Transforming Portals from Gateways to Enablers of Institutional Goals

For some agencies, the long-term "gateway" reminds me of portal a body of online resources and services. Advanced portal and integration technology, far more than just a single portal. Portal may become the ultimate point of organizational integration, and community college can access the electronic services and resources In support of quality teaching and learning.

favorite institutions, Webster University has done a good work provide The basic Web services. We now offer students completed degree courses online. However, students can not carry out all of their Business of the University of electronics. At present, the Webster University of Web services more to do so, than isolated functions to meet the needs, they must be intertwined with the overall goal of the University of services to provide more access and convenience, in support of teaching and learning.

We determined that we must implement the new portal technology to achieve the following three objectives: • distribution capacity, Web content management throughout the agencies, while maintaining consistent presentation and navigation.

• provide a centralized and customized access from a single login.

• integration of all the basic data and applications.

Currently, we are implementing the process of teaching in small classes luminis software In order to achieve these goals. We look forward to the implementation, in order to complete in 2004 at the end.

maintain its presentation and navigation of Web content , like other institutions, our local, Focus is to allow easy and flexible access to our resources and curriculum. We have 100 education centres throughout the United States and seven international sites, including Switzerland, China, and Thailand.

every one of us to expand the site has its unique identity and message to students . Individual departments to the web site and the existence of, but not each location has entered a knowledge of the graphic designer or a good writer.

it is impossible for our IT staff to achieve the training of individuals in all of our website on how to develop good content for the Web and Good ties. The challenges we face is to provide the author in this distributed environment and tools they need get their content out on the Internet, Maintain consistent and user-friendly networks existence.

In order to solve this problem, we authorized the content management software, which will enable non-high-tech users throughout the world the tools needed to easily publish their unique content and an attractive and navigation framework. In addition, these These tools will allow us to the various locations, in order to maintain their Web content timely, essential to our success is the Web efforts. We understand that the efforts to create such a website is just the beginning. These pages must be maintained At present, otherwise, efforts are wasted.

implemented, this content management, will enable our staff worldwide management, a framework that provides a simple Easy-to-use, accessibility, and consistent on the universitys image online.