Portal
Overview
USD’s new Portal, My.Sandiego, will provide students, staff, faculty, and others associated with the university with fast, one-stop, personalized access to campus-wide information. The Portal will use a consistent web-based user interface to present information from a variety of data sources. Content will be personalized and customizable depending on an individual’s interests and roles.
When fully implemented, all users—faculty, staff, students, parents and alumni—will be able to access all of their permitted information with a “single sign-on” through our secure web-based portal. With one username and password, for example, faculty and staff will be able to access a customized portal homepage, retrieve email, access payroll and benefits information, see upcoming events, communicate with custom groups, maintain calendars, see important announcements, manage personal information and much more.
Using a “Think Big, Start Small” philosophy, MySandiego will be built iteratively. Phase I will focus on basic content that is currently available on unet.sandiego.edu, web registration, email and calendar access, and links to services, such as WebCT. Subsequent phases will widen the implementation by expanding the constituency to prospective students, parents and alumni and adding new services as the student system implementation progresses.
The initial implementation of My.Sandiego will include:
- Access to the new Mirapoint webmail and calendar system
- Access to the library system
- All systems accessed via the current Unet portal.
- Links to WebReg, DARS, WebCT, and Resource 25
- Targeted announcements
Our deployment of the portal will provide centralized management of primary functions with a widely distributed deployment model of individual content. The design goal is for the viewer to reach information and services in 3 clicks or less, via single sign-on, and to customize the portal layout.
Our goal with My.Sandiego is to create an online community where users can efficiently find information and collaborate. We want it to be the best web resource possible for our campus community. As such, it will constantly evolve, feedback from students, faculty and staff and student system implementation milestones guiding this evolution.
Project Team
The portal implementation is one of the subprojects within the main SunGard Banner/Luminis Implementation Project and will follow the project hierarchy in terms of Project Sponsor and executive steering committee; however, the team will function independently in terms of portal implementation.
Project Manager: Indra Bishop
Portal Advisory Group
- Composed of decision makers or influencers from each division of USD
- Acts as a clearinghouse for information about the project
- Facilitates coordination with other teams
Members:
- Dr. Tom Herrinton, Associate Provost - Academic Affairs
- Chris Wessells, CIO - Information Technology Services
- Terry Kalfayan, Controller - Finance & Admin
- Kathe Myrick, Dir., Resource Mgmt - Student Affairs
- Mike James, Dir., Web Marketing - University Relations
- Indra Bishop, Dir., Portal Services - Project Manager
- Rhett Buttle - Associated Students President
Policies and Administration Team
- Creates policies, procedures and guidelines for portal administration
Members:
- Karen Reed, Di.r, IT Policy and Planning - Team Lead
- Tom Herrinton, Associate Provost
- Michael Catanzaro, Special Projects, Finance & Admin.
- Indra Bishop, Project Manager
- Rhett Butle, Associated Students President
Design Team
- Responsible for designing the visual look and feel of USD’s portal in compliance with USD’s branding policies.
- Designs default layouts for specific user groups
Members
- Mike James - Team Lead
- Joy Brunetti
- Jayna McLeod
- Omar Morales
- Bill Roecker
- Nicholas Severson
- Julie Wright
- Sharon Cooper
Training Team
- Will coordinate the training needs identification for all USD divisions with respect to content creation, content delivery, and end user training
Members
- Karen Kitchen
- Andrew Maller
- Barbara Bauerman
- Shiva Ayalasomayajula
Content Team
- Responsible for creating a blueprint for publishing and managing the content on the Portal.
Members
- Mike James, Kathe Myrick
- Diane Callahan, Jason Schreiber
- Tom Herrinton, Jim Gump, Jane Usatin
- Lisa Bach, Valeri Villi, Sue Bugbee
- Mike Catanzaro, Chien Le, Teresa Donnelly-Majors
- Indra Bishop, Karen Reed, Joy Brunetti
- Michael O’Brien, Shahra Meshkaty
- Beth Yanez, Jennifer Fernandez
Project Details
- Luminis Planning Kick-off & Workshop (July 18-20) Presentation
[pdf
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Sept 11th [pdf
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- Luminis Content Planning Workshop October 3-4 [pdf
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- Luminis Test Implementation testportal.sandiego.edu
Oct 6th [pdf
112 KB]
- Organizational Readiness & Content
Planning Oct 17-18 [pdf
132 KB]
- Student Focus Group – Oct 26th [pdf
220 KB]
- Luminis Content Administrator
Training Oct 31- Nov 1 [pdf
104 KB]
- Luminis – All Hands Meeting Nov 20th [pdf
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- Luminis Product Certification workshop
Dec 5-7 [pdf
276 KB]
