My Cascadia Orientation

MyCascadia orientation

Prepare to be disappointed

Plan is to

• Keep the good stuff
• Clear out the underbrush - the stuff that nobody looks at
• Encourage campus community to learn and play around; change it to something that works for you if you are a person that maintains content.
• Understands the limits of training to date and will be hiring an asst director for professional development. This person will be responsible for MyCascadia training, guide-by-the-side to facilitate learning
• Reorganize and redesign
• Keep taking additional steps to take advantage of the new environment; incremental steps.

MyCascadia as it currently stands is basically the same as Zocalo.

Address: My.Cascadia.edu

Same address on and off campus

Good news: no need to log in when you are on campus.

More good news: password is the same as your network login

Less good news - will need to log in for each document opened when off campus.

Another problem - when they moved Zocalo to MyCascadia, some of the permissions got broken. If you run into a document that you should be able to open but can't, send in a help desk ticket - its an easy fix.

Other good new things:

• Bread crumb navigation (will always be able to see where you are in the site structure)
• MySite - you can set up and control who sees what under Profile. Has a social networking feature to it, allowing easy searching amongst pages
• Blogging, wikis (rather awful) and RSS feeds facilitated.
• Document review workflow facilitated (saves sending document to a bunch of people to edit and tracking multiple versions)

Now what???

• If something is broken, send a helpdesk ticket for repair
• Beginning to purge un-used sites. IT will send out a list of unused sites and will delete if they don't hear otherwise. Send a helpdesk ticket to save.
• Directory updates are coming so that only current employees are listed
• Regular trainings starting in July (after training person hired)
• Class site templates with gradebook, course planning, and student messaging (August) (supported through Helpdesk, who will be supported by Microsoft's contractor)
• New templates for departments, committees, projects (July)
• Navigation structure change (possibly August)
• Calendar (possibly September)