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University of Arizona Awarded a Grant for myCampus Portal Project

By University Communications
July 8, 2009

The University of Arizona is in the initial stage of building a campus portal that will provide "one-stop shopping" access to academic, business and social information for all students, faculty and staff. Input for creating the portal will be solicited from various constituents across campus.

The UA selected CampusEAI Consortium's Enterprise myCampus, a Software as a Service (SaaS) Web 2.0 campus portal solution to provide this service. The UA's Enterprise myCampus Portal will support the institution's strategic plan of improving the University's operational effectiveness in spite of funding challenges.

An in-kind grant from the CampusEAI Consortium to the UA of more than $1 million worth of products and services over the next five years will develop and support the myCampus portal.

In addition to receiving goods and services as part of a grant, the UA will also participate in assessing the effectiveness of the portal and propose new applications and improvements for upcoming updates of the product.

The UA's myCampus includes the following features:

QuickLaunch – Single-Sign-On Integration to systems such as:

  • Peoplesoft
  • Kuali
  • Desire2Learn
  • Horde IMP
  • Meeting Maker

Enterprise Resource Planning Integration – Which includes the following integration to Peoplesoft and Kuali applications

  • Class Schedule
  • Grades
  • Unofficial Transcript
  • Account Summary

Targeted Alerts – Notifies users of campus announcements through:

  • Portal
  • E-Mail
  • SMS alerts

Web 2.0 Social Networking – including:

  • Community and personal profile pages 
  • Blogs
  • Wikis
  • Friend walls
  • Google Gadgets integration

Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) – an on-demand video player with a variety of content including:

  • Open Student Television Network (OSTN) campus news
  • Associated Press news

"The CampusEAI feature-rich Web portal allows the UA to offer multiple systems and services through a single point of access," said Ed Murphy, assistant director for applications development at the UA. "The implementation of Enterprise myCampus Portal allows the organization of diverse resources and provides personalization. We now have the opportunity to improve both our technology and quality of service."

The initial portal deployment will be focused on providing access to the systems on the UA's Mosiac project: human resources, financials, research administration, student administration and business intelligence. 

Online learning and social networking features such as RSS feeds with course information from D2L and integration with Facebook, iTunes and Google may also be part of the initial portal deployment.

© 2009 Arizona Board of Regents