About the Web Site Redesign


Dear students, faculty, staff and visitors: As you have seen, a new Web site has been released for the university home page and secondary pages. The new Web site features a completely new design and a much improved navigation system.

The University Home page

This page now features more links that were found to be the most valuable for our users. It also shows the latest news and the web calendar.

A new navigation on the top of each page shows links that will help USU users.

USU home

The link back to the university homepage.

A-Z index

This is the index to other USU links and it is one of the 4 search functionalities in the Search page (you can also search for people in the phonebook and the email directory, or search the Web site with Google). You can now run a search in the A-Z index itself using keywords.

Calendars

Links to the University Web Calendars. Three calendars are available, the event calendar the academic calendar and the holiday calendar.

MyUSU

MyUSU is a useful new page where you will find easy login access to:

  • ACCESS (Banner)
  • WebMail
  • Library
  • WebCT and Syllabase

This page groups some of the links that were listed on the top in the old design. This is the first step toward a login portal where you can access personal logins. Links requiring login, such as Webmail, Access or the Library are now easily accessible on the MyUSU page.

Contact

The contact page lists the main contact information for the University administration and the different colleges. It also provides two suggestions boxes, one for the university in general and one for the Web site.

People/web Search

The new search page groups every kind of search you can do on the main Web site. It groups the A-Z index, the Google search to search USU Web sites and the functions from the old "directories" link, which has been simply divided in two searches: the phonebook search (mainly faculty, staff and departmental contacts) and emails search.

Navigation Portals

Audience Portals

Audience portals provide categories of links and information that are of interest for 5 main groups of users: Future Students, Current Students, Faculty & Staff, Alumni & Friends, Community & visitors. These 5 "audience portals" will be on most of the main levels of the Web site so users can always easily go back to their portal to find more information.

Information portal

Based on the same concept as the Audience portal, information portals list the main links to major sections of the Web site. There are 3 information portals: Administration, Student Life, and Museums & Arts.

If you have more questions regarding the redesign, please contact us.