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After a month-long introduction to faculty and staff, UVic’s new online portal, uSource, is now available to students.
The portal provides access to online UVic information systems, along with the ability to personalize the content to suit individual needs.
What’s in it for students?
The portal will replace ISIS, the student registration system. It will give students access to their personal records such as transcripts and tuition balances in a secure, online venue.
Extensive user-testing was conducted with students before the launch. Like faculty and staff, they logged in to the portal using personal netlink ID’s and passwords. Unlike faculty and staff, they had (and still have) access to a special “students” tab. The tab contains their personal student records, a list of financial awards and aids, student forms from administrative departments across campus, a list of important academic dates and a connection to online course tools, such as WebCT.
Students reported that the comprehensive list of online course tools will help them improve communication with faculty and fellow classmates. The “groups” tool, in particular, enables chatting, file-sharing and collaboration. The popular calendar will be especially useful for managing tasks, events and busy social lives.
More portal features will be implemented throughout the next few years as faculty, staff and students increasingly use it to interact and carry out their work.
Login at https://usource.uvic.ca
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