Anonymous Dec 07, 2011 at 3:37 pm Because the website is such an important resource for potential and current students, I would like to see Dartmouth prioritize a re-design of the website, including: 1. A central events calendar (not just a listing, but a searchable/filterable calendar with all events going on on campus) 2. Re-organize the layout of the links to different departments (there are better ways to lay out the page that will make resources easier to find) 3. Update the look and feel of the pages •. Anonymous Dec 07, 2011 at 5:43 pm I second the above comment about developing an online “portfolio” for both academic and co-curricular experiences. I also agree that there must be a much better way than Blackboard and we really need an up to date website relevant to students. I would also like to see the billing of student organizations by college departments become online and as such the students could look up the records of charges that have been made to the accounts that they have charge of. Right now it takes several emails and telephone calls to find out for example a charge from maintenance to a student group as it is not written in “words” but a code and this takes up student’s valuable time. Anonymous Dec 07, 2011 at 5:56 pm Not so long ago (a decade and a half or so), Dartmouth had a well-deserved reputation for its computing prowess. We were ranked #1 on the first “Most Wired Campus” ranking. Alas, our IT infrastructure now is far from great. We do not innovate. We accept external software vendors’ “solutions” that are what Steve Jobs would characterize by that four-letter word that starts with “s” and rhymes with “wit.” We need to get our mojo back. Let’s innovate again. Almost doesn’t matter where: a better “Blackboard,” or a better accounting front end (come on - how freakin’ hard can it be to have a look-up database that accepts simple memorable English phrases instead of 25-digit “chart strings,” to name just one example), or a better social media experience, or any of a bunch of others. We used to do this stuff routinely. Where’d we lose our way? Anonymous Dec 08, 2011 at 7:34 am I believe that usable virtual storage space for both student and faculty should be something that is long-established, and yet it does not seem to exist. Certainly our media students would benefit from a ‘portfolio’ space where assets could be stored and accessed easily; faculty should have such storage as well, for both personal use and classwork. In my experience, such storage has been made available but for limited amounts of time, subject to elimination at varying times, which leads to having to reinvent storage procedures constantly. Mike Silverman Dec 08, 2011 at 9:06 am Agree with this individual Because the website is such an important resource for potential and current students, I would like to see Dartmouth prioritize a re-design of the website, including: 1. A central events calendar (not just a listing, but a searchable/filterable calendar with all events going on on campus) 2. Re-organize the layout of the links to different departments (there are better ways to lay out the page that will make resources easier to find) 3. Update the look and feel of the pages •. Anonymous Dec 08, 2011 at 10:59 am It is incredulous to me that backing up all we do here is a financial operations system that is only a half step up from a totally paper-based system. I have worked for companies one tenth the size of Dartmouth who have managed to put their accounting, payroll and other financial operations totally on line. Super mario 3d world pc game. Why does our staff have to fill out an excel spreadsheets and scan receipts only to have other folks take the data and type it into other systems. Why are time sheets printed out and hand carried to payroll? Usb driver mt65xx android zte. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features.
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