Colorado State University

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Dear All,

I would like to update you on the progress and timeline for our new Departmental Website.First, I would like to thank all of you that have visited and tested the new site; your valuable feedback has helped fix plenty of bugs as well as make the site even better.Next, I would like to list the new items I have added to the site and urge you all to visit again, and play around with it!

SSL
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For any page that you will be submitting or sending information over the Internet, I have forced those pages to be encrypted through SSL – note that the link for the page will be HTTPS and not HTTP (Think of the S as standing for ‘Secure’).While we are testing, the domain for the site is www2 instead of www – and certain browsers don’t like this.In many cases, when you enter a secure page, your browser will warn you that the certificate is funky (or something like that) and that you should be careful – in these cases it is of course safe to proceed by ‘Adding an Exception’ or ‘Continuing Anyway’.This crazy behavior will vanish once our domain for the new site flips from www2 to www, so bear with it for now.

My Biology
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Based your specific roles, you will have access to different tools within My Biology.Roles include your department affiliation (Staff, Faculty, Graduate Student, Academic Professional) as well as other responsibilities, such as being a TWIB editor, or a Departmental Seminar and Event editor.Below I will list the roles and include the tools you will have access to:

Everyone
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– Update your General Information (Name, email, etc)
– Submit TWIB entries
– Edit the TWIB entries you have submitted

Faculty
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– Update your thumbnail photo for the Faculty page
– Update your larger photo that appears on your individual faculty profile page
– Manage the list of publications that appears on your individual faculty profile page, including the ability to upload a PDF version of the publication
– Edit your faculty details – research description etc.
– Post an Employment listing on the website
– Upload a syllabus PDF file which will appear in the Course Catalog
– Submit photos that will be displayed on the BioMeK displays in the lobby

Graduate Students
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– Update your thumbnail photo for the Graduate Student page
– Edit your graduate details – current lab, etc.
– Submit photos that will be displayed on the BioMeK displays in the lobby

Academic Professionals
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– Update your thumbnail photo for the Academic Professionals page
– Edit your AP details – current lab, etc.
– Submit photos that will be displayed on the BioMeK displays in the lobby

Staff
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– Update your thumbnail photo for the Staff page
– Edit your Staff details – blurb etc.
– Post an Employment listing on the website
– Upload a syllabus PDF file which will appear in the Course Catalog
– Submit photos that will be displayed on the BioMeK displays in the lobby
– Manage Seminars and Events

TWIB Editor
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– Edit and publish new and existing TWIBs

Seminar/Event Admin
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– Manage Seminars and Events

And, there is more to come!So, for now, what should you do?Well, if you are a Graduate Student or an Academic Professional, let me know so that you can appear on the appropriate page and have the ability to update that information in My Biology.My plan is to go live with this new site during the weekend of April 11th – time’s a’ tickin’!

PS – This is not an April fool’s joke.