Even though we never really did any major marketing of myUCLA, it s become very popular. College Navigator provides a similar service to Gettysburg College students. Like myUCLA, CNAV allows students to access and manage an array of personal information, from their grades to their finances. Parents can also log in to find out how their son or daughter is faring at the college with the student s permission. What is unique about CNAV, in fact, is the amount of privacy built into the system.
Students can determine how much of their information others can view.
For example, they can elect to make their email address listing accessible only to other Gettysburg students and can limit their parents access to their records. As a result, we have a high user rate 80 percent of the campus community logs onto the system every day, and most say they couldn t do without it. Gettysburg also offers a demo of CNAV on its Web site. Interactive Web sites like Ralphie s Info Center, mass-customized sites like the University of Buffalo s, and personalized ones like CNAV and myUCLA are on the cutting edge of Web development in higher education. All rights reserved.