Product News

Vol 8, Issue 5
September 19, 2007

eCollege enhances administrative control for the Campus Portal

eCollege has released a new administrative feature that increases control over the student functionality offered in the eCollege Campus Portal. With this new feature, schools that offer the Community Package as part of their Campus Portal can now control their students’ ability to create new clubs, study groups or alumni chapters. The K-12 schools supported by eCollege can more easily regulate the online activity of their students. 

Several of eCollege’s K-12 Educational Partners had requested that they have the ability to turn off this student functionality within their portals. However, universities and community colleges utilize this functionality, encouraging their students to create broad and specific online communities through clubs, study groups and alumni chapters.

This latest administrative enhancement supports eCollege’s commitment to meeting the needs of all Educational Partners. eCollege has enabled a new feature that allows schools to turn off this functionality for students. When this feature is turned off, only administrators can create clubs, study groups or alumni chapters in the Campus Portal. However, the feature can be left on for educational institutions who want their students to build online communities.

The figure below shows a student view of the Campus Portal with the Community Package. Notice that the Create link is available in the Club and Study Group nuggets. 

The figure below shows the Campus Portal with the new administrative feature with the student functionality turned off. Notice that the Create link is no longer available in the Club and Study Group nuggets. 

Contact your Client Services Consultant if you wish to learn more about this administrative feature in Campus Portal.