StagWeb upgrade completed

This summer the StagWeb application portal was upgraded to version 3.3. The StagWeb upgrade encapsulated both infrastructure and application enhancements to the application portal and went live on August 14, 2005. Below is an overview of some the enhancements:

Dynamic Role-Based Targeted Announcement Delivery

The previous version of StagWeb had most of the targeted announcement data stored in the LDAP repository. If a user acquired a new role after the targeted announcement was delivered, the user would not receive the targeted announcement. After the upgrade, the targeted announcements will be dynamic, meaning, if a targeted announcement is delivered and a user joins a new user role after the targeted announcement delivery, that user with the new role will receive the targeted announcement.

Group and Course Studio

The Group and Course Studio applications have been enhanced to support two new features: Course Consolidator and Group Creation and Population.

Course Consolidator allows faculty members to group any number of courses into a singly managed course that allows them to maintain one course homepage and associated tools, such as message board, chat room and share files.

Group Creation and Population allows system administrators to quickly set up a Group Studio for members of an imported group, which is set up in the system through a specially formatted XML extract that contains a group name, description and list of users.