v. 3.2 August 15, 2006

• Welcome to the *NEW* My AU site design. We have been busy this summer making major changes to the My AU site from ideas by a great team of students. One of the major goals to be accomplished was easy access to important information.


• To give everyone a heads up about what’s going on around campus we have added a new rotating banner on the home page. Look here to see any important news or special events that might be going on.


• On the home page you will also notice the press releases and campus announcements. You can submit your own announcements any time you’d like, but remember to make sure it’s appropriate! (We check!) In addition to being able to submit information, we have the option to hide this information if you don’t care to view it.


• Ever want to access your favorite bookmarks on a different computer? Now you can have access to them on your My-AU home page by setting up My Bookmarks in your profile. You now have the option to customize and submit bookmarks to use and share with everyone everywhere.


• Speaking of customizable content, we now have an option to have customized news appear on your My-AU homepage. Update your customized content to get the latest news. You can choose from RSS feeds such as:
  • BBC News: Europe
  • Yahoo! News
  • Art News
  • C|net technology news
  • New York Times


• You may notice on the right-side there are highlighted features to show you some cool things we have available. After you sign in, this area will allow you to edit your profile and the content of the site to fit your own style. In addition, you will notice there are submitted links. You can even submit a link of your own, but you have to be logged in.


• On the left side we have included all of the commonly used quick links so you can get to where you need to go sooner. On that note, keep in mind that Banner now known as BannerWeb and can be located in this navigation.


• We have added a new feature to the site called “Board @ Alfred” which appears in the top navigation after you sign in. Under this tab you can find all sorts of ways to interact with other students. You will find information on our web boards, polls, jobs, and you can submit your own content to the site.