MyUCDavis Web Portal for Faculty and
Students
March 29, 2001 Joint Meeting
Academic Computing Coordinating Council
Administrative Computing Coordinating
Council
Lana Moffitt, Director
UC Davis Information Resources
MyUCDavis Web Portal
Post-Pilot Status
What is MyUCDavis?
• A portal that enables each visitor to personalize
features to reflect his or her interests and needs,
including course management tools for faculty,
access to SISWeb and Degree Navigator for
students, and web-based email for faculty and
students.
• A new way to find information at UC Davis.
• A doorway to many UCD Davis-specific online
services and information.
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MyUCDavis Web Portal
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MyUCDavis Features:
Personalized Services
General Services
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Email
My Front Page
My Classes
My Bookmarks
My Planner
My Course Web Pages (for
faculty)
• Course Management (for
faculty)
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SISWEB
Library
My Campus Messages
Web Search
Word Tools
Campus Calendars
News and Weather
Shop UCD
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MyUCDavis Web Portal
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What the students and faculty are saying
about MyUCDavis:
“MyUCDavis is excellent. It is a great tool where we
only have to go to one web site to find everything
we need. I hope we keep it for a long time.”
“I like how you are working to help us as instructors
communicate with our students. Thanks.”
-pulled from ongoing MyUCDavis
survey
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MyUCDavis Web Portal
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The MyUCDavis Pilot
• An invitation for pilot participants was sent
to the 400 members of the FIAT* email list
• 60 faculty volunteered to participate along
with their students
• The pilot ran during the Fall and Winter
Quarters
*Forum on Instructional Applications of Technology is a list for discussions and
announcements regarding the uses of technology for teaching at the
University of California, Davis.
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MyUCDavis Web Portal
Post-Pilot Status
MyUCDavis Unique Users as of 3/28/01
6000
5357
5000
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2402
3000
2000
569
1000
0
Students
Student/Staff
Staff
285
Faculty
8613 Total Unique Users Shown
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MyUCDavis Web Portal
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MyUCDavis Survey: 408 responses
• 73% will use MyUCDavis as their default browser
page.
• 79% find MyUCDavis to improve productivity as a
student, faculty or staff member.
• 78% believe MyUCDavis will help the campus
attract prospective students.
• 96% would recommend MyUCDavis to others.
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MyUCDavis Web Portal
Post-Pilot Status
Course Management Software is gaining
in popularity:
• 51 faculty have created course web sites for
114 courses.
• These 51 faculty have created over 1000
course documents using MyUCDavis Course
Management.
• There are an additional 139 links to existing
course web sites included in MyUCDavis.
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MyUCDavis Web Portal
Post-Pilot Status
• MyUCDavis meets much of the criteria
established by the UCD Policy and
Procedure Manual Section 200-45 for Tier 1
administrative computing systems because
it:
– Crosses organizational boundaries;
– Is critical to the ability to support the delivery of
education;
– Has strategic value to the campus such that
encouragement of widespread use is desirable.
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MyUCDavis Web Portal
Post-Pilot Status
MyUCDavis Annual Budget
Support Area
Project Management
Application Development
Database and System Administration
Code Migration
Help Desk
Training
Hardware
Software
Disk Storage
Contingency
Promotional Materials
MySpace Development
Total
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Annual Cost
$17,144
$39,195
$17,839
$5,400
$16,960
$4,000
$13,861
$8,772
$41,345
$12,838
$6,000
$3,906
$187,260
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MyUCDavis Web Portal
Post-Pilot Status
Examples of possible expansion projects:
• Integrate Financial Aid disbursements via
electronic funds transfer.
• Grant information for principal investigators.
• Grade book tool for course work.*
• Self-test question module for quizzes and
tests*.
*As recommended by AC4 Subcommittee on Course Management Systems
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MyUCDavis Web Portal
Post-Pilot Status
Recommendations
“MyUCDavis should be deployed for students
and faculty as soon as possible.”
UC Davis Report of the E-Commerce
Task Force, December 10, 1999
“Keep MyUCDavis—as a Tier 1 System.”
Report of AC4 Subcommittee on Course
Management Systems, March 2001
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