At the start of the term, we looked at portal traffic on the first day of the term, in this case spring 2008. It was a busy day, to say the least. Now that we have data for the entire term, what more do we know?
The second day of school was the busiest […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Not long after the Virginia Tech shootings there was an article on the College Web Editor blog asking if Twitter could be used for emergency communications. I argued that this would be a poor use of Twitter and of campus resources in a situation where resources are critical. I still stand by my […]
Yesterday we were cruising right along in the portal. Things were looking quite good for the first day of the fall term. We were sustaining over 1,500 concurrent users, but let me stop here for just a second and visit what this means. Before we were running uPortal we ran another “monolithic” […]
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The fall term officially starts on Monday, but our portal servers will be very, very busy Sunday night as student and faculty get online to check their schedules and classes. Last year at this time we had well over 1,000 concurrent users in the portal for most of the night, as you can see […]
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As the summer winds down, WEBD has successfully completed the uPortal upgrade that we’ve been diligently working on for the past month. In addition to moving to the uPortal 2.6 framework, and DLM based layouts, we’ve improved the presentation layer quite a bit.
The most exciting element of the upgrade is the move away from table […]
Note: For those students looking for Alcohol Edu, please login to the portal and go to the Records, Registration, & Finances tab. There will be a link to Alcohol Edu on the right. The reason that it is in the portal is that the portal provides a single sign-on to the service so […]
This came up in a discussion between Scott and I today and I realized that it would be good to provide the context in which the statement was uttered.
When that sentence first spewed forth from my frontal lobe, I was attempting to convey the advantages (at least in our heterogeneous university IT environment; unknown for […]
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Wherein we look at portal usage from 2006 and marvel at it’s gloriousness.
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