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THIS ISSUE:
Front Page: From the CITO
Wireless in Residence Halls
Information Security Update
The New MyNAU
Consider Adding Web Statistics to Your Site
New Email Gateways Stop Spam Dead!
Virtual Lab: Software for Students When and Where They Need It
Collaborate, Coordinate, and Share with SharePoint
RIAA Settlement Letters
New Addition to the SPSS Family of Tools
Tips on "Outsourcing" Your IT Support
New Emergency Text Service: NAU Alert
Training News: Microsoft Office 2007
Blackboard Vista AP2
Administrative Computing Update
PC Support News Bytes
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Add the New MyNAU to Your
Bookmarks and Favorites
This fall you’ll want to set your browser homepage to the new MyNAU located at my.nau.edu, because you won’t want to miss the new features that make MyNAU more user-friendly and useful to you than ever before.
More Information—Right at Your Fingertips
You’ll immediately notice the difference in MyNAU. The Guest View where NAU users can log in has a new look and feel. The login button doesn’t take up the entire page anymore, leaving room for information about What’s Inside. Members of the NAU community—and guests—can find out what’s taking place on campus by reading MyNAU Announcements and the Today’s Events channels without having to log in.
Care to know what the weather is like up in Michigan, around Omaha, or down in Yuma, Arizona? Type the zip code for the area into the Weather channel and your personalized weather will be displayed for you. If you like pictures, the NAU Web Cam is there too.
Searching for people, departments, or phone numbers? MyNAU is going to become your favorite place to go, because you can use the Directory Search channel to look up NAU students, staff, and faculty, and find contact information for departments. Do you want more information about NAU? MyNAU now includes an A to Z Index at the top, both in the Guest View and once you log in. Or if you’d rather customize your own search criteria, use the Search NAU text box to search all NAU indexed web pages.
More Improvements—Inside MyNAU
Notice how crisp and clean the new MyNAU looks. The new default layouts include six new tabs with a wealth of online resources organized and neatly packaged for you to use and explore. You’ll find LOUIE and PortalMail on the Services tab along with other useful tools, such as some of the most commonly used Faculty/Staff Links. Students will find links to common Student Services.
A tab called Today@ NAU supplies information that is specific to life at NAU, like NAU News, the Events Calendar, NAU Athletics, and What’s New at the Library. The Learning tab displays all of the Blackboard Vista Courses in which you are enrolled and a Library Toolbox where you can launch an immediate search for articles on any subject when conducting research, plus more.
Under the Community tab you’ll find the popular Classifieds channel. This area lets you buy, sell, and trade personal items with other members at NAU. Want to see some good movies or find out about Flagstaff Events? The Community channel is the place to go.
Customize Your MyNAU
One of the most exciting discoveries made when conducting MyNAU focus groups last spring was that students want to customize their MyNAU. Coming from a generation that is used to creating web pages on the fly in social software sites like MySpace, students want to be able to move and shape the pages the way that is most useful and attractive to them. That’s why all users of MyNAU will now see a tab called My Stuff. This tab includes instructions on how to customize MyNAU by adding more tabs, columns, and additional channels, which is what the information boxes on each tab are called. You can find a complete list of Available Channels on the Help tab. There are many to choose from, and in the future you’ll be able to change the colors too.
To help you get started, the following channels are already on your My Stuff tab: Bookmarks, My Memos, and RSS Selector. These channels enable you to customize the information you see when you log in to your MyNAU.
In addition, you’ll see small icons at the top of each channel. Clicking on these small icons will open a channel full screen, minimize a channel so you only see the heading, and even remove the channel from the tab on which it is located if that’s your wish. Look on the Help tab under MyNAU to see these icons with a detailed explanation of their functions.
New Functionality
There are a few channels in MyNAU that you will not be able to remove. In these channels, such as those on the Services tab, you will see the remove icon grayed out. These are typically channels that allow information to be updated and sent to you within your MyNAU that you will not want to miss. Disallowing removal of these few channels makes it easier for the ITS Solution Center and the Academic Computing Help Desk to provide assistance when you need help with MyNAU.
Bookmark my.nau.edu today, or make it your browser homepage. Then you can begin to subscribe to topics in the NAU Announcements channel or change your preferences on the Events Calendar so you will be apprised of events that are of interest to you. Browse through the Available Channels on the Help tab, then use the Preferences link to add as many as you want from the list that includes Sports, Entertainment, News, and more. Find all the information you want online, all in one place. All you need is MyNAU!
-Georgia Michalicek |
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