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State and Consortium Sites
Portals
These collaborative sites have multiple student service functions
or present a wide range of information. There has been a growing
trend in the development of state-wide or consortial multiple services
sites. The use of the term "portal" has also been growing,
and changing – it has expanded to run from sites with lots
of local links to customizeable and personalizeable websites with
back-end databases.
State and Consortium Sites
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Colorado Mentor
http://coloradomentor.org/
A Mentor™ system is an online resource to help students
and their families select a college, apply for admission, and
plan to finance higher education. ColoradoMentor™ offers total
access to information and admissions applications for degree-granting
colleges and universities within Colorado.
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OnlineCSU
http://onlinecsu.ctstateu.edu/
The Connecticut University State System offers OnlineCSU, the
virtual classroom of the four Connecticut State Universities.
It offers online courses as well as academic and student services.
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Florida's Online Gateway for College Information
http://www.facts.org/
FACTS.org is a central web resource for planning and managing
your higher education experience from choosing a college, picking
a major, or financial aid information.
- EduKan
http://www.edukan.org/
EduKan is a six-member Kansas community college consortia that
offers courses via the Internet. The goal for their student services
"is to provide any essential campus service via the Internet."
- Kentucky Virtual University
http://www.kyvu.org/
KYVU serves as a clearinghouse for a growing list of online learning
opportunities. Kentucky was the first state in the country to
offer its residents a comprehensive package of online educational
resources: a virtual university, a virtual high school (www.kvhs.org)
and a virtual library, including research help from reference
librarians (www.kyvl.org). Its student services include a call
center and 24/7 help desk.
- MarylandOnline
http://www.marylandonline.org
MarylandOnline is a statewide, inter-segmental consortium. Through
collaboration among Maryland community colleges, colleges, and
universities, MarylandOnline facilitates students' access to articulated
courses, certificates, and degree programs offered via distance.
It offers a Student Toolbox with student services.
Portals
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My University Portals FAQ V1.0
http://www.usask.ca/web_project/uwebd/portals_faq.html
This FAQ is divided up into five sections: defines what a universtiy
portal is, describes what a university portal looks like, assesses
at the benefits to individuals and universities of having a
university portal, discusses how to go about implementing a
portal, and provides other resources.
- uPortal
http://mis105.mis.udel.edu/ja-sig/uportal/
uPortal is a free, sharable portal under development by institutions
of higher-education. Customization allows each user to define
a unique and personal view of the campus Web. Community tools,
such as chat, forums, survey, and so on, build relationships among
campus constituencies.
uPortal is an open-standard effort using Java, XML, JSP and J2EE.
It is a collaborative development project with the effort shared
among several of the JA-SIG member institutions. You may download
uPortal and use it on your site at no cost.
- UT Direct
http://utdirect.utexas.edu/utdirect/
University of Texas portal offers HTML and Flash demos of its
portal for UT students, faculty, staff and visitors. The demos
show the portal's customizeable and personalizeable features.
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MyUW
http://www.washington.edu/protos/myuw/demo/
MyUW provides the University of Washington with an infrastructure
for providing targeted, personalized, online services to different
audiences. These are mockups only, to demonstrate what might
be possible in the MyUW environment to stimulate thinking and
discussion towards designing actual services. Many of the services
shown in these mockups do not currently exist at the UW, and
many links do not go to any real web sites.
- University of Minnesota's One Stop
http://onestop.umn.edu/
One Stop is a customizeable and personalizeable portal for students,
faculty and staff. Guests may enter the portal by clicking the
My OneStop link and following registration instructions.
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MyUB, University at Buffalo
http://www.buffalo.edu/aboutmyub/
MyUB is a winner of IBM's Best Practices award. A dynamic planning
tool, MyUB delivers customized information specific both to
individual users and their academic or professional interests.
Faculty, graduate student, and undergraduate student demos of
the site are available.
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BruinWalk, UCLA
http://bruinwalk.com
Bruinwalk is a portal built by students for students. It offers
useful features such as e-mail, file storage, an online calendar
and reviews of over 2500 UCLA professors. The bruinwalk network
is open to any person or organization that wants to use the
web to provide a service to students.
- MyUCLA Portal
http://my.ucla.edu/
The MyUCLA portal allows guests to sample a portal environment.
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