Web Development and Applications

The IWE Framework project focuses on facilitating application development across the UCLA campus by providing services and tools available to all developers in order to create consistency throughout applications within the MyUCLA umbrella hassle-free. The MyUCLA web portal houses many applications for virtually every type of campus affiliate, justifying a need for a centralized utility to handle the diversity in functionality and user base.

Software as a Service is the new normal for many of us due to cost, staffing and speed of delivery.  There is a perception that SaaS means no IT is needed.  In reality IT is critical for most SaaS implementations to be successful.  IT’s role is more focused on business analysis, integration, authentication, security and vendor management.  This presentation will focus on key areas where IT can provide value to the organization by partnering on SaaS deployments  including lessons learned and key IT skills for the future.    

How do you build a complex library of design patterns and styles that are compliant, accessible, responsive, and can be used across platforms and content management systems? All that while making sure it adheres to University guidelines and Web standards best practices that can grow with your brand as you develop more use cases?

ScoreShare is a tool that provides academic advisors with student assignment performance data to better inform their decision-making processes and streamline advising sessions. We (UCI’s Academic Web Technologies team) partnered with academic advising units around campus to design and pilot ScoreShare in 2017.

In this session, we will share our experience building a web application that relies on assignment and grade data from Canvas, as well as the challenges in combining this with data from our legacy learning management system.

Want to learn more about how electronic signature and forms automation are being used to streamline processes across UC?

DocuSign has been vetted UC-wide and is being used in one way or another at all UC locations.  The broad range of current and potential use cases is fascinating and reflects the diverse challenges we all face.

Joint session with UCD and UCI presenting/discussing their innovation initiatives.  More details to be updated here soon.

Do you want to help grow your organization's cultural values of innovation, experimentation, creativity and “success thru failure”?

Do you want to create a scalable and sustainable innovation initiative to enable broader innovation across your organization?

Well so do we!

Let's say that your pool of licenses won't stretch across your fleet. Let's say that the vendor requires a username and password for each seat. How do you handle the provisioning of vendor specific accounts? How can you keep track of who needs software and who suddenly no longer does? Let's face it, serialized software could soon become a thing of the past.

At the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management we have lots of spreadsheets.   We also have lots of duplicated data.   We have sheets for people, offices,  groupings of people, management of our space.  We have simulated databases in our web site.    We've started a journey to improve operational efficiency of our procedures and to make our data easier to access.   We are using Airtable, a company that offers a SAAS product that can magically turn spreadsheets into databases.   Data that has been locked in an excel spreadsheet on our file server, can now serve all or parts of

Higher education needs to graduate students on time. Some benefits include: decreasing the student's cost of education and more space for new students. 

To achieve this, one component includes helping students understand what their schedules might look like for the degree they are considering. Another component is giving academic staff visibility on course demand so they can plan appropriately.

Come see how the UCCSC 2018 Mobile Application was developed! Talk to include technical details about platform, language, and tools used.