Active Campus Portal – Screenshots

by Michael Santoroski on October 30, 2009

Here is a screenshot of the upcoming replacement for MyRC with the Roanoke College branding in place. The new portal will be released on January 5, 20105.

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Features include:

  • Integrated view of Outlook calendar and class schedule
  • Blackboard
  • Webadvisor
  • My ToDo list
  • Weather
  • Password Change
  • Daily Announcements
  • Team Sites
  • College News, Sports News & Dining Menu
  • Personal & College bookmarks

Much information is coming soon!

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We have just launched a new look for Web Announcer, which is now being called the “Daily e-mail.” This look is a continuation of the redesign of enews and now there is now a consistent look between the two. It contains all of the same information, just with a different layout. We will also have news stories from the college home page, or RC News Blog inside the Daily e-mail. Only new announcements will appear in the email, however to see all announcements, just click “View More” at the top right of the announcements section.

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The Daily e-mail home page has also gotten a face lift to match the template associated with other internal applications like Maroon Passport and Student Evaluations.

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We hope you like the look of the new Daily e-mail. Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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New Portal Coming in Early 2010

August 14, 2009

The web development group began working this summer on a new Portal to replace MyRC. After looking at several options we choose to go with Datatel’s Active Campus Portal, which is based on Microsoft Sharepoint Services.
The benefits of this new portal will be:

Better integration of Datatel course information
Custom sites for each course – with links [...]

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eduWeb ‘09 Twitter, Facebook and My Space (?)

July 22, 2009

At the eduWeb conference Twitter has reached total penetration. Nearly everyone raised their hand when asked if they were on Twitter in a session I went to (of course, it was a session about Twitter). Many of my peers still report that upper management and other stake holders don’t “get it.” And 70% of higher [...]

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My Dinner with Ingeniux

July 21, 2009

I am in Chicago at the EduWeb Conference. The fine folks at Ingeniux sponsored the opening reception. I got to spend some time with Jim, Nathan and Andrew chatting about Roanoke’s experiences with Ingeniux and the future of the Ingeniux CMS.
I suggested that they have some user group meetings, and they told me they are [...]

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Ingeniux Upgraded

June 18, 2009

Tonight I performed an upgrade to the Ingeniux Content Management Server for the main college site. We are now now running version 6.0 Service Release 5. The big news is that Ingeniux CMS now supports Internet Explorer 8.0. And the “remember me” feature seems to work now!
Here are the official release notes from Ingeniux.com
Ingeniux CMS [...]

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Introducing the New eNews Design

June 14, 2009

Starting with the June issue we are introducing a new simpler design for the monthly Roanoke College eNews. We will be reduce eNews from five versions to one.

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Introducing the New Athletics Site Design

June 12, 2009

We got the final comps from New City and approved them yesterday. These designs will be implemented by ICS Sidearm, and the new site will go live in August.
Here they are. Put your thoughts in the comments.
Home Page Design

Sport Page

Generic Page

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Picasa for Higher Ed Image Management

May 29, 2009

One of my Twitter friends, Rachel Reuben, was recently asking about our experience with Picasa and  I emailed her my pros and cons.  I decided to post that information here, as it might be helpful to others.  We had Extensis Portfolio right when I started working here and nobody particularly liked it.  We tried several [...]

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Behind the Scenes

May 1, 2009

Here’s some photos and a video from behind the scenes at our latest video shoot of the Roanoke College Choir at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Roanoke.

Our videographer, Steve Mason, used the jib for this shoot and we got some amazing sweeping shots.  I can’t wait to see the footage.

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