Communication Challenges Trying to keep everyone involved in M-Pathways current on the project's progress and other issues is complicated by a number of significant challenges. Participants are located throughout the University's colleges, schools, and central offices. Participants are located all over campus. Participants use several different computer platforms. The volume of information about M-Pathways has created additional challenges.
More information is available than most participants can keep up with.
They believed Lotus Notes offered the help they needed. It was already being used by some of the project's participants, was readily available on campus, and appeared to address the many challenges facing the project. Excellent Solution Lotus Notes offered an excellent solution to the challenges facing M- Pathways participants. It allows for multiple levels of access control to the data. Its databases reside in one place, on the ITD Notes server, which allows a user to access his or her database from any computer with the Lotus Notes client software.