Introducing Community Home

June 28 2011, 10:14am

Community Home will replace My Home and be the new landing page for your campus. Starting July 6th, you will notice a new user experience when you login to OrgSync. All users will have a new landing page called Community Home, which has a variety of new features that will improve the usability of OrgSync and direct you to the most important happenings on campus and in your organizations.

Here is what to expect on July 6th when you login to OrgSync. New Styles The first thing you’ll notice is a new design style and customized top navigation bar that reflects your community’s or campus’s identity. In addition, each community will have their own community profile picture, which is similar to the user and organization profile picture and will be displayed on the upper left-hand side of Community Home.

Improved Navigation Bar The navigation bar at the top of the screen combines related features together and improves accessibility to any organization and community you’re involved with. The navigation bar includes the following tabs:

Community – Quickly visit your community’s landing page. Organizations – Jump into any organizations you are involved in. My Tools – Access your calendar, involvement manager, requests made and to-do lists. Notifications – View a list of your most recent notifications. Inbox – Includes messages, event and organization invitations and exports. Settings – Manage your account including notifications, memberships or get help and support.

Bookmarks Pre-selected bookmarks from your community administrator will allow you to directly move to other systems you already use on campus from OrgSync.

Updated News Feed The updated feed allows you to choose the information you see (filter by community, organizations, or people). The improvement in our feed allows you to interact directly with content so that you may now vote in a poll, RSVP for an event or comment on a news post without having to leave Community Home.

Offices Similar to Bookmarks, this section is controlled by the campus administration and allows you to quickly visit the most important umbrellas (campus departments) and organizations in your community. For example, you can quickly access your Student Life Umbrella, Residence Hall Umbrella, or Student Government Portal directly from community home.

Promotions At the top of Community Home, is a rotating banner that will allow campus administrators to spotlight upcoming campus events and important information that everyone in the community needs to be made aware of. For example, your campus may spotlight upcoming volunteer opportunities, SGA elections or campus welcome events.

Weather View the latest weather updates on your campus.

Suggested Organizations OrgSync will begin recommending organizations in your community based on your interests.

If you have any questions or need help, feel free to contact us. We’re very excited to be releasing these updates for all OrgSync users across our 180 campus partners. Make sure to send us your feedback on July 6th and let us know what you think.