What's New & Changing at Northwestern
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- Proxy.cgi Moves to Online Passport
- HRIS Supports Benefits Open Enrollment
- Pilot Kits for Student Response System Now Available
- Coming Soon: Portal for a Single Point of Access
Proxy.cgi Moves to Online Passport
Members of the campus community will soon see the NU Online Passport page more frequently when using Northwestern Web sites. As a step towards centralizing access to University-wide systems and services on the Web, Online Passport will now accept services currently managed by proxy.cgi, as part of the retirement of SNAP. New requests for Web access management will also be handled via NU Online Passport. The migration from SNAP to Online Passport will occur with school and department technical administrators. Learn more about proxy.cgi and NU Online Passport on the NUIT Web site.
HRIS Supports Benefits Open Enrollment
This is the last week to take advantage of the new online benefits program, eBenefits. Northwestern's HRIS Self-Service online enrollment system offers enhanced features, functionality, and information to help the University community make informed benefits plan decisions. These HRIS services were implemented by Northwestern Human Resources and NUIT's Management Systems.
eBenefits is used for all enrollment processes for health care plans; flexible spending account (FSA) health care plans; retirement plans; FSA dependent care plans; and changing or enrolling beneficiaries and/or dependents. All faculty and staff are required to actively elect or waive health care participation.
If you do not re-enroll, a plan will be chosen for you. Enroll anytime before November 30.
Pilot Kits for Student Response System Now Available
Clickers are not just for the TV anymore: Northwestern instructors are now piloting clicker devices, or, more formally known as a Student Response System (SRS). This integrated hardware and software system allows instructors to pose questions and gather students' real-time responses during a lecture. To provide consistency and quality across campus, NUIT's Academic Technologies has standardized the devices and supporting software from Turning Technologies.
Faculty can use a pilot kit of the system for up to three weeks, available from NUIT Academic Technologies. Loaner kits include a software installation CD for the instructor's computer, 60 clickers for students, and a receiver to be placed in the classroom. For more information, contact NUIT Academic Technologies, or read about the Student Response System (SRS) on the NUIT Web site.
Coming Soon: Portal for a Single Point of Access
Finding Northwestern services on the Web will soon get easier. NUIT is working to create the NUPortal, a personalized, role-based, single-point-of-access to online services that are essential to academic, research, and administrative work. The service brings together several Web-enabled University services to a single customizable site.
“This new service greatly increases efficiency and convenience for our users. There are several customizable options that will truly make this a one-stop site,” said Harry Samuels, Application Systems Manager of Information Technology Management Systems.
Several volunteers from the University student, faculty, and staff communities have just completed usability testing. Look for more information about the NUPortal in the upcoming quarter.
