Introducing my.monash

Business goals

The my.monash portal aims to be the primary information and communication tool for the university's staff and students. Its business goals are to:

• aggregate relevant information, links and other online resources in a secure, personalised environment
• provide each member of the university community with a gateway to the resources they are likely to need based on their roles and responsibilities
• provide flexible access to user-centred electronic resources in the areas of learning and teaching, administration, research and community.

The portal as a learning and teaching tool

The portal provides access to a range of learning and teaching related services. Access to services such as Blackboard (which is part of the Monash University Studies Online (MUSO) suite of Learning Management Systems) and course booklists appear by default in students' 'Study and enrolment' tab.

Each Monash unit has a discrete portal page that staff and students of that unit can access. Teaching staff can edit unit pages to enhance their students' learning experience by providing information, links, discussion groups and various resources relating to that unit. Getting started: my.monash guide for teaching staff (209Kb PDF) contains instructions on how to edit unit pages and request and use discussion groups: it provides a good overview of the type of learning and teaching related functionality provided by portal unit pages.

Accessing my.monash

You can login to my.monash from home, the university's computer labs, your local library - anywhere in the world! All you need is access to the internet and your Authcate account username and password! Just go to http://my.monash.edu.au

A message from the FLT team about feedback

Since the launch of my.monash it has been our policy to encourage and respond to input and ideas from members of the Monash community. This has helped us develop my.monash in line with suggestoins from our users.

We believe portal users know what they need better than we do. If you have a suggestion for how you think portal services could be improved, we would love to hear from you! You can send your contributions and suggestions to us by clicking on the Feedback link in the top right hand corner of any my.monash page.

Feedback from students

Feedback received from students and staff indicates a measure of success in achieving these goals:

• 'Just wanted to let you guys know what a really great job this monash university portal is. I'm an off-campus student in Singapore and instead of having to deal with a whole lot of arcane and obscure links to access my unit pages, this whole streamlined access is amazing. My first degree was from ... and i tell u hands down, if i had know what a truly professional organisation Monash was, i would have made you guys my first choice ... I am truly very impressed by this means of integrating technology and the needs of its users. Great job all around.'
• 'I've been very impressed with how easy to use the my.monash portal has been.'
• 'I would like to say that the Results by SMS function is fantastic. I will be on holidays during the results release period and this will save me alot of trouble, as well as preventing me worrying about my results for three weeks. Thanks for providing this valuable service - and FREE too!'
• 'I am using your excellent 'Getting started' guide to edit the my unit pages for ENG1070 and ENG1071 ...'
• 'A help desk that lives up to its name! Thank you for your prompt and helpful response to my query. Brilliant guys!'
• '... this is a great service and I commend the university for providing it for students. it is up to date with technology and many students appreciate it a lot.'
• 'Hi Portal Team! I am very very very frequent user of the portal site! I think you've done a great job thus far! Congrats!'
• 'First time for me at Monash - my 4th University in 45 years. I'm very impressed with what you have done with my.monash. Current students may take it for granted, but I'm still at the 'wow look at this' stage. I really enjoy being back at Uni and as a part time external I look forward to my.monash making life so much simpler for me.'

Technical details

Information about the portal's architecture, interface design and personalisation can be viewed on the Technical details page

Contact

You can contact the my.monash team using the ITS request form (please specify that your message is for the my.monash team). If you do not have access to the Monash computer system (ie you don't have an Authcate username and password) please click on the button located at the bottom of the form.

If you are a staff member or a student at Monash please send us your suggestions or queries using the Feedback button located in the top right corner of your portal.