Well my new pet project is the RezHall Portal. Though not as powerful or integrated (yet) as Summer’s portal, it should serve my needs well. Primarily, I want to utilize the SSO (Single Sign-On) technology to it’s max. To do that down here (by down here I mean in the residence halls), I need a piazza – a central place where students (and the student/pro staff) can login and jump ‘seamlessly’ from app to app.
‘course I can’t jump them into mail, calendar, etc…
But it’s a step. We’ll have a place that they are USED to going (since they’ll have to use it to register their computer for online use, submit a work order, etc…). Like ‘freddies – a one stop shop. A place that, hopefully, they can get almost everything that they need. Then if they actually USE it (with all the other online communities out there … Myspace, etc…) we will finally have a way to communication with residents.
It could be big. It could be the best thing I’ve done here. THAT makes me excited.