Word: portal
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...with the recent launch of the revamped my.Harvard portal, students can shop courses, keep calendars, watch course videos and access Webmail all from the same page. Whereas the old portal was next to useless, the new one is next to indispensable. Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services (FASCS) and the iCommons team should be commended for their efforts in overseeing the creation of a tool that will make hectic life at Harvard a lot more manageable...
...shopping feature in the new my.Harvard portal is especially welcome. Harvard courses are hard enough to navigate already without having to rely on the cumbersome CUE guide and the massive Courses of Instruction booklet. Now instead of flipping, students can click. In the future, we hope the my.Harvard portal will partially replace some of these printed tomes to save paper and energy. Until then, the course shopping functionality is an invaluable addition to the tools Harvard students can use in exploring the varied courses the College has to offer...
...my.harvard portal was created by a team of student and staff web developers...
They kicked off the redesign effort last spring and launched the revamped site early this month. “The redesign was sparked by University-wide consensus that there was a need to reinvigorate the portal in order to make it both lively and timely,” Davis said...
Students who have used the portal seem to appreciate its new layout. “I like how it links you to all the course information so I can see if times conflict,” said J. Douglas Jamieson ’07, who used the portal to create his course shopping list...