Institution
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Portal
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Coverage
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Functions
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Comment
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Queen's University, Belfast
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Bespoke system
developed mainly using PHP and
JAVA
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Students and staff
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All core online University business is conducted using the
Queen's Online (QOL) Portal. The system seamlessly joins
together a host of backend systems and provides a single
username and password for user access.
There are about 130 online applications covering all aspect of
staff and student interaction with the University, including:
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Personal information management,
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General staff and student administration,
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Salary and other financial transactions,
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Module and pathway Performa,
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Built-in bespoke VLE with some 3000+ modules,
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Research facilities highlighting current opportunities and
assisting with grant applications
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Facilities for email and file store.
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Uses Ingres and MS SQL Server backend
databases
When looking at the implementation of a portal
for Queen's University some 5 years ago we
decided that the portal solution adopted must
serve all our audiences, support all our
primary/legacy technologies in one umbrella
environment and have a single point of logon. At
the time the market presented us with very few
properly 'joined-up' options so we designed and
developed our own system.
The QOL Portal is kept under review and we are
currently assessing the available open source
and commercial technologies that will help us
achieve our University objectives for the next 5
years.
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Sheffield College,
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In house
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Staff and students
primarily
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MySheffcol is a Content Management Systems. It is used thus:
to deliver online and blended learning; to support administrative
and management functions, such as providing an area for
publicising and booking staff training events; for course teams to
share information and content
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Developed in house, using consultancy from
Futurate http://www.futurate.com/. We also use
Moodle as our VLE.
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The Adam Smith College,
Fife
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In house
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staff and students
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booking meeting rooms, requesting audio visual support,
searching and requesting materials from Reprographics, links to
MIS (at that time we used FEMIS) to search for student records
information, provided access to college quality documents etc.
We were working on a link to our VLE (Teknical's Virtual
Campus) to authenticate students from the portal to their VLE
account
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Since the merger of Fife College and Glenrothes
College to form the new college are moving to
Microsoft Sharepoint
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University of Glasgow
Medical School
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In house
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Staff and students
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timetabling, booking systems and information resources, and
provides a comprehensive database driven system to support
delivery of Medical curriculum. It provides a single point login for
all our staff and students and additionally acts a focus for
collecting all our feedback on course and staff activity.
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operational since 1998. It is shortly to get LDAP
authentication added so our students only login
to the University once
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University of Portsmouth
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In house
Based on HTML/JAVA/PLSQL
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live student and staff
portals
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covering all key student records data and assessment,
timetabling, library, staff-student messaging, VLE links.
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We are moving to our second version as part of a
new SRecords implementation and will move it all
under ORACLE portal as the hosting
infrastructure, providing we can link with Novell
Directory Services.
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Leeds Metropolitan University
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Luminis
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Royal Holloway
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Luminis
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Students register for academic year of study Student Message of
the Day service (rss) Reuters news headlines (rss) Email View
and update student record details - including address, next of
kin, current enrolments + ...
View student financial transactions and make payments View pdf
of fees and accommodation invoices View Examinations
timetable View Exam results View library account (staff and
student) Online reading lists for courses New books in the library
(rss) New journal issues in the library (rss) Information about
Student Loan Company applications Information about students
college accommodation (what rooms they have been allocated)
Library opening hours information Links to key campus services
Links to key library resources Report and track problems with our
Facilities Management helpdesk (nominated staff only) Enter
details into student gradebook (nominated staff only) Staff
intranet news (rss)
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Previously used uPortal with a limited availability.
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University College Chichester
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Luminis
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University of Birmingham
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Luminis
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University of Greenwich
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Luminis
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As well as our student records system we intend to integrate our
corporate VLE(WebCT), email and library systems
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We intend to go live with the system a the
beginning of the 06/07 academic year
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University of Nottingham
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Luminis
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University of Sheffield
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Luminis
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University of Ulster
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Luminis
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University of Wales,
Bangor
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Luminis
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University of Leeds
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Luminis and CMS
(some uportal development)
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access to student record, online registration, online module
enrolment (all Banner), library account (III Millenium), VLE
(Bodington), email (Webmail and OWA). Others under
development
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in development; Going live in May 06 to all
undergrads.
Under discussion: - plans to extend portal
lifecycle to post grads, applicants, prospects,
alumni and staff.
Also under discussion: - plans to extend
functionality to integrate portal/VLE more closely.
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University of Southampton
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Luminis version 3.iii.1
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all current members of
the university
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provide access to pretty much every online university resource -
the Corporate & Marketing department making use of the portal
so that all the information on our website (
www.soton.ac.uk) is
"outward facing" for marketing and recruitment purposes.
We've got single sign on to email, Blackboard, ePrints,
AdminServices (staff and student housekeeping stuff like
Timetables, financial accounts, car parking applications etc.).
We're currently developing single sign on to a careers database
for current students, an RAE related database for the university's
submission for the exercise and our software download site.
What we don't have (but plenty of others do, and it pains me
because I'm a librarian by profession) is single sign on to library
applications.
This is because we don't have Athens DA (Distributed
Authentication) or any library "portal" such as Metalib etc. There
is a Shibboleth project going on (slowly) which will help us
improve our service in this area in the future.
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student view, a support & professional services
staff view, and a faculty (teaching staff) view.
plans to develop an alumni and prospective
students' portal
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Brockenhurst College
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Microsoft SharePoint
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Live for learners,
parents, staff, governors, partner
organisations
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College info/news, targeted links, e-learning resources,
discussion groups, document repository, search, student ILPs,
personalisation through My Site, integration with Active Directory
and with MIS using sweet.net toolkit
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Pretty easy to use out the box. Low cost at start-
up - basic WSS is part of W2K3. Straightforward
development of bespoke webparts using Visual
Studio (recent release of .NET2 etc should
improve this further). Nice integration with MS
Office and a growing range of other MS servers
and apps. Current version is lacking in
accessibility functionality. Can be tricky getting
support info out of MS - unless working via one of
their channel partners (which can be expensive).
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Cardiff University
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Novell portal
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London Southbank University
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Oracle linked to
LDAP being investigated
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Via the portal we would expect students to see:
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Latest news, events, service information and important links
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to other information to students from LSBU, his/her faculty,
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student union / other LSBU student organisations
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Individual messages to them from LSBU
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A link to see their financial position with LSBU
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A link to see their marks from the SRS
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A link to resources in LIS where they could see what they
had
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loaned, extend loans, etc.
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A link to reading lists for the courses that they are on
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A link the Blackboard sites that they are connected to
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A link to personal workspace where files can be stored
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A link to their emails
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Links that they could add themselves to other sites
Via the portal we would expect staff to see:
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Latest news, events, service information and important links
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to other information to staff from LSBU, his/her faculty/dept,
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other LSBU staff organisations
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Individual messages to them from LSBU
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A link to the SRS so academics could access information
about
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the students enrolled on their courses / units
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A link the Blackboard sites that they are managing
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A link to the finance department so they could see salary
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information
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A link to the Staff Development Unit so that they could see
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their personal development plan and available staff
development
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opportunities and book them
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A link to resources in LIS where they could see what they
had
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loaned, extend loans, etc.
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A link to personal workspace where files can be stored and
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shared
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A link to their emails
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Links that they could add themselves to other sites
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Imperial College London
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Oracle Portal
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in development
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University of Abertay
Dundee
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Oracle Portal
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Staffordshire University
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Oracle Portal (CampusEAI)
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For corporate use.
Currently at proof of concept stage
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University of Bradford
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Oracle Portal (CampusEAI)
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Selected and starting implementation,
specifically developing proof of concept
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University of Exeter
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Oracle Portal (CampusEAI)
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all students and staff
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e-mail (using Squirrelmail), WebCT, III Millenium and some form
of access to a networked filespace (using WebDAV functionlity,
based on the idea of uPortal's Briefcase)
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Production version by September 2006
investigating integration with eVision (SITS),
Syllabus Plus (Scientia) and the integration of
RSS feeds as a method for notification
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Southampton Solent University
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Oracle Portal in
conjunction with Contensis CMS
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Students, then staff
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student email, timetabling, course alerts, VLE provisions, library
systems info (late books etc), student files, social alerts, phone
book, finance debt/credit, and eventually
everything !!
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We hope to have our student intranet replaced by
start of ac06-07 with the other services and our
staff intranet moving into the portal as the year
goes on.
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University of York
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Pilot project looked
at Oracle 9iAS. Now considering
uPortal.
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Initial phases will include access to e-mail, calendaring and news
information.
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The VLE (Blackboard) integration will form part of
the phased development along with corporate
applications such as access to our finance
system (for those with appropriate authorisation).
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University of Newcastle
upon Tyne
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SAP
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Birkbeck College (University
of London)
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uPortal
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for our L4ALL
pilot system (not for roll out
across the uni though!)
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See: http://ww.lkl.ac.uk/research/l4all/for more
detail on the project.
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De Montfort University
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uPortal
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Students
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individual timetable information and assessment results through a
direct link to student records and uploaded data from the
academic database and time tabling
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London Metropolitan University
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uPortal
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in development
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London School of Economics
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uPortal
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in process of transition from in-house portal
solution
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Manchester
Metropolitan University
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uPortal
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Staffordshire University
Regional Federation
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uPortal
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Currently at proof of concept stage
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University of Bristol
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uPortal
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University of Edinburgh
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uPortal
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staff, students and alumni
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most are available via the portal - Personal HR or student data;
library personal record & catalogue; VLE; voting (eg rectoral
election, Students association); announcements; access to call
management service (user support for various groups); access to
Student information system; course bookings & admin, ... Lots
and its growing all the time
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University of Hull
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uPortal
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University of Liverpool
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uPortal
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University of Manchester
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uPortal
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student portal
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launch planned for autumn 06
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University of Oxford
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uPortal
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University of the
West of England
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uPortal
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in development
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