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

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

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

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

5. 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

6. “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

7. “My First Year” Tab

8. 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?

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

10. 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?

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

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

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

14. 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

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

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