OS+-+Parliament

This page is for notes for the Open Space Sessions in Parliament.

Conveners, you (or your designee) should update your wiki page with:
 * How to best reorganize your portals (until the new products launch!)
 * Convener: Linda Stratton, Director of Communications, St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School, Alexandria, VA
 * names of the participants
 * and a high-level summary and sharing of resources

Just some simple notes on the session (please chime in and edit as you can):

This session was focused on portal use, segmentation and discussion on how portals are used. Some schools used portals segmented by role: parents, students alumnae, etc. Other schools were topic based: news and announcements, parent help, downloads, etc.

Discussion around public, vs private portals, role specific content channels and portal sort orderbranched quickly into talk about how and why portals are used, how some schools use role specific page builder pages for similar content and more. One school suggested links to pages forspecific grades for PA content, and others talked about portal aggregcommunity group contenI.

Many schools seemed to have a landing portal that waschock full of content an academic portal with performance and schedule content and possibly an alumnae portal.

Questions were quickly raiseAsia the portal would even exista with the new environment showcased by Travis. this am. Someoe fetched a WH rep and asked about bestpractices of portal use and if the portal would even exist in the future. Start with one portal, was the recommendation. Will the portal exist in thefuture? We are not sure.

Should we take our current portals and try to configure the content to mimic this new environment? Is there a way to ease the community into a transition?