What's New & Changing at Northwestern
Contents
- “Clickers”: Not Just for Your TV
- Coming Soon: Portal for a Single Point of Access
- Proxy.cgi Moves to Online Passport
“Clickers”: Not Just for Your TV
Say goodbye to being put on the spot in class; clickers have arrived. Academic Technologies is currently piloting a new Student Response System (SRS) with instructors on campus. This integrated hardware and software system allows instructors to pose questions and gather students' responses during a lecture. To ensure quality and consistency for students, NUIT has standardized the devices and supporting software from Turning Technologies. Instructors can e-mail Academic Technologies to request loaner kits for up to three weeks at a time, so clickers may soon be used in your classes and lectures.
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.
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.
