Web e-mail By Elizabeth Kassab Daily Staff Reporter Students who are tired of Telnet and confused by Wolverine Access may feel like they're in heaven when they are greeted by the dreamy cloud background of my.umich.edu . Students are the target audience for the user-friendly Web portal and are slated to gain access to the site as soon as January. The University's Information Technology Division has been working on the program since last fall and began testing working prototypes in April.
Attachments are much easier now.
The current roster of services includes classified ads, personal calendars and to-do lists, University announcements and headlines from The Michigan Daily. There are links to Wolverine Access, the University's Web gateway, course tools and the online campus directory. The site currently consists of two pages - a home page and a page of services. The site's planners hope to add more pages to the site to allow users to catalog other favorite sites. Place said users should eventually be able to customize the site to correspond with their own personal preferences and the site should include options to organize the order in which services appear on-screen.