Oakland University Portlet Showcase

Coverage of the Apereo portlets used as well as the custom portlets designed and used in Oakland University's uPortal instance.

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1. Oakland University Portlet Showcase Dave Derderian Skye Schneider
2. Oakland University uPortal 4.0.11 ~20,000 Students CAS 3.5.1 PostgreSQL
3. Financial Aid Portlet • Integrates with Banner • Small Database Load ◦ Only hit once • Incorporates JSON ◦ JSON.simple ◦ http://code.google.com/p/json-simple/ ◦ No AJAX / JSTL variable • UI done through HTML / CSS / JS ◦ No experience of JSP/JSTL required ◦ Dynamic / jQuery NoConflict
5. Courses Portlet Portlet to lists courses and grades from Apereo • Oakland's Banner DAO ◦ Direct access to Banner information • Modified API ◦ Extra information for courses ◦ Tie into Calendar Portlet • Custom Desktop View
9. Courses Portlet • Custom Mobile View • Custom Footer (Mobile / Desktop) • Bookstore Integration • Links into other major OU services ◦ Webmail / Moodle
13. Calendar Portlet Courses Integration Calendar Portlet shipped with uPortal • Creates custom calendar feed • Integrates directly with Courses Portlet API • Displays students class schedule ◦ Date ◦ Location ◦ Description • iCal feed available for download
15. Progress To Degree • Displays student's completed / incomplete courses • Displays multiple course information ◦ Grades ◦ GPA (overall / term / category) ◦ Credits (total / left to graduate) • Migrated into Courses Portlet ◦ Apereo's Version / Not OU • Banner Tie-in • Custom Mobile View
19. Sail Mail (Email Preview) • Apereo's Email Preview Portlet • Oakland's custom skin • Oakland's custom settings ◦ Only uses Oakland email
20. Setting up Email Preview IMAP must be enabled from the your email settings.
21. Email Setup cont...
22. Email Preview and Inbox
23. Read Email from Portlet
24. My Details • Displays student specific information ◦ Degree (BS / BA / etc) ◦ Undergraduate / Graduate Level ◦ Catalog Term ◦ College (Arts & Sciences / Computer Science / etc) ▪ Link to Advising web page ◦ Major ◦ Oakland University Student Number
25. My Details Desktop View
26. My Details Mobile View
27. CMS Portlet Implementation • Mostly used as quick links ◦ Oakland Services ◦ Academic Information ◦ Campus Information
28. Oakland Services and Academic Information
30. Search Portlet Extended • Incorporates Custom Google Search • Separate tab for search results • Same search used on oakland.edu
34. Where to Next?