Using OU Campus in a Luminis Portal

Using OU Campus in a Luminis Portal Rachel Reuben Director of Web Communication & Strategic Projects State University of New York at New Paltz

Background • OmniUpdate customer 4 years • Luminis launched Jan. ’07 as “the all new my.newpaltz.edu” • Previously home grown portal • Disclaimers

Birth of “My First Year” tab • Poor Student Opinion Survey results • Departments widely unknown and/or intimidating • Strategy to combat & improve future SOS

How to implement? • Challenges • Create content development cycle • Create production cycle

Solution • Create “My First Year” tab for first year students in my.newpaltz.edu • Create exciting, informative channels • Update at least 1/month • Tie in OmniUpdate

“My First Year” Tab Channels • • FYI Academic Advising • • My.Choices Matter Ask Me (wellness) • Career Resource Ctr • My.Orientation Leader • Club of the month • Living on campus • Disability Resource Ctr • Poll of the month • Emerging leaders • Psychological Counseling • EOP Ctr • Events • Tell Tara

“My First Year” Tab

Strategy important • How are you going to use it? • How are your users going to use it? • Who is going to provide content? • Who is going to update content? • What are your goals? • How will you measure results?

Luminis Limitations • Measuring results – No built-in analytics – Need to get creative – What’s possible to track (and not)

Management Strategy • Who can create/produce videos? • Who will post photos? • How will content get in proper channels? • Who needs to be trained in OmniUpdate?

Technical: How To • Create new page – Add OU edit code • Create a new channel – Demo: my.newpaltz.edu • Remote HTML reference • Edit text

Spin-offs • Accepted students tab • Institutional Research internal documents • Human Resources policies/documents

What’s coming next • Finding the right mix / use • Using OU opens up further possibilities

Take Aways • Cross department & divisional boundaries • Think creatively • Use the tools your audience will use • Build a realistic strategy • Make it easy to update content

Let me in! • http://my.newpaltz.edu • Username: lumtest2 • Password: ouwebinar12

Questions Twitter: @rachelreuben E-mail: reubenr@newpaltz.edu Web: http://rachelreuben.com Blog: http://doteduguru.com

Using OU Campus in a Luminis Portal

by Rachel Reuben on Apr 03, 2009

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