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Post subject: MyUMUC - good or bad?
 Posted: Jun 15, 2005 - 11:04 AM
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I got an email from UMUC today that talks about MyUMUC. It will offer real-time bill paying and registration, 24-hour access to student services, and consolidated financial aid information. I'm glad to see UMUC will finally get real time registration. It's hard to believe they are still manually processing online registration. It caused me to be incorrectly billed a late fee.
According to the university, MyUMUC will eventually allow you to collaborate with others. Maybe it will replace the need for this site. I wonder how it will be moderated and what they mean by collaboration.
| Quote: | | MyUMUC is flexible and is designed with you in mind. With MyUMUC, you are able to customize your pages and your layout. Another goal of MyUMUC is to create a virtual community that extends beyond the classroom—a comfortable environment where you can get information and access the services you need. In future versions of MyUMUC, you will be able to collaborate with others. Continuously evolving, MyUMUC will grow with you during your career at the university. |
What do you think of the proposed MyUMUC? |
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Post subject: RE: MyUMUC - good or bad?
Posted: Jun 22, 2005 - 11:08 AM
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| I'm having a horrible time with MyUMUC. It won't let me retrieve my password and the help desk hasn't helped at all. I'm starting to worry that I may not get into the classes I need. Also, the search on the schedule of classes is confusing. I had to find out from my advisor what the "TERM" was for Fall (2058), because the Term search came up with nothing. He said he would pass on my info to the help desk, but they're the same people I've been dealing with. I had a MySite at my old college and it malfunctioned often. I hope this one turns out better. |
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Post subject: RE: MyUMUC - good or bad?
Posted: Jun 23, 2005 - 07:48 AM
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| I think MyUMUC is outstanding. It takes a little getting used to....but since we all are supposed to be highly educated people, I think we can handle it. The schedule of classes is very easy to navigate and everything is real-time finally!!!! |
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Post subject: RE: MyUMUC - good or bad?
Posted: Jun 29, 2005 - 03:48 PM
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| You're supposed to get your username and password to log in to myumuc. Wait a few more days and they should send it to you. |
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Post subject: RE: MyUMUC - good or bad?
Posted: Jul 02, 2005 - 02:30 PM
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| Anonymous wrote: | | You're supposed to get your username and password to log in to myumuc. Wait a few more days and they should send it to you. |
I never got the email from MyUMUC stating what my number was for retrieving my ID and password. I had to write them and have them send it to me. Somehow I got skipped. Then, I tried to get my password and a window kept popping up saying that my email and/or birthdate were wrong. So, I emailed them again. They said to wait the weekend and try again. So I did and it didn't work, so I emailed them again. They never replied back. So, I was talking to my advisor and I brought up how I was worried I would miss out of getting into a certain class again. He told me to send him the list of classes I wanted and he would register me AND send on my info to the MyUMUC Help Desk. A couple days later, it started working for me.
MyUMUC is pretty nice so far. |
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Post subject: MyUMUC costs $35 million?
Posted: Jul 18, 2005 - 10:07 PM
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In a recent interview, President Heeger said
| Quote: | | In addition, we have invested $35 million in a new PeopleSoft Enterprise Information System that will integrate our course delivery platform with our worldwide student information system and also give us a single human resources and financial infrastructure to undergird our virtual and worldwide operations. |
What system is he talking about? MyUMUC? Or another system? |
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Post subject: Re: MyUMUC - good or bad?
Posted: Aug 20, 2005 - 04:53 PM
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What do you think of the proposed MyUMUC? |
While real time transactions may be a boon (I haven't run into major problems with ISIS), I find most of the benefits to be window dressing to information that can just as easily be displayed on ISIS. So most of this is fluff; the benefits not as noteworthy as touted (I don't see real time transactions as all that beneficial, but nice to have, sure).
Recently, the several times I've used it, the system sure seems to run slowly... |
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Post subject: Re: MyUMUC costs $35 million?
Posted: Aug 20, 2005 - 04:54 PM
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| Tom wrote: | In a recent interview, President Heeger said
| Quote: | | In addition, we have invested $35 million in a new PeopleSoft Enterprise Information System that will integrate our course delivery platform with our worldwide student information system and also give us a single human resources and financial infrastructure to undergird our virtual and worldwide operations. |
What system is he talking about? MyUMUC? Or another system? |
I'd put my money on MyUMUC, which acts an awful lot like PeopleSoft software I've used. That's a lot of money for what boils down to real-time transactions! Of course, the window dressing is probably what students want these days. Is it a selling point for UMUC? Was there no way to make ISIS a real-time system? Maybe both? |
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Post subject: RE: Re: MyUMUC costs $35 million?
Posted: Aug 28, 2005 - 07:01 PM
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The ONLY benefit to MyUMUC that I have seen so far is the real time transaction when registering, etc. But ISIS should have had that ages ago. So far, MyUMUC does not have Account Balances, Unofficial Transcripts, or any of the common things that I use ISIS for.
Also, navigating to find a class is terrible. They assume I know what class I want to take. It took me downloading the course catalog, looking through the PDF, and then basically already knowing what I wanted in order to get MyUMUC to work for me. And I am a IFSM Major getting ready to graduate, and very computer literate. No user friendly, IMHO. |
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Post subject: my umuc- good or bad
Posted: Aug 28, 2005 - 08:05 PM
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| I've had a mix experience wity MyUMUC. At first, it seemed as if it would never run correctly, but now it seems to go a faster. I agree with the last poster about finding and registering for class. That was real work. It isn't as student friendly as they have intended it to be. |
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Post subject: Re: RE: Re: MyUMUC costs $35 million?
Posted: Aug 29, 2005 - 07:48 PM
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| Anonymous wrote: | The ONLY benefit to MyUMUC that I have seen so far is the real time transaction when registering, etc. But ISIS should have had that ages ago. So far, MyUMUC does not have Account Balances, Unofficial Transcripts, or any of the common things that I use ISIS for.
Also, navigating to find a class is terrible. They assume I know what class I want to take. It took me downloading the course catalog, looking through the PDF, and then basically already knowing what I wanted in order to get MyUMUC to work for me. And I am a IFSM Major getting ready to graduate, and very computer literate. No user friendly, IMHO. |
IN RE: Account Balances:
I can access mine and have been told to disregard ISIS statements. You may want to look into this further.
Registering was difficult. I also found myself downloading the .pdf course catalogue - no fun on dial-up, and had to convince myself it was worth it. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Re: MyUMUC costs $35 million?
Posted: Aug 31, 2005 - 02:29 PM
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UMUC technical support is great. It sends account info very quick, except the website design is a bit hokie. Most of the items are hidden in layers of menus upon menus. While it may make some people feel special upon memorizing each one, it does no wonder for me. I'll miss ISIS, the official UM site, though.
On topic of hokies, that's where I'm heading next ... VATech. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Re: MyUMUC costs $35 million?
Posted: Sep 22, 2005 - 05:56 AM
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| I'm faculty and the "myumuc" for me is a real mixed bag--highly confusing to navigate, inaccuracies in my personnel record that I can't change, etc. It's also in conflict with webtycho in some mysterious computer-like way that caused a bunch of tycho instabilities at the start of the term. Look forward to more glitches. Me, I'd just like to get an actual person on the phone when I call to the Adelphi headquarters. |
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Post subject: MyUMUC Peoplesoft junk
Posted: Dec 19, 2005 - 08:55 PM
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| MyUMUC Peoplesoft. This is why the IE requirement exists. I've finished my last class (CMIS 460) and I could care less about it if not for the fact I was considering their MS Software Engineering program at some point. Peoplesoft is a beast. If you have the skills to work on this beast they are hiring. I spend most of my time with Linux, Solaris or AIX so I have no love for this software. My system at home runs SuSE 9.3 so I can't even use MyUMUC. I have to use the kid's computer to do anything with it. WebTycho works fine with Mozilla - for now. No doubt there is some sort of "partership" involved - for large bundles of cash from the public sector. I think this whole thing was thought up by some MBA with no clue as to what they were buying into. It's pure crap thus far. |
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Post subject: RE: MyUMUC Peoplesoft junk
Posted: Dec 27, 2005 - 03:12 PM
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I had major problems with MyUMUC. This past sememster the financial aid office needed a form. They never bothered to tell me, though. When I finally contacted them about why my student loan hadn't been approved, they told me they'd left a notice posted on MyUMUC. I had to ask them what they meant. The school never sent me an e-mail about the program. I ask them to fax me a copy of the form so I can get it filed immediately. They refused, saying it would only be accepted through MyUMUC. Right. So, I had to contact the school to get my username and password. That took three days to get. I log in, wander down to the financial aid section, and find the link to the form they want me to fill out. The link was broken - every time you filled in a field in the form, it would reload and blank out whatever was filled in. I call the school yet again. They tell me to just print out the page and mail it in. I wanted to ask them why they didn't just fax me a copy of the form, but at that point I just wanted to get it over with. So, I print out the form and faxed it to the financial aid office. It took them a month to finally approve my financial aid application after they received it.
I contacted several people at the school about the fact that MyUMUC's financial aid section was broken, but never received any type of answer. |
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