Technology Advisory Group

The major update to the my.scranton portal (run on Luminis software) that we’ve been talking about for a while is now scheduled for next spring break (March/April 2013). Joe Casabona in IR has been convening a group of faculty, staff, and students to discuss how we can make the new design as efficient and useful as possible. The new version of Luminis is much more flexible and has a lot of new features, so we’ll be able to make pages that are dynamic and functional instead of just lists of links. We discussed the possibility of an app-style model, with modules or apps based on functions or tasks (e.g., parking, event planning, travel…), so that each user could add or prioritize the modules they use most.

I’m providing early input on a new faculty tab (which will become a “community”), and I’d like to get some feedback from a few faculty members so that I can draft up a demo version with Joe to share more broadly.  If you have time over Thanksgiving break, please do me a favor and answer a few questions for me:

1. What tasks do you need to do on an everyday basis?
2. On the current my.scranton page, what links/items do you use most?
3. On the current my.scranton page, what links/items do you rarely or never use?
4. What do you wish were on the current my.scranton page?

If you’d like, you can answer 2, 3, and 4 by writing on or annotating these screenshots (PDF) – circle the links you use most, strike out the items you never use, and write in the items you wish were there.

Send your feedback to me directly by interoffice mail or at kristen.yarmey@scranton.edu, and let me know if you’d like to be involved in designing a demo version. Thanks!