UW graduate students now submit their theses and dissertations online rather than by paper, saving money and streamlining administrative steps. After a pilot in the fall, submissions began Spring Quarter 2012 and eliminated the required $25 binding fee, plus additional costs for printing and microfilming. Read the UW Graduate School blog to learn more.
The new UW Blogs Network makes it easy for UW faculty and staff to create and use a UW-branded WordPress blog that is accessible publicly. Just activate this UW NetID resource and log in to create your blog and posts without worrying about how it all works. UW-IT will keep the features up-to-date and provide UW-specific templates and plug-ins that let you track visits, add a contact form, and feature content from Twitter. Learn more.
A redesigned UW home page is now up and feedback is welcome. For a quick guide to the new pages you'll find, what pages have been redesigned, and what's still to come, visit the UW Web redesign blog. You'll find tips there about MyUW, and information about new tabs and sections.
The UW home page is headed for a major facelift this year, and the Marketing Web Team has set up a blog to chronicle some of the changes that are coming. The blog also includes links to valuable tools for anyone in the UW community to use to adopt or adapt the new branding for their sites. Check it out!
UserVoice is an online tool that allows you to submit and prioritize ideas for UW Web services development. Web services, a key technology allowing standards-based access to business processes and data, has enabled the m.UW iPhone application, advanced course search, Web grades collection, addition of student photos to MyUW class lists, and access to UW budget, vendor, and organization data.
Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA) is an important new paradigm for delivering data and automating processes because it enables UW developers to create Web pages and applications using formerly unavailable institutional data. OnTheROA, a new blog, keeps campus developers informed about this Web service activity at UW.
