Desired+Features+and+Capabilities


 * Our current mission** is to identify features and capabilities that should be considered for inclusion in the system. We are not ranking ideas here, but simply brainstorming. Once we have a list that seems appropriately representative of a wide range of faculty needs and desires, we will rank items in terms of those that will offer the most immediate benefit and those that are most readily doable.

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1. A short form for performing a quick search of the university phone book. (peters)

2. A listing of my courses with direct links to CRSMWeb. (peters)

3. A Quick entry form for submitting scholarly efforts to FAS. (peters) -- and should also allow for easy information retrieval (e.g., to generate a vita) by and for faculty (witte)

4. The ability to chat with selected colleagues within the new faculty home page. (peters)

5. RSS feed alerts when new publications or grants are recorded by CU faculty, filtered by topic and/or faculty member. (peters)

6. Quick search for common research interests amongst colleagues? (bundrick) a. against courses (kennedy) b. against publications (kennedy)

7. Provision made to use information from the faculty book info in faculty profile pages access via departmental Web sites.

8. Faculty submitted poll questions to gather information for their research or their own curiosity

9. Seminar calendar with the ability to be edited by any faculty member(kennedy)

10. Ability to migrate information from this portal into another application (kennedy) (save the contact you just searched to your pda/outlook contacts/etc)

11. An easy to edit template for office hours with Clemson class timings (kennedy) -- would also be very useful to have a syllabus template with dates pre-populated. How much faculty time was wasted this fall changing 2008 M-W-F dates to 2009 M-W-F dates? (witte)

12. It has to work! Well and timely(kennedy)

13. The information must be up-to-date! Nothing should be more than 24 hours out of cycle (kennedy)

14. It must be intuitive with a simple yet powerful interface. (kennedy)

15. Optional inclusion on the event calendar of technology training events and an indication of whether or not seats remain available. (peters)

16. Inclusion of thumbnails of frequently monitored pages (peters)

17. Customizable (like iGoogle)

18. Boilerplate library for proposals, presentations

19. Vita production tool - extracting data from FAS, faculty book exportable in college format exportable in non-college format

20. Syllabus construction & calendar tool. Facilitates scheduling of topics, allows for designation/announcement of open lectures. Searchable by date, topic, instructor. Mapping of course calendar from one semester syllabus to another.

21. System provides mechanism for pushing information to subscribers.

22. SMARTS feed display.

23. Live chat with colleagues.

24. Faculty status updates to colleagues.

25. Layered, searchable, filterable calendar events. For example by "least busy" day

26. Calendar option to feed calendar entry into FAS

27. Calendars should quick sync with external calendars.

28. Mobile interface.

29. "Administrative" academic calendar - deadlines for PTR, FAS goals...

30. Being able to identify non-teaching time/free time on others' calendars to facilitate meeting scheduling... Optional stealth mode. Pull schedule from crsm to compare/identify open times. Class times already entered into my calendar.

31. Most hated things: locater card, syllabus upload, FAS input, building syllabus.