1 Month Later and We've Got Great News!

So it has been a month since My.Centenary has gone live, IT has done some data-mining and we couldn’t be happier with the results we are seeing.

1. Currently, we have 70 administrators that are trained and posting daily on My.Centenary.
2. We are seeing an average of 3 – 4 new announcements per day with over 110 announcements since release date.
3. On 9/29 1507 different students logged into My.Centenary
4. Of the 2752 total students we have at Centenary only 86 students have never logged into the system!!  That means 99.7% of the student body is using My.Centenary to receive News & Announcements.
5. Increased resource activity.  – We’ve compared activity on the resource links on My.Centenary from this year and last year (when most of this information was held in Blackboard) and we have some outstanding results: (These results are for the month of August 23rd to September 23rd in both years)
   1. Vists to News and Announcements has gone from 1380 to 2171
   2. Visits to the Library Page has gone from 2275 to 3824
   3. Visits to the Library Information Databases has gone from 1484 to 2620
   4. Visits to the Financial Aid Page has gone from 604 to 1452
6. By 8:11 AM, on 9/30 there were already 241 students logged in!!!!!

Tips N' Tricks!  Don’t forget!

1.  You can make My.Centenary WORK FOR YOU!  Simply edit your settings and what announcements you see.  This is a great way to PERSONALIZE My.Centenary.  Just click “Change My Subscriptions”

 

2.   You can download any calendar event to your personal Outlook Calendar or Google Calendar!!!  If you sync these systems to your SmartPhone you can then receive reminders about an event on YOUR PHONE! 

**(For assistance with connecting your SmartPhone to your calendars visit the IT HelpDesk in the Seay Building.)