Web Portals for Higher Education: Microsoft Education Solutions

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Higher Education portal solutions

Education portals create a common gateway to the data and services that the people throughout your university need to effectively share information and work together on projects. Education portals can be built on technologies you may already have—such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows Server—extending the value of your investment in Microsoft technologies.

Some of the things you can do with a Microsoft portal solution include:

Record and share grades with students electronically
Create online communities for students, faculty, administrators, and alumni to collaborate
Facilitate sharing of best practices among faculty and administrators
Enable students, faculty, administrators, and alumni to access your institution’s resources anytime from any connected device
Post lesson plans, coursework, research content, and more to online document libraries
Provide Web-based class registration, tuition and financial aid payments, and other services
Create dashboards that show up-to-date student performance data to inform instruction and decisions
Share information with your board of directors and community members

Solving real-world challenges

A Web portal can help you address several key challenges, including:

Innovative and effective instructional resources and methods not being shared among faculty members
Uninformed and uninvolved alumni and community leaders
Students receiving only periodic feedback on performance and progress
Student information, such as class schedules, health records, and grade transcripts kept in different places requiring different systems to access
Not having access to the information needed to make informed decisions

Key benefits

Microsoft education portal solutions can help you:

Increase student engagement. Give students easy ways to connect with their professors and their peers to get them more engaged in their classes.
Facilitate anytime, anywhere learning. Provide your students with single sign-on access to learning materials and campus resources—from library content to complete online courses—at any time, from virtually anywhere, and from any type of connected device. You’ll create a virtual campus that never closes.
Make better decisions. Inform routine decisions and long-range strategic planning across all business functions and disciplines with accurate, readily-available data presented in intuitive and familiar formats.
Let faculty focus on research and instruction. Make it easier for your faculty to find instructional resources; assess students; record and track grades; and communicate with their colleagues and students, and they will have more time and energy to focus on important research and facilitate meaningful learning experiences that meet the unique needs of individual students.
Streamline administrative tasks. Make it easy for students to register for classes, access financial aid information, pay their tuition, sign-up for lunch programs, report absences, and more from any computer.
Connect with your community. By proving simple and customized ways to access information and connect with your institution, you can reap the benefits of strong connections with alumni and other members of the broader community.

Why choose Microsoft?

With Microsoft education portal solutions, you get:

Reduced costs. Take advantage of your existing investments in Microsoft products, such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office, and Windows Server.
Flexible functionality and deployment. Microsoft education portals are simple enough for novice users, yet robust enough for power users. A scalable, standards-based platform means you can start small and roll-out new features and functionality as you are ready.
Familiar and intuitive interfaces. Adding and customizing content on your portal is easy thanks to an intuitive interface and the ability to integrate with familiar Microsoft Office applications, such as Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft Office Excel.
Personalized, role-based access. Providing single sign-on access to content on your portal based on role is simple, so you can ensure everyone can find what they need and only what they are authorized to see. Setting-up personalized dashboards that put key information and applications (such as class schedules and e-mail) in one place is a snap.
Robust support community. Join a large group of other educators from around the world who are having success with portals and sharing their best practices.
Strong partner ecosystem. Microsoft has partners you can trust to help you build the right portal solution for your institutions.
World-Class Microsoft national education services practice. A dedicated national Microsoft education services team assists partners and customers with their enterprise collaboration strategy and architectural designs using best practices within K-12 and higher education markets.

Customer success case studies

Regis University delivers anywhere access to its portal, including Microsoft SharePoint Portal Services

Regis University had been looking at ways to provide its faculty, staff, and students secure access to its portal from anywhere at any time. They wanted to guarantee complete functionality while ensuring granular policy-based access control and a consistent end-user experience. For Regis University it was paramount that the integrity of its SharePoint Portal Server 2003 implementation and the applications and resources it housed was maintained to deliver a seamless user experience, regardless of location. That led them to a Microsoft-based solution.

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The following Microsoft partners offer Microsoft accountability and assessment solutions for primary/secondary education:

Adventos LLC

(720) 228-4138
Adventos is a technical consulting firm that helps organizations achieve higher levels of effectiveness. Theri focus is helping clients become self sufficient. An experienced team helps increase knowledge and skill levels throughout the development lifecycle. They go beyond traditional training and ensure skills transfer through on-the-job training, coaching, and mentoring on Microsoft technologies, including SharePoint and SQL Server.

Ascentium Corporation

(425) 519-7700
Ascentium Corporation is an award-winning, integrated technology and marketing consultancy with a proven track record in delivering information-driven business solutions to achieve the strategic objectives of their clients. Ascentium developed information-driven business solutions based on Microsoft technology and development platforms. Ascentium partners and employees offer clients the benefit of decades of experience in business strategy, application development, Web development, and integrated marketing.

Avanade

(206) 239-5600
Avanade can help you achieve your goals with a collaboration and communication solution that is cost-effective, easily integrated, and scalable, enabling users to share information more efficiently across your institution.

B2B Technologies

(404) 892-1500
B2B is Microsoft Gold Certified Partner that combines extensive education experience with deep expertise in Microsoft technologies to deliver leading-edge solutions to education organizations of all sizes. B2B delivers cost-effective solutions to the educational institutions while fostering the best-of-breed ideas gained from its work with commercial clients.

Dell

(800) 574-9920
Dell has always placed a high-value on education and is committed to continuing to improve the classroom experience for educators and students across all education segments. From making technology more affordable, available and efficient, to implementing programs that help incorporate technology into the curriculum, Dell is passionate about simplifying IT for educators and helping students achieve the 21st Century skills they need to compete in the global economy.

Fujitsu

(888) 385-4878
Fujitsu can help you offer students, faculty, and staff great technology products that suit your academic programs as well as your campus mission and environment.

IDS

(800) 500-8614
IDS specializes in helping you digitize, route, archive and access documents and electronic files through a suite of solutions tailored to your school environment.

Inetium

(952) 646-0800
Utilizing SharePoint technologies, Inetium provides institutions with a single platform to address multiple scenarios: personal sites, team sites, enterprise Intranet portals, and institution Internet presence Web sites.

NuSoft Solutions

(248) 813-7200
NuSoft’s intuitive solutions provide schools with powerful student assessment and accountability tools which also increase collaboration between teachers, students and parents. By helping institutions implement Microsoft’s Learning Gateway, Dell’s School Architecture, and NuSoft’s Connected Learning Framework, we enable educators to make better, more accurate decisions and improve learning.

Planet Technologies

(301) 721-0100
Planet Technologies understands that technology alone is not enough to provide our customers with useful, manageable and often visited collaboration sites. Planet has extensive experience in the design and management of SharePoint portal solutions. By offering a complete life cycle of portal services, Planet is able to meet the needs and budgets of a wide-range of customers.

Sogeti USA

(800) 899-9849
As one of a handful of Microsoft Global Systems Integrator partners, Sogeti specializes in implementing Microsoft-based technology solutions that improve organizational processes and performance, including .NET Application Transformation, Information Management, Collaboration & Productivity, Infrastructure Transformation, Enterprise Project Management, and Enterprise Business Solutions. Sogeti’s Public Sector Practice provides expertise in delivering solutions are built upon proven and repeatable service offerings, based on industry best practices, and coupled with public sector know-how to help tackle the unique challenges faced by educational institutions.

Solutions IQ

(800) 235-4091
SolutionsIQ is an experienced Microsoft Learning Gateway and SharePoint Learning Kit solutions provider. SolutionsIQ offers a flexible delivery model that scales to meet the needs of small, midsized, and large organizations. As a Consultative Partner, SolutionsIQ provides you professional staffing, engineering, and information technology expertise on an as needed basis to assess needs, define requirements, develop conceptual architecture, or define the scope of a project in close partnership with you. SolutionsIQ has deployed Learning Gateway for Secondary schools and Higher Education.

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Search for partners in the Microsoft Public Sector Partner Solution MarketPlace, a one-stop Web site for finding technology partners that offer a broad range of products, services, and solutions based on Microsoft technologies. The directory includes packaged software, solutions offerings, and training from Microsoft Gold Certified Partners, Microsoft Certified Partners, and registered members.