Creating Campus Portals - Build Your Own

Today we begin a three-part introduction to strategies for creating campus web portals: Build Your Own; Partner with other Campuses, and Work with a Vendor. One approach used by early adopters in this area is to build your own. Creating your own web portal requires a mature information technology department and significant amounts of budget and development time. In today's campus environment, where technology support personnel are both a scarce resource and difficult to retain, there are additional challenges with support and maintenance. However if your plans are to provide user access to significant amounts of indivualized campus data or if your campus systems are home-developed programs, a build-your-own approach may be the best solution.

Additional information on this approach along with linked examples and a case study from Villanova University may be found at - http://weber.edu/portals/build_your_own.htm

We enjoy reading your thoughts and reactions both to the concepts of campus portals and this course.  Thank you for your continued participation.

dave

P.S.   As this course progresses we are adding additional support mechanisms.  A map of the course syllabus together with links to each of the cover e-mails is available at -
http://weber.edu/portals/course_map.htm