The UNC Professional Development Portal Redesign

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The UNC Professional Development Portal Redesign

• UNC TLT Conference
• March 30, 2005

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PDP Redesign

• Overview
• About the PDP and Redesign
• Functionality Redesign New Site Demo
• Content Redesign Focus Area Editors
• Platform Redesign Content Management System
• Questions and feedback

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About the UNC Professional Development Portal

• Referatory with over 2,500 links to resources
• Always growing through user submissions
• By the UNC community, for the UNC community
• Supported by the TLT Collaborative
• Governed by Portal Oversight Committee
• Ray Purdom (Chair, UNCG), Steve Breiner (ASU),
  Betsy Brown (UNC GA), Betty Ladner (UNCC), Henry
  Schaffer (NCSU), Scott Simkins (NC AT), TLTC
  staff

http//pdp.unctlt.org
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The PDP Redesign

• Why Redesign the PDP?
• Respond to PDPs growth
• Encourage increased usage and submission
• Dated interface and technical platform
• User Feedback
• Requested a simplified search
• More browsing by subject
• Personalized PDP

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The PDP Redesign

• What is new in the redesign?
• Functionality
• New look, customized by account, relevancy
  ranking, connect with colleagues, more browsing,
  etc.
• Focus Area Editors
• Working on announcements, controlled vocabulary,
  editorial policies, etc.
• New Technical Platform
• Content management system, enhanced searching,
  scalability, improved account management.

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PDP Redesign

• Demo of New PDP Functionality
• http//pdp.unctlt.org

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Focus Area Editors

• Teaching and Learning/Administrative
  Development
• Ray Purdom, UNCG
• Scott Simkins, NC AT
• Library
• Betty Ladner, UNC Charlotte

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Focus Editor Responsibilities

• Assessment of portal user needs
• Development of the collection
• Approval and editing of submitted resources
• Maintenance of the collection
• Development of focus area help documents, style
  guides, topics and controlled vocabulary

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Technical Platform

• Built on new CMS
• Authentication and profile management
• One-click editing
• Theme and template flexibility
• Menu management
• User group management
• Document management
• Form generation
• Designed and Development by Online Services in
  the Office of the President
• CMS Demo

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Management Functions

• Vocabulary Management Demo
• Dynamically generated
• Global propagation model
• Submission Management Demo
• Advanced search
• Full editorial capabilities
• Right-hand Box Management Demo
• Decentralized management
• One-click editing

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Questions Discussion

• Ray Purdom
  rcpurdom_at_uncg.edu
• Andrea Eastman-Mullins andrea_at_northcarolina.edu
• Steven Hopper hoppers_at_northcaroli
  na.edu