Software Application: CampusCruiser Portal Interface
The technology landscape for the 21st century college and university istransforming at lightning speed. In order to keep pace with new technology and demands for easy access to campus information, institutions are turning to portal technology for the answer.
CampusCruiser, one of Datatel’s integrated portal solutions, provides college and university constituents (faculty, students, staff, applicants and alumni) with 24X7 Web access to institutional information, services, and Web-based productivity tools. CampusCruiser promotes the exchange of information among all participants in college life through e-mail, bulletin boards, class management, campus and personal calendars and chat. Through this portal technology, your college or university can instantly create a virtual campus community. What makes this portal even more appealing to your campus is that CampusCruiser and Colleague come fully integrated. When you deploy the CampusCruiser portal with Colleague, the result is a secure Web-based environment that integrates the data from Colleague with the latest portal technology to provide increased online service and access to your entire campus community through a single login. Students can check their course syllabus, register for classes, drop classes, print a copy of their class schedule, share files and chat with other students and faculty all through one secure gateway, with one secure login. College life just got a little easier!
• Provides an immediate increase in campus-wide service to students, faculty and other campus community members.
• Gives your institution a strategic advantage in the marketplace to attract and retain students by creating a distinctive virtual campus community. • Facilitates student-to-student and student-to-faculty communication • Ensures a secure Web environment using today’s standards of: SSL, XML
and Java.
• Eases the burden of maintaining a secure 24X7 enterprise portal with a remotely “hosted” model.
• Protects your investment in Colleague and Benefactor by using it as the foundation for managing your virtual campus.
Feature Tour
Communication and Collaboration Tools • Group Calendars
• Personal Calendars
• Faculty to Class Chat Rooms • Member Discussion Areas • Message Boards
Course Management Tools • Course syllabi • Shared files • Class Chat • Bulletin Boards • Course Schedules • IMS-compliant interface
Personalization of individual workspace with MyCruiser Lifetime E-mail Service
Built-in integration with Datatel’s products
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Education Services
All Training• CampusCruiser Portal Administration Course • Planning for and Using CampusCruiser Course Application Training and Practicums
• Planning for and Using CampusCruiser Course Reporting and Programming Tools Training
• CampusCruiser Portal Administration Course System Management Training
• CampusCruiser Portal Administration Course
Technical Services
Technical Education
• CampusCruiser Portal Administration Course • Planning for and Using CampusCruiser Course
CampusCruiser Portal Administration Course
The CampusCruiser Portal Administration course provides attendees with the knowledge necessary to implement, administer and maintain the CampusCruiser portal. The course addresses general administrator functions, data up-load options, and how to incorporate CampusCruiser into an existing web structure.
Course Outcomes:
• Understand Administrator roles and responsibilities • Employ the CampusCruiser web interface tools • Use and modify templates
• Monitor usage • Create data feeds
• Integrate CampusCruiser with Datatel systems
Who Should Attend:
Director of Information Technology, web administrators, Datatel software system administrators and project leaders.
Prerequisites:
• Completion of CampusCruiser software license contract
• Established CampusCruiser web-site with administrative access to the site
• Familiarity with the Colleague CORE application and Datatel Messaging Interface (DMI) Administration
Length: 2 days
Format: Lecture and hands-on exercises Cost:
$900 at Datatel - $6000 onsite
Planning for and Using CampusCruiser Course
The Planning for and Using CampusCruiser Planning session provides attendees with information, direction, guidance, and tools for understanding and effectively implementing a campus-wide portal. This session focuses on the knowledge and planning needed to successfully promote and use CampusCruiser. Topics
covered include general portal benefits, identification of functions and uses of CampusCruiser, development of a strategic vision, recommendations for an organizational approach, and various roll-out strategies.
Course Outcomes:
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• Understanding of what a portal is and what it can do • Knowledge of CampusCruiser features and functions
• Understanding of TimeCruiser’s and Datatel’s position on internet security and privacy
• Exchange ideas and suggestions for promoting CampusCruiser • Develop a CampusCruiser roll-out plan
Who Should Attend:
Project Leader and Director of IT
Prerequisites:
• Completion of CampusCruiser software license contract
Special Requirements:
• Bring goals and vision for CampusCruiser • Bring a copy of campus-wide technology policy
Length: 2 days
Format: Lecture and hands-on exercises Cost:
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functions. CampusCruiser™ enhances student services by linking all these powerful resources together in one unified system. Our comprehensive suite of on-line tools and services is a new medium for managing, tracking, promoting and sharing information ranging from campus administration to assignments, classes and events.
CampusCruiser's™ interactive platform enriches campus life by bringing together all members of the college community:
students, faculty, alumni and administrators. Although each group has different needs, they can all be satisfied by one Web-based education community portal.
• Multiple POP 3/IMAP Retrieval
Users can receive e-mail from IMAP or POP3 external e-mail accounts in any combination. Users with IMAP accounts can even set
CampusCruiser to receive e-mail messages from a specific folder
within the account.
• E-mail Forwarding
This new tool allows administrators to disable or enable e-mail forwarding for an entire campus, an entire user type, or specific users.
• Standard Internet e-mail service to all members of your institution's community
• Remote Hosted Model
CampusCruiser™ is a higher education portal that provides your institution with a platform to organize resources and information
Communication and Collaboration Tools
• Group Calendars
• Member Discussion Areas
• Message Boards
• Share and transfer files to other faculty members or classmates
• Links to resources
Personalize & Customize
• Site Color Customization Palette
Institutions can brand their CampusCruiser site with their own colors
or choose from a variety of pre-defined colors.
• Students, faculty and other community members can individualize
their personal workspace
Course Management Tools
Students and faculty have immediate access to information about their courses, departmen
Administrative Features
• Distributed Administrative Privileges
In the past, administrative tools were only available to users with
administrative privileges. With the Distributed Administrative Privileges
feature, administrators can now grant administrative tool privileges to
faculty and members.
Security
• LDAP Server Authentication
LDAP Authentication provides a way to use an external LDAP database
to authenticate CampusCruiser users and a bridge to "single login"
with other systems.
• SSL (Secure Socket Layer)
CampusCruiser supports SSL, a standard approved by the World Wide
Web Consortium that allows secured communication between a client
and a server, to keep users' information protected and secure. ts, clubs, club members and your campus calendar.
1. What is a portal?
A portal is an on-line community designed to organize
resources and information specific to your learning community through tools such as calendars e-mail, contact lists and course management. A portal enhances communication while integrating technology into your learning environment.
2. Will my proprietary information be secure?
Yes. CampusCruiser's™ single, high-end data center provides a secure and reliable system ensuring full-redundancy. Access to the servers is password protected and secure from
unauthorized Internet traffic by a powerful group of firewalls.
3. What are CampusCruiser™ minimum requirements?
PC: Internet Explorer 5, Netscape Navigator 6.2 MAC: Internet Explorer 5, Netscape Navigator 6.2
4. I use Blackboard or Web CT. Why do I need both?
Although CampusCruiser™ is not a distance-learning site, it can be used in conjunction with any distance learning package or applications you are currently using. With CampusCruiser™, students have access to communication tools such as campus clubs, calendars and e-mail. Once a user is logged onto their CampusCruiser™ site, all features, tools and information are accessible.
5. Can I publish news for a selected or restricted group of people?
Yes. There are several options for publishing news to select groups. Individual message boards for clubs and classes are visible only to members of that club or class. You may also create a private club or class committee, which only allows invited members to view the club or class news. Your Campus Administrator can also restrict which users can view your Campus Message Board. Your school is always in control.
6. What does this mean for our college's Home Page?
CampusCruiser™ does not take the place of your college's home page. Your college's Web page is intended to act as your college's public image on the Web. There can be links to your college Web site on your CampusCruiser™ home page so they complement one another.
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7. Can I access CampusCruiser™ from home?
Yes. You may access your CampusCruiser™ account from any computer with an Internet connection and a Web browser.
8. What does your company do with my personal
information? Can your company use my personal information for any commercial purposes?
CampusCruiser™ does not require that you give us any personal information other than your name so that we can create a login ID. We will not sell your information to anyone for any reason. However, in order to provide better service to our customers, we may release some aggregate user
statistics.
9. How does CampusCruiser™ interact with our Datatel system?
CampusCruiser™ and Datatel work together to automatically populate data within both systems. Users will be able to
access the school's databases through their CampusCruiser™ account, offering enhanced student services. Users can register for classes, view grades, receive unofficial transcripts, and access financial status.
10. Are logins and passwords encrypted?
Yes. Login ID's and passwords are encrypted via SSL (Secure Socket Layer). This security protocol provides data encryption, server authentication, message integrity and optional client authentication for a TCP/IP connection.
11. Can students keep their e-mail after they graduate?
CampusCruiser™ can be a lifetime e-mail solution. We expect graduates to be moved from the “student” role to the
“alumnae” role. This can occur as long as the institution continues to use CampusCruiser™. They can keep their account for the lifetime of the CampusCruiser™ agreement.
12. How do students, teachers and faculty get their passwords and logins?
Campuses provide this information to their users.
13. What if I forget my password?
There is a section in personal profile where users can remind themselves with a pre-written question. For example, if their password is Smith a good reminder question would be what is my mother's maiden name?
