Wheaton Web Goals
The plan for the Wheaton Web has four primary goals. In the text below we've added bullets under each goal to describe particular initiatives we're undertaking to implement that goal.
There is also a version of this page that includes a status report on each web initiative as of January 8, 2008. (read more)
- Use the web to present Wheaton effectively to external audiences. In particular, tell Wheaton's stories to prospective students (and their parents), prospective donors, prospective faculty members, and others who have an interest in what the college is doing.
- Tell more Wheaton stories and show more Wheaton pictures
- Engage members of the community to find the juicy stuff that needs to be on the web and see that it gets there
- Make everything easier to find
- Use the web to support our students, faculty, and staff in their learning, teaching and work. In particular, bring together all of the disconnected web-based tools, technologies, and electronic resources the college has acquired over the years into one coherent working environment. Maximize the benefit the college gets from its investment in these resources.
- Make content and tools easily accessible by providing single sign-on access to email, course schedules, class lists, time sheets, course materials, benefits information, term bills, financial aid and more--everything that is currently available through any College web-based service--plus the general information available on the College's website
- Build and support Wheaton's community by using technology in new ways to organize and communicate
- Use the web to build a stronger community, one that has clear internal communication and a common shared base of information, news, and events. Support and enhance the communication efforts of groups, organizations, and committees.
- Provide a customizable destination for campus community members to receive information and services tailored to them including teaching and learning, productivity and business applications, and news and event information
- Assist College offices and departments, and student government, in communicating with their respective constituencies
- Provide tools for clubs, organizations, committees and other groups.
- Make Wheaton's web site and services sustainable.
- Replace old equipment and build a plan for regular renewal
- Move from homegrown software to vendor-supported software for key services
- Provide training and tools for web content authors throughout the college