Metrics are a funny thing. We have 4 main ways of looking at the portal. We have concurrent users, which we measure at 5 minute intervals. We track logins and unique users on a daily basis. We have Google Analytics. Last but not least, we also track how many people […]
Entries from January 2008
First Day Metrics
January 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Portal
Grades Day, Or the Effect of a Simple Message in the Right Place
January 9th, 2008 · Comments Off
Right before finals week last semester, the university registrar asked that a brief announcement be placed just above the link to PeopleSoft in the Portal. The announcement let students know that grades would post on January 8. It went up on December 18, the second day of finals.
The result on January 8 was the busiest […]