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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