Team sites help members of Lee groups share
Organizations at Lee looking for a better way to communicate, collaborate and share information need look no further: IT Systems provides members of groups at Lee with access to team sites through Portico.
Just what are team sites?
“They’re awesome is what they are,” said IT Systems Business Analyst LeAnn McElrath, the essential brain trust of the team sites project.
Team sites, McElrath elaborated, are sharepoint sites. This means that they can be used to upload a wide variety of content to the site that can be shared with all members of a designated group, or “team.”
Team sites make it possible for group members to share anything from announcements and calendars to files and pictures.
“The sky is kind of the limit with this technology,” McElrath said.
Organizations such as Greek, academic, and service-oriented clubs can even use the team sites to keep track of their membership.
IT Systems crafts and maintains team sites for all campus departments and organizations as it becomes aware of a group’s existence and its need to use the site. It is currently working to make sure the benefits of team sites are available to all clubs and their members.
To grant team site access to clubs, IT Systems gathers information about the clubs from the academic and student life sides of the university, and puts it into Colleague. This gives the appropriate capabilities to the organization participants that are on file. Once these people have access, they will have it for as long as they are in Lee’s Datatel system.
To access the team sites, one need only log in to Portico, scroll to the bottom and click on the tab that reads “My Team Sites.” From there the link to the desired team page can be selected, and access to all the things the team shares is granted.
Lee users should keep their eyes peeled for what technological advances will come next.