Changes to myUMBC for August 11, 2010

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:48:32 -0400

Today's phrase was "put a bow on it", meaning, lets wrap this myUMBC thing up and call it done. And we did. From this point forward, no more new features, just fleshing out some missing content and putting some extra polish on things.

That said, we managed to sneak something kinda cool in today:

"Magical" Search Box - It's not as magical as an iPad, yet, but give us a week or two to get it warmed up. Basically, we've given the search box in the top right of myUMBC the ability to recommend links, groups, and other content to you. It's smart in that it won't recommend faculty links to students and vice-versa, but its also dumb in that it will only recommend things that we tell it to recommend. We're going to be watching what people search for and use that data to help flesh out the recommendations. Keep in mind, this isn't a full-fledged search. That's a job best left to Google. However, if we can make it so that when you type "pay bill", we give you the direct link to pay your bill, then why not?

Get Ready for the Big Day: August 14th

Keep the comments and feedback coming!

Thanks,

Collier