Portals and Portal Technologies

Mandate

The purpose of this group is to share experiences, documents (e.g. requirements, RFP’s), and possibly even code among CUCCIO members who operate or are thinking of operating a portal for students, staff, faculty, and/or alumni.

Objectives

• To share information, experiences, knowledge and activities with others with responsibility for portals at Canadian universities.
• To provide a forum to enable members to seek advice from others.
• To identify and disclose best practices for portal implementations at Canadian universities.
• To seek opportunities for collaboration in portal initiatives in areas of commonality across universities.
• Examples of portals and portal functionality which are relevant to this group include:
  • Portal products from different vendors
  • Open source portals
  • Portal components (themes, portlets)
  • Integration strategies
  • Methodologies for building and evaluating portals
  • Strategies for mobile portals

Activities

• CANHEIT 2010: approval of terms of reference
• Spring 2011: gathering names of interested parties, setting up collaboration space
• Prior to CANHEIT 2011: first conference call
• CANHEIT 2011: possible live gathering

Become Involved

Who Should Join?
Managers, Directors, and CIO’s from CUCCIO member universities with an interest in portals

Commitment & Meetings

Communication will be primarily through an email list and a collaborative workspace, to be decided. Conference calls will be held as necessary.

Face to face meetings can be set as required preferably around other relevant conferences such as Educause, CANHEIT and other conferences.

How to Get Involved
Contact Peter Rowley prowley@yorku.ca