There will be organizational advantages for the campus and students and immediate benefits to the academic departments as well as co-curricular value in the form of community building. Today s students judge the campus by the usability and functionality of its website it is a competitive tool as well as a convenient tool for navigating the campus organization. The value to the campus may be more in convenience than in money saved. Establishing the portal criteria is the most important step in making this choice of a portal framework. General feeling is that Campus Pipeline is the most likely to fit our needs.
Security appears similar in all.
All the products will look the same unless we build ourselves. Debbie McElroberts said that if everything fell into place, with lots of work and luck, it would be possible to have the first stage up for the campus in the fall. Would like to turn the portal on slowly with a test group in the spring. Believe that in the fall students would not be able to register for classes on the new system, but would be able to do adds and drops. The faculty would probably be able to demo in fall.