Web Portal Development with u. Portal or. Net Midwest Educause: March 24 -26, 2003 David B. Williams (dave. williams@ilstu. edu) Mark Troester (troester@ilstu. edu) Copyright [your name] [year]. 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.
Overview • • Planning Demonstration Anecdotal Confirmation of Success Lessons Learned
Planning: Problem • • Need for virtual one-stop student services Legacy databases (d. B 2) for student records No enterprise systems like People. Soft or SCT Need to move from Cobol/CICS to Java/XML development • Different reporting lines: Web services, Internet services, Administrative services, and others • Minimal budget
Planning: Needs “Building a Technology Friendly Campus” Educating Illinois Individualized Attention, Public Opportunity, Active Pursuit of Learning, Diversity, Creative Response to Change
Planning: Solution • • • In-house development Work within $500 K budget UF Eagle XML middleware u. Portal w/Sun hardware Consultant for development and mentoring (Unicon/IBS)
Planning: Budget
Planning: Strategy • • Mentoring with outside help (train our staff) Low-cost solutions (u. Portal, Eagle, Sun) Lots of campus input and buy-in: early, not later Planning before coding (users first, tech issues later) • Flexibility, design customization to our needs • Stickies (need really useful things)
Results • Made our 1 -year timeline for development and first online test • 3000+ new freshman used for summer Preview program • More features than conservative planning proposed • All 20 K students by Spring 2003 with grade reporting and voting
Hardware Diagram
Hardware Environment • • Developers workstations Test server Quality Assurance Production • Two portal database, Post. Gres • CVS version control
i. Campus Demo • 23 channels live with 6 in production • Of the first 10, 000 students with access, 7, 600 logged on, 5% change their layout • The University Announcements Channel • When grades were released, 2300 students logged in the first minute • LDAP authentication
Login
Home
Redbird
Transactions
Schedule
Schedule/Map
Text Books
Grades
GPA 2
Financial Aid
Financial Aid 2
Voting
Registration
Registration 2
Login
Anecdotal Confirmation of Success • • It’s not a technical problem, “So”? The GPA Calculator is the #1 channel Students will always surprise us, swapping Confirmation from India Thanks for the errors, debit card 180 degrees from last year, advisors Not sending wheelchairs across campus Instructor’s email address works for athletes who always have time conflicts
Lesson’s Learned • Collaboration works (JA-SIG, u. Portal, Eagle, Unicon/IBS, others) • Freebies work (Web. CT, announcements, and e-mail channels, u. Portal revs) • Team building of users and tech support works • Communication works (Passages, Preview. . ) • Poor-person’s budget strategy works
Web Portal Development with u. Portal or. Net David B. Williams, dave. williams@ilstu. edu Associate Vice President for Information Technology Mark Troester, troester@ilstu. edu Director Institutional Web Support
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