[Sigia-l] University intranets

[Donna Maurer]

I think that part of the rationale is that many students and some staff 
use the intranet/site from locations off campus. I certainly never use 
my university site from campus, and my students do a lot of their work 
from outside campus as well. But my universities don't have separate 
'intranets' - it is just the uni site.

One of the biggest tensions I have seen with the website/intranet model 
within organisations is that staff don't know what is on each site, and 
it is not sensible to duplicate it. One big site is useful sometimes (or 
search that covers both at least)

Donna

Justine Sanderson wrote:

> My questions are as follows:
>
> 1. Does anyone know the background or rationale to the above university
> model?
> 2. Has anyone struggled with this model when developing university
> intranets? What are the pros and cons?
> 3. Has anyone tried to change this model, i.e develop an university
> intranet distinct from the university's website? Is the cultural change
> required too big? What are the issues?
>
> Your thoughts greatly appreciated.
>

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