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As of July 2024, our Marketing team transitioned to a new website. One of the primary goals of the new website is to have a marketing-focused website that will be easy to navigate and provide information that is important to prospective students and families. To help ensure that it’s easier for this audience to find relevant information, a significant part of this project includes reducing the amount of internal focused content that is currently on the site. With this, we recognized the importance of this content, and developed a plan to move the information.
In addition to the framingham.edu website being redesigned, our vendor officially ended support for the portal that we use for MyFramingham on July 1, 2024. Meaning, the system would no longer receive updates, patches, or technical assistance.
With both of these initiatives and our ongoing effort to enhance efficiency and streamline internal communication, we are introduced a new SharePoint Intranet.
Why SharePoint Intranet?
Our Marketing team had worked with departments across the University, both academic and administrative, to ensure the information our prospective students and their families both need and are interested in is easily accessible. This led us to depart from a website navigation that mirrors our institutional structure to one that is dictated by the “Persona” a student most closely identifies with: first-year student, transfer student, graduate student, or continuing education student. This Persona model allows prospective students to have a more personalized experience, by providing the information and content that is most relevant to them.
Our goal with this initiative is to create a secure and user-friendly environment for all internal communications, information sharing, and collaboration. To achieve this, we provided training to assist with moving your department's internal content from our public website to SharePoint. This strategic shift will help us maintain a clear separation between internal and public content, ensuring that sensitive information remains protected.
Getting Started with SharePoint:
This knowledge article goes over the basics of the New MyFramingham.
If you would like to be a content manager of your department's site in the new MyFramingham, please reach out to us using this service. ITS will provide access and send training materials, including this knowledge article.
Project Timeline (Completed)
- September 2023: SharePoint Intranet Introduction (Training 1)
- October through November 2023: Moving Assets and Site Building (Training 2)
- December 2023 through January 2024: Additional Support Training (As Requested)
- December 2023 through February 2024: Readiness Review Period
- Initiated by you or someone in your department when site is ready for review.
- March 1, 2024: Soft Launch
- July 1, 2024: MyFramingham Switch
The intranet is now live. Now what?
As of March 1st, the intranet is now live. You may follow this article if you need help navigating the system.
If your department was unable to get your site ready, you are still welcome to join the intranet at any time! Please reach out to ITS through this service so we may create your site and give you access to edit.
We are excited about this important step in enhancing our campus communication and collaboration. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out to our dedicated support team. This service allows you to learn more information and request help. For questions regarding the framingham.edu, please reach out to the Marketing and Communications department at web@framingham.edu.
Thank you for your cooperation and support as we work together to make our campus communication more efficient and secure.