September 28, 2006
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> Foothill-De Anza Portal Rollout to All Employees
> How to Login to the Portal
> How and Why to Choose a "Strong" Password
> Using External Applications
> Add or Remove Portlets from My Page (RSS Feeds)
> What Does "Portal Beta Test" Mean?
> The Team Behind the Portal Project
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The Foothill-De Anza District Portal, a central webpage that makes tailored, password-protected information accessible to different segments of the District technology user population, is now available to all faculty and staff. Full story
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Before you can access the portal, you'll need to login to the home page. This is a security feature of the portal to ensure that users only gain access to the areas they are authorized to enter, and that confidential employee and student information is kept secure. Full story
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The Foothill-De Anza District Portal provides access to a wide array of data, including confidential information about yourself or students – such as email account or pay-stub information, or class rosters. For this reason, it is critical that you know how to help protect this information. One way you can do this is by choosing a strong password. Full story
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On the My Workplace page, you have single sign-on access to commonly used external applications such as the Library Catalog, FHDA Reports, FHDA Webmail and MeetingMaker. Full story
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The My Page tab enables you to customize content to meet your information needs. You do this using the "Add or Remove Portlets" section of the page. The example shown in this article is called the RSS portlet, which allows you to subscribe to "feeds" from a source that will create a list of links to content you may find interesting. Full story
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You may well wonder why it says "Portal Beta Test" at the top of each page in the portal. Although we are releasing the portal for all employees to use, we want everyone to understand that the portal is still new and may have inconsistencies or "bugs" in how it operates. Full story
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Several individuals were instrumental in creating and rolling out the Foothill-De Anza Portal project. In many cases the portal project team members worked hard to learn an entirely new environment, and as a result are now able to continue adding new functionality to the portal to make it even more useful for District users. Full story
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