The left column of the constituency page displays a calendar titled My Week.

• If you are taking or teaching Union classes, those will appear in your My Week calendar.
• If you see 'enter your credentials' at the top of the calendar, click it and you will be prompted to type your username and password. Doing this one-time setup will connect your portal constituency page to your private Union e-mail and calendar. From then on, every time you log into the portal you will see near-term calendar entries from your Union e-mail/calendar account displayed in the calendar. (Note: If you change your Union password, you will need to update this single-sign-on password as well.) Additionally, at the top of the middle column you will see an 'unread messages' count. This is the number of messages that are marked unread in your Union e-mail inbox. Clicking the unread-message link will open a window for the web-based version of your e-mail, just as if you had logged into mail.my.uu.edu (for students) or webmail.uu.edu (for employees).
• This ability to access another system securely without having to log in again is known as "single sign-on" or SSO. Once you have logged into the portal, it can verify your identity when you access specific other systems such as your e-mail and calendar. (You can learn more about your e-mail by clicking the Info link under the Student or Employee Resources header on the right side of this page.)

In addition to SSO access to your e-mail and calendar, students and employees also have SSO access to WebAdvisor through the portal, to check grades, view financial information, etc. WebAdvisor tools appear in the right column of the constituency page. For students and employees who have used the webadvisor.uu.edu web site in the past, the interface will be different but the tools available are the same. (You can learn more about WebAdvisor by clicking its Info link under the Student or Employee Resources header on the right side of this page.)

All employees will see an Applications tab in the right column of their constituency page. They can use the UI link there to access Datatel Colleague if they have job duties requiring it. Like the e-mail/calendar access above, Datatel Colleague UI use does require a one-time setup process for SSO. (Note: If you change your Union password, you will need to update this single-sign-on password as well.) You can read about this first-time setup process by clicking that link on the Applications tab of the portal constituency page. After that setup process, you can get into Datatel Colleague via the portal without having to log into Datatel again. (You can learn more about Datatel Colleague by clicking its Info link under the Employee Resources header on the right side of this page.)

Academic Resources lists primarily student-oriented departments or areas that focus on academic development and work.

• Academic Center - This area is also known as the registrar's office. The first resource to be offered here will be the complete set of curriculum maps for the university. To learn more, read the Information Site section below.
• Office of the Provost / Academic Administration - All proposed changes to any university curriculum are posted in an employee-only site here. All employees can view basic information about the curriculum proposal process. Faculty are able to read and comment on specific proposals submitted to the Office of the Provost.

Student Resources lists primarily student-oriented departments or areas that focus on non-academic support/services.

• Resources such as access to the Student Services portal site will be added here.

UU Resources lists departments or areas that provide support/services for students and employees.

• Human Resources - This employee-only link will provide convenient access to HR information needed by all employees. To learn more, read the Information Site section below.
• Employee Forms & Documents - This employee-only list of over 100 files is a central repository for many items used across the university. This include the staff absence form, the petty cash reimbursement form, the faculty/staff/student handbooks and many more.
• UU Contact Directories & Pictures - This site provides a single point of access for employee and student contact/identity information. You can find a complete list of employee names, title/departments, university phone numbers, e-mail addresses, UU box numbers and office numbers. The department list includes building, area leader, UU box number, university phone numbers and fax numbers. Separate pictorial directories are provided for traditional undergraduate students, non-traditional undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty/staff/administration.

The Community menu will list resources that unite us a university.

• Buy/Sell - Employees may list goods or services they want to buy, sell or barter on a personal basis. This is similar to a resource that was available in the former Groupwise e-mail system employees used before we converted to the current e-mail system.
• Prayer - Employees may submit prayer requests here. All requests will be reviewed by the prayer ministry staff. As appropriate, the prayer requests will be posted for other employees to read. This is similar to a resource that was available in the former Groupwise e-mail system employees used before we converted to the current e-mail system..
• UU employee birthdays (2 months at a time), UU employee hiring anniversaries (2 months at a time) - Congratulate your co-workers on these significant days in their lives! Each employee-only list includes a link to the person's official university biography/picture page, department of employment, university phone number, e-mail address and office location.

Depending on how you are involved in the university, you may have access to several team sites.

Teams can have only employee members, a mix of employees and students, or mainly students (with an approved faculty/staff sponsor).

Note that team sites are not meant to substitute for LMS sites set up for university classes. (Union's current Learning Management System is Blackboard.)

To get to any of your team sites, on your constituency page (portal home page) click the My Team Sites tab, then click Organization. You will see a list of team sites for which you are a member.

To give you an idea of how a team site can be used, here are some existing team sites:

• Institutional Effectiveness & Research - provides sample reviews, announcements, event/deadline dates, etc to areas currently working on an Academic Program Review or a University Services Review; also has private space for IER administration
• Teacher Education Initiative - file sharing, discussion forums for two subgroups
• Digital Media Studies Society - faculty advisor information sharing and discussion with students
• Information Technology Committee - support for a standing university committee
• IT Student Lab Assistants - information sharing between staff supervisor and student workers

One example of an information site is Human Resources. Employees will find it listed on the portal's UU Resources menu. Initially, the HR site will contain all employee benefit information - health insurance, dental/vision coverage, retirement, etc. Future resources will include: internal forms and processes for hiring; staff development; university organizational charts.

Another example is the Academic Center's information site. Student and employees will find it listed on the portal's Academic Resources menu. This site will contain curriculum maps for every academic program's major/minor and emphasis/track/concentration. Each map represents a term-by-term list of courses that a student should take to complete a specific degree. In the past, these maps were directly available only to university employees.