The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga uses the Ellucian Luminis portal to allow students access to their data and registration services. Built on the Open Source Liferay portal, it also serves as a central authentication service for other services utilizing it's single-sign-on capabilities. During UTC's upgrade from version four to five of Luminis, Dan Chase investigated deploying static content used in Luminis with OU Campus CMS. While the campus knew allowing department users to edit dedicated special purpose content as they did in version four would be easier in five, campus officials wanted to move editing into the same interface they were using everyday to maintain their website. Doing so also allows better access control, with less complexity. Chase will share the trials & tribulations of what it takes to provide a better services to departmental users, while making the management of those services easier from an information technology perspective.

1. A Walk Down
Portal Lane
Integrating the use of Ellucian Luminis
Portal with OU Campus
C. Daniel Chase
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

2. Disclaimer
Not What You Expected
Where we are today
The Path to a Student Gateway

3. Today
Luminis Platform 4
RHEL 4
Banner

4. Current MyMocsNet

5. Why Luminis?
It talks Banner-ese
But, do we use it?
Targeted content
Are channels updated?

6. How is it Being Used - Single Sign On
Banner
Gmail
Blackboard LMS
DegreeWorks

7. How is it Being Used - Banner Channels
Students
Profile
Advisors
Grades
Surveys
!
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Faculty
Schedule
Advisor Dashboard
Grade Assignment

8. What Else?
Text Content
Links to main site
Targeted messages

9. How to Replace Luminis
SSO moves to Central Authentication Services
(CAS)
Channels move to Banner SSB

10. What about Content?
OmniUpdate’s OU Campus CMS
WordPress

11. Targeted Content
RSS
RSS Items in OU Campus
Blog feeds
Entry expiration

12. Targeted Email
Eliminate
Students don’t read it!
Few departments use it
Labor & time intensive
One-time use mailing list

13. What about Faculty?
Banner SSB with CAS-based login
Move to an employee portal
SharePoint
Better services for internally focused content
Already in use!
Dedicated admin

14. Student Gateway
Essential Links
Static content
RSS Feeds

15. Secret Sauce
The Amazon Model
Preferences for RSS feeds
Store in Cookie
Login to save across public computers

16. The Challenge
Change resistance
Is this what Students want?
Can it be done better?
Should it be done differently?
Content writing education for creators

17. Possibilities
Cost savings
Interview / survey students
Investigate options
Technology options - Drupal?

18. Desired Results
A means of providing resources and
communicating relevant content to students

19. Questions?
C. Daniel Chase
Dan-Chase@UTC.edu
@cdchase
(423) 425-2913