Project Status

Current Phase
The project team has launched CUConnect, introducing it to the Residence Halls on January 21, 2004. CUConnect currently offers the following features to students when they first login:

• Login
  • Identikey-based login for security and personalization
  • CUConnect Documentation
  • Revert to default profile function
  • Guest login to preview the portal
• Welcome tab
  • Student profile (display of academic demographic information)
  • Student poll (with a new poll offered weekly)
  • Academic calendar (current semester)
  • Vital Announcements (directed to student based upon profile)
  • Campus news from the University News Center
  • Campus Images
  • CU Search
• Courses & Grades tab
  • Student's schedule and grades
  • Course lookup
  • GPA calculator
  • WebCT (student's on-line courses) with pass through authentication
• Academic Resources tab
  • Academic links
  • Advising links (based upon school or college)
  • University catalogs
• PLUS tab
  • All PLUS features with pass through authentication
• Financial tab
  • Financial links
  • Student employment listings
• Student Life tab
  • UCSU News
  • Health & Wellness/Body & Mind News
  • Ralphie's Guide
  • Student Services links
• My Page tab
  • Personal bookmarks
  • Campus WebCam
  • Boulder Weather
• WebCal tab (personal calendaring with pass through authentication)
• WebMail link
• Help documentation

Additional features that can be added by the student, if desired, include:

• News from various Schools, Colleges and departments (such as College of Music News, School of Journalism News, ITS News and Housing News).
• Student's finals schedule
• Law School grades
• Daily Business cartoon
• Word of the Day

… with more features on the drawing board!

Future Phases
CUConnect will continue to be enhanced throughout the Spring, Summer and Fall 2004. Features under consideration for CUConnect include:

• Account management
• Address update
• Advisor name added to the Advising channel
• Announcement topic refinement
• Arts & Sciences Advising pass through authentication
• Bookswap
• Buff OneCard features (print balance, etc.)
• Bursar features (bill balance, bill detail, on-line payment)
• Calendar of campus deadlines through WebCal
• Calendar of events
• Career Services integration with BuffLink
• Course information (consolidated references to course pages)
• Course lookup and schedule planner enhancements
• Dining menus
• Fact of the day
• Financial Aid applications (application status, award status, etc.)
• Health Insurance sign up and waiver
• iVote
• Library channel (links, quick search, etc.)
• Link locations to map
• News channels (additional news channels for the portal including Diversity News, Professional Development News, and news from additional schools and colleges.)
• Off campus housing search
• Picture of the day (student photography)
• PLUS migration (migrate features from PLUS to the portal)
• Registrar's clearinghouse integration (enrollment verification)
• Registration
• Service Center hours and contact information
• Student Activities/Club guide
• Student File System

All suggestions, comments and recommendations regarding the future of CUConnect are welcome. Please send them to cuconnect@colorado.edu