Using U@Penn
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Using U@Penn
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What
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- Access benefits information, paycheck history and view
or update your payroll profile.
- Conduct transactions through administrative applications.
- Find links to offices, services, and other Penn sites.
- Receive current news and announcements.
- View Penn calendars.
- Access web-based electronic mail.
- Personalize U@Penn to include your personal channel choices,
headline news sources, favorite web links, and more.
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The U@Penn toolbar keeps key resources available
when you switch tabs.
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Penn home The University of Pennsylvania's public face on the web.
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PennPortal PennPortal (the student portal)
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Webmail links
to a menu of webmail services by school or other affiliation.
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Directories Penn's
e-mail and phone directory of students, faculty, and staff, with directories
of personal Web pages and other references.
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Penn A-Z an
alphabetical index of links to the web sites of departments, offices,
student organizations and other named entities at Penn
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Switch View Lets you switch between portals. For example, if you're using U@Penn (the faculty and staff portal), you can switch to the PennPortal (the student portal). |
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U@Penn groups resources by the context
in which you use them. Tabs allow you to move from one context to another.
The General,
Business and Research tabs consolidate resources useful
to employees for their personal and work life.
Schools or Centers may create tabs that organize their web resources
for their employees' use. University Library resources are consolidated on the Libraries tab, available without login to all U@Penn users.
Your personal
tab is
yours to design. You can subscribe to channels from any U@Penn or PennPortal
source, collect links, and arrange them to suit yourself. Like webmail,
U@Penn lets you take your "favorites" with you, and use
them from any networked computer. U@Penn groups resources by the context
in which you use them. Tabs allow you to move from one context to another.
The General,
Business and Research tabs consolidate resources useful
to employees for their personal and work life.
Schools or Centers
may create tabs that organize their web resources
for their employees' use. University Library resources are consolidated on the Libraries tab, available without login to all U@Penn users.
Your personal
tab is
yours to design. You can subscribe to channels from any U@Penn or PennPortal
source, collect links, and arrange them to suit yourself. Like webmail,
U@Penn lets you take your "favorites" with you, and use
them from any networked computer.
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Web resources appear on the U@Penn tabs in the form of channels.
Each tab has its own set of channels. Channels contain the text, images,
and links to other PennWeb sites that pertain to the content or topic
of that channel.
Fixed channels:
The location and content of some channels are pre-determined by the people designing
a tab, and may not be removed or rearranged by users of the tab.
Optional channels:
Some channels are available for you to use, if you want to;
it's up to you. You can subscribe to these channels, assign them to any
tab, and move them around on the tab where they appear, to suit your
needs. (See "Adding and Rearranging Channels", below.)
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Special
channels:
There are different kinds of content in the various channels
you see on U@Penn. Some content comes from administrative,
or school organizations and points you to resources elsewhere on the
web. Some is supplied by automated feeds from external sources. Some
will contain headlines leading to more detailed information available
within
the portal,
just
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Click on the words "Log in to U@Penn," then enter
your PennKey and password.
If you need assistance, follow the link to "Password Help."
Once you log in, information in U@Penn may be automatically personalized
for you, such as a your Pay and Benefits information. If your school
or center has a tab, it may appear when you log in as well.
Logging in to U@Penn with your PennKey also
allows you to use someone services via single sign-on.
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U@Penn will be available to you
from any networked computer. Because logging on with your PennKey takes
you to personal as well as customized information, be sure you log
out of U@Penn when you are done. |
Adding
and arranging channels on a tab |
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Some information on U@Penn appears automatically when you log in. You
can choose other information from a variety of sources, depending on
what you would like to see on your customized portal. |
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- To add an optional channel, go to the tab you
want to modify, and then click on the "Add Stuff" tool
in the upper right of the portal window.
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That will take you to an
editing tool within the portal where you will see a graphical description
of your tab's content, a column with Channel Categories,
and a column showing channels in the categories. First choose a
category. In
this example, the category being selected is "Library and Research."
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Next choose from that category the channel that you
want to put into your custom portal. Note that you can decide which column to
place the channel on the tab. In this example, the channel "Franklin
Catalog" is
being selected, and added to Column 3:
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You can also use the "Add Stuff" tool
to rearrange channels on a tab, and/or remove optional channels.
To remove a channel from the tab, click on [X] next to the
channel in the graphical display at the top of the Choose Content
and/or Change Layout tool window. Channels that are required for
the tab cannot be deleted. Arrows next to channel
in the display allow you to move the channel within a column (up
or down), or to a different column on the tab (right or left).
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Your changes will take effect immediately; click
on the tab name to see the results.
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Adding your own personal tab |
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Adding a link to My Links |
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A special channel called "My Links" appears on the General tab
and can be customized when you log in. Think of this as a kind
of portable list of favorites -- "bookmarks" that travel
with you anywhere you can use U@Penn.
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To add your own custom
link, simply type in whatever you want to name it, then enter the url,
and click on "Add This Link"
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Since "My Links" is
a channel, you can also add it to any tab in your portal. It's the
same channel, no matter where you place it in your portal, so the content
of "My Links" will remain the same.
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