to find

10 “Lightweight” Leverages existing Web services and content
Simple user interface for portal presentation and interaction Built using existing technology infrastructure Political sensitivity to the concept of implementing a “Portal”

11 Options Considered Oracle Portal Luminis Portal / Campus Pipeline
uPortal Doing it ourselves

12 Development Work Started Summer 2007 Researched Options
August 2008 Release 1 Spring 2008 Alpha Version – Jan Public Beta – March Fall 2007 Development Work Started Summer 2007 Researched Options Proposal Created and Funded Spring 2007 Web Strategy Group Defined Need

13 Why Do It Ourselves? Leverage existing work
Wanted a “Web 2.0” experience Work in our heterogeneous environment Avoid a heavy enterprise implementation Ability to integrate with non-campus services Make use of evolving web standards Leverage existing work Content management infrastructure Authentication frameworks Existing Web-based services Avoid a heavy enterprise implementation No new servers Smaller overall impact on staff resources Web 2.0 experience Ability to bring in non-campus services (i.e.: Facebook, Gmail) Stay technology-independent and use web standards Remain lightweight and flexible as web services evolve

14 What We Developed A Web 2.0 Portal Experience
Drag and drop interactivity for arranging layout and adding new content Dynamic auto-refreshing content w/intelligent caching An Ithaca College Experience Integrated Webmail, Calendaring, and single-sign-on brokering to most campus web services An Aggregated Web Experience Access to 3rd party accounts (Yahoo,Gmail,IMAP) Facebook, RSS feeds, bus schedules, etc.

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WWW (Public Web) myHome Webmail Calendar myIthaca (Prospective Students) Self Service CMS Directory Services Other Web Services ERP myHome relationships with other services

16 Technologies Behind The Scenes
Javascript Controls interactive interface AJAX calls refresh content and update preferences XML Defines basic portal configuration Defines portlets and their functionality Stores all user customization settings PHP / mySQL Integrate with and allow Ajax to refresh data from external systems Facilitate authentication, session management and single-sign-on brokering Integration with our CMS

17 Resources Web developer / designer resource
Year one (inception to release 1.0): 1 FTE Year two: ½ FTE On-going: ¼ FTE Concept development and project management Additional technical support (minimal) Runs on existing servers Web server - Sun hardware, Solaris, Apache, PHP mySQL server – Sun hardware, Solaris, mySQL

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23 Community Content Community Portlets Community Tabs
FIRST YEAR STUDENTS Resources for new students PHYSICS MAJORS Resources for Physics CAMPUS HAPPENINGS What’s going on

24 Campus-Wide Rollout Released at start of Fall 2008 semester
Ads in student paper Intercom Announcements Posters around campus Use is currently optional

25 Community Response I absolutely love the new myHome! This is amazing!
This is AWESOME. Serious props to whoever brought this idea into existence. This is one of the best ideas Ithaca has ever had!

26 Total # of people who have logged into myHome

27 Unique Logins Per Day by Type
Total Logins Per Day

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29 Future plans Redirect Webmail users to myHome interface
Social Networking features Mobile access Entry point for all web-based services

30 For more information Information Site: www.ithaca.edu/myhome eMail us:
Video tutorials & screenshots Background information Copy of this presentation us:

31 Q&A

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