What would a good uPortal sample user experience include?
Role Scenarios
General
- Receive alerts
- Read news and announcements (on- & off-campus news)
- Check university email
- Check today's schedule
- Access information on upcoming events
- Bookmarks
- Campus maps and buildings
- Bus and shuttle schedules
- Parking and transportation
- Personal information
"We plan to continue hiding a lot of detail until requested by the user... (i.e. we might show a quick "you have 8 new email messages in your university box, 15 new g-mail messages, 2 facebook messages, 3 myspace messages" – and then click on one of those to see the headers/previews)."
Student
- Check status of social networking websites
- Check balances on accounts (dining plans, flexible spending accounts, printing, etc)
- Course offerings and registration
- Check class schedule
- Check official grades when they come out
- Register personal computer with the university network
- Financial information
- Dining menu
"Increasingly, students are using the portal as their home page, and logging in frequently. They now expect it to be the place where they'll see any breaking/important information - and in return we've promised to keep the noise as low as possible."
Faculty
- Access resources related to the courses they are teaching (CMS, web sites, library reserves, class lists)
- Access grading system
- Look up advisees
Staff
- Links/integration to administrative applications
- Find HR documents
- Vacation & sick leave balances
- View their own open Help Desk cases
Resultant Sample uPortal layout ideas
Guest Layout
Tab Name 1
- Content 1
- Content 2
Tab Name 2
- Content 1
- Content 2
Personalized Layout
Tab Name 1
- Content 1
- Content 2
Tab Name 2
- Content 1
- Content 2