| Spectrum Channel Listing |
| New channels will be added virtually every day during the August and September 2005. Check back here often to see what new channel offerings are available. If you have a suggestion for a new channel that you don't see in our list, use the 'Make suggestion/comment' link in the 'Spectrum Channel Information' channel. |
| Name | Description | Status |
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| Accept/Decline Financial Aid | A student channel with contact information for financial aid and a link to TIGERWEB. | Available |
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| American Art | An academic journal found under the News/Journals category. | Available |
| American Journal of Education | An academic journal found under the News/Journals category. | Available |
| Approval Alerts | Approval alerts for Spectrum finance system users. | Available |
|   | Indicates whether the user has any pending requisitons and purchase orders to approve, and provides a direct link to the finance system approval screens. (Note: Provided by Sungard as part of the Luminis Channels for Banner set.) |   |
| Ask TOM | Find answers to questions about the U of M, or ask a question and receive an answer from TOM. | Available |
| Banner INB | Internet Native Banner (INB) opens in a separate browser window. |
Available |
|   | Banner INB is intended to be a tool used more by the University's administrative offices and "power users". Most people will access Self Service Banner. |
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| Banner Reference Information | Links to information to assist the Banner user including reference materials/links and training opportunities. |
Available |
|   | Channel includes a links to the Banner Bookshelf, a comprehensive set of reference guides (PDF format) documenting all of the Banner systems, the FOAPAL lookup website, and user training sessions being offered on campus. |
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| Banner Self-Service | Direct links to a user's Banner Self Service screens. |
Available |
|   | The Banner Self Service channel provides an expandable listing of links to each of the SSB tabs that a user has rights to. Everyone will have a 'Personal Information' tab. Other tabs will be dependent on other roles held at the U of M. (Note: Provided by Sungard as part of the Luminis Channels for Banner set.) |
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| Bookmarks | Personal links can be defined in this channel. It is like 'Favorites' in Internet Explorer. | Available |
| Campus Announcements | Announcements targeted for all faculty, student and staff. |
Available |
|   | Authorized U of M staff can post messages that will appear in the Campus Announcement channel. |
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| Campus Scene | An interesting U of M photo or scene with an optional caption. | Available |
|   | Current 'Campus Scene' is static for several days. In August 2005, the channel photo will be randomized from a set of photos and will change each time the channel is displayed. |   |
| Campus Work Requests | Links to work request web sites including ITD Helpdesk, Telecommunications, and Physical Plant. |
Available |
| Carpool Information | Register your interest in participating in a carpool, or view a listing of current carpooling opportunities. | Available |
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| College Sports News from USA Today | A channel for college sports news available under the News/Sports category. | Available |
| Commercial Appeal Local News | This channel delivers local news from the Commercial Appeal. It is found under the News/Local category. | Available |
|   | The channel is free but registration is required. |   |
| Commerical Appeal Tiger News | A news feed on Tiger Sports from the Commercial Appeal in the News/Sports category | Available |
|   | A news feed on Tiger Sports from the Commercial Appeal in the News/Sports category |   |
| Comparative Education Review | An academic journal found under the News/Journals category. | Available |
| Critical Inquiry | An academic journal found under the News/Journals category. | Available |
| Current Phase of the Moon | Displays an image and description of the current phase of the moon. This channel is located in the Other category. |
Available |
| Daily Business Carton | A daily cartoon by Ted Goff located in the Entertainment category. |
Available |
| Daily Helmsman | Headlines from the Daily Helmsman, the U of M student newspaper. |
Available |
|   | Helmsman headlines are supplied via an RSS (Rich Site Summary) feed. |
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| e~Print | Access the university's e~Print system. This channel is available under the Tools/Resources category. |
Available |
|   | Requires prior authorization to access the e~Print system. |
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| eCourseware | Access to eCourseware, online course management system that is replacing WebCT for Fall 2007. | Available |
|   | Access to eCourseware, online course management system that is replacing WebCT for Fall 2007. |   |
| Education News from CNN | A channel with education news available under the News/Academic category. |
Available |
| eLearn | Links to online course management systems including eCourseware (Desire2Learn) and WebCT. | Available |
|   | Links to online course management systems including eCourseware (Desire2Learn) and WebCT. |   |
| Employee Self-Service | Displays the login to the Employee Self-Service site. This channel can be found under the Tools/Resources category and is available to faculty and staff only. | Available |
| Enrollment Policies | A student channel with links to pages with information for undergraduate and graduate enrollment policies. This channel is located under the Student category. |
Available |
| eNuze - Unusual News | A news channel with strange story items. This channel is located under the News category. |
Available |
| ERP Document Repository on UMDrive | A link to the repository of documents for the ERP implementation. This channel is located under the Other category and is available to ERP team members. |
Available |
| ERP Finance - COA maintenance example | An example of the chart of accounts maintenance from the University of New Mexico. |
Available |
|   | This channel is under the Other category and is available to ERP team members. |   |
| ERP Finance documents on UMDrive | Repository of finance related ERP documents. This channel is available under the Other category and is available to ERP team members. | Available |
| ERP Portal Team Charter | Charter of the University of Memphis Portal Team. This channel is under the Other category and is available to ERP team members. | Available |
| Ethics | An academic journal found under the News/Journals category. |
Available |
| Expert List | U of M Experts and Speakers List | Available |
| Faculty CV | Single sign-on (SSO) access to the Faculty CV application. |
Available |
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| Faculty SIRS Monitor | Allows faculty to view the number of students who have completed SIRS evaluation forms. Available under the Faculty/Staff category. | Available |
| Fall 2007 Registration | Information related to fall 2007 semester registration. |
Available |
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| Fees, Payments, & Refunds | Displays links to check account balances and Bursar contact information. This channel is available under the Student category. |
Available |
| FERPA | Single sign-on (SSO) access to FERPA tutorial and information about the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. |
Available |
|   | Single sign-on (SSO) access to FERPA tutorial and information about the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. |   |
| Finance Alerts Grants | Provides information for Principal Investigators (PIs) about grants that are due to end in a specified number of days. |
Available |
|   | Principle Investigators can change the user defined number of days before a grant expires that the notification should appear. Prior to the expiration time, the message 'No Grants are scheduled to end in selected time.' will be displayed. (Note: Provided by Sungard as part of the Luminis Channels for Banner set.) |
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| Financial Advisor | A bar chart summary of accounts for Spectrum finance system users. | Available |
|   | Provides summary information for up to five accounts, and provides easy access to the Banner finance system screen to manage the accounts. |   |
| Financial Aid Office | Contact information for the Financial Aid Office with links to their web site and important dates. This channel is available under the Student category. |
Available |
| Financial Bookmarks | A channel with links to government sites that are helpful when applying for financial aid. This channel is available under the Student category. |
Available |
| First Science Information | First Science website contains science articles on various categories. This channel is available under the News/Academic category. |
Available |
| Gartner | Single sign-on (SSO) access to Gartner research website. | Available |
|   | Gartner, Inc. is a leading provider of research and analysis on the global IT industry. The company's web site contains information to help clients make informed technology and business decisions by providing in-depth analysis and actionable advice on virtually all aspects of technology. |   |
| Group Announcements | Announcements targeted for members of a specific U of M group. | Available |
|   | Group Announcements can be sent to all individuals in a certain U of M role (i.e. faculty, student, employee) or group. Provides the first few lines of any personal announcement that has been sent to a user based upon attributes like role, major, or enrolled course and click-throughs to the expanded page of all group announcements that the user has.(Note: Group Announcements is a renaming of the Personal Announcements channel supplied by the portal vendor). |
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| Group Bookmarks | Enhanced bookmark channel with special features for sharing a set of bookmarks with a group. | Available |
|   | This enhanced channel provides the ability for layout owners to place a Bookmarks channel on a layout and populate it with links that all users should see. When placed on a layout, the functions for adding and editing links are only available to the layout owner. These functions are removed for users who are members of the layout. Group Bookmarks also supports multiple instances so that users can place their own bookmark channels on different tabs and maintain separate sets of links within each. Finally, Group Bookmarks also provides an administrative channel, DefaultsEditor, that allows institutions to pre-populate links that all users should see by default when they first subscribe to an instance of the Group Bookmarks channel. Note: Delivered from SCT as "Bookmarks Plus" |
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| Group Leader Activity Channel | Allows a Group Studio group leader to quickly view information about a group that he/she manages. | Available (New) |
|   | Allows a Group Studio group leader to quickly view information about a group that he/she manages. |   |
| Group Studio Activity Channel | Allows each person to quickly view summary information from Group Studio groups that he/she is a member of. |
Available (New) |
|   | Allows each person to quickly view summary information from Group Studio groups that he/she is a member of. |   |
| Happy Birthday! | This week's staff and faculty birthdays. | Available |
|   | The current day's birthdays are highlighted at the top, and all birthdays for the entire week (Sunday - Saturday) are listed. |   |
| Harvard Business School Working Knowledge | A channel with news from Harvard Business School. This channel is available from the News/Academic category. |
Available |
| Health and Science News from NPR | A news channel with Science and Health news, available under the News/Technology category. | Available |
| Important Dates | A channel with links to semester dates and academic calendar information. This channel is found under the Student category. |
Available |
| Isis | An academic journal found under the News/Journals category. |
Available |
| ITIR - Open Impact Reports | Summary of currently open IT Impact Reports (ITIRs), and links to management site, available from the News or Other categories. |
Available |
| Job Announcements | University of Memphis Job Announcements. | Available |
| Law and Social Inquiry | An academic journal found under the News/Journals category. |
Available |
| Media and Journalism Ethics News | A channel with news about journalism available under the News/Academic category. |
Available |
| Modern Philosophy | An academic journal found under the News/Journals category. |
Available |
| My Banner | Provides direct links to the forms selected by the user in the Banner INB system. | Available |
|   | Expandable/collapsable list of the user's individually selected Banner INB forms. The My Banner portal channel mirrors the users 'My Banner' folder maintained in Banner INB. (Note: Provided by Sungard as part of the Luminis Channels for Banner set.) |   |
| My Current Schedule | Displays a student's current schedule, available under the Student category. |
Available |
| My Future | Links to graduation and career services are available in a channel under the Student category. |
Available |
| My Headlines | A channel that delivers current headlines available under the News category. |
Available |
| My Reports | View completed reports generated by the Banner system. |
Available |
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| NanoFocus | A channel with nanotechnology news available under the News/Academic category. |
Available |
| NASA Earth Observatory | A channel with news from NASA available under the News/Technology category. |
Available |
| National Association for Business Economics | A channel with business and economic news available under the News/Journals category. |
Available |
| Nature podcasts | Nature journal weekly audio podcasts | Available |
|   | Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science. The Nature Podcast is a free weekly audio show highlighting content from each issue, and interviews with the scientists creating the data. |   |
| New York Times | National news from the New York Times is found in the News/National category. |
Available |
| NPR - All Things Considered | Headline stories from NPR "All Things Considered" broadcasts |
Available |
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| NPR - Morning Edition | Stories from NPR's "Morning Edition" |
Available |
| On-Campus Student Employment | Quick links to help students with on-campus employment opportunities. |
Available |
| Open IT Impact Reports | A list of currently open Information Technology Impact Reports (ITIRS). | Available |
|   | ITIRs are notices of current and/or scheduled computer, Internet and telecommunications service disruptions. |   |
| PCWorld News | A channel with computer news available under the News/Technology category. |
Available |
| Podcast Central | Single sign-on (SSO) access to Podcast Central web application | Available |
|   | Single sign-on (SSO) access to Podcast Central web application |   |
| Portal FAQ and Definition | Link to "My University Portal" FAQ. This channel is available to the Portal Team under the Other category. |
Available |
| Portal Implementation Examples | Links to various higher education portal implementations with an emphasis on Luminis portals, available to the Portal Team under the Other category. |
Available |
| Portal Implementation References | Links to miscellaneous portal implementation references. This channel is available under the Other category. |
Available |
| Portal Survey Results | Survey results from the 5/2005 Portal survey. This channel is available to ERP groups from the Other category. |
Available |
| Project Gutenberg | A channel with links to the latest books released from Project Gutenberg, available from the Entertainment category. |
Available |
| Project Spectrum Activity Calendar Maintenance | Meetings, training sessions and events scheduled for Project Spectrum available to the ERP Implementation group from the Tools/Resources. | Available |
| Project Spectrum Issue Tracker | Decision, issue and task tracking application for UofM Project Spectrum, available to ERP groups under the Tools/Resources category. |
Available |
| Project Spectrum Links | Quick links to Project Spectrum web sites available to university staff under the Tools/Resources category. |
Available |
| Project Spectrum Web Site | Home page for UofM Project Spectrum, the SCT Banner 7.0 implementation available from the Other category. |
Available |
| Quick Links | A list of frequently needed links for students, available under the Students category. |
Available |
| Registrar | Contact information for the Registrar's Office with links to their web site. This channel is available under the Student category. |
Available |
| Req's and PO's | Quick access to requisition and purchase information in the Spectrum finance system. | Available |
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| Safety Information | Links to U of M safety information websites. | Available |
| Schedule Planning | A channel with links students frequently need to plan their schedule, available under the Student category. |
Available |
| Scholarship Office | Contact information for the Scholarship Office with links to their web site. This channel is available under the Student category. |
Available |
| Science Friday podcasts | Science Friday podcast links from NPR's "Talk of the Nation". |
Available |
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| Search the University of Memphis | Search for people and webpages at the University of Memphis, available under the Tools/Resources category. |
Available |
| Signs | An academic journal found under the News/Journals category. |
Available |
| SIRS Reports | View SIRS Reports from the Spectrum portal. | Available |
| Spectrum Channel Information | A list of some new an future Spectrum channels, and links to the complete channel list and a suggestion/comment screen. | Available |
| Sports News from SI.com | A channel with sports news available under the News/Sports category. |
Available |
| Staff Links | A list of frequently needed links for university employees, available under the Faculty/Staff category |
Available |
| Sticky Note | A place to save a brief note or "To Do" list. | Available |
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| The American Naturalist | An academic journal found under the News/Journals category. |
Available |
| The Astrophysical Journal | An academic journal found under the News/Journals category. |
Available |
| The Library Quarterly | An academic journal found under the News/Journals category. |
Available |
| Tiger Pride | View a randomized point of pride factoid about the U of M. | Available |
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| TIGERWEB | Links TIGERWEB and information pages, available under the Student category. |
Available |
| Time Approval | Links for Web Time Entry submissions for designated approvers. |
Available |
|   | Channel provides link to Web Time Entry time approval screens for designated employees. (Note: Provided by Sungard as part of the Luminis Channels for Banner set.) |
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| Time/Leave Reporting | Access to Web Time Entry screens. |
Available |
|   | Channel provides navigation links to the Web Time Entry screens for both bi-weekly and monthly paid employees. Bi-weely employees complete a time sheet for each workday, and monthly employees complete a leave report. |
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| Today in History | Births, deaths and events on this day in years past, available from the News category. |
Available |
| Today's Project Spectrum Activities | Project Spectrum training sessions, team meetings, and general activities scheduled for today, available from the News category. | Available |
| Tuition Calculator | Estimates tuition for course loads by semester. This channel is available under the Student category. |
Available |
| Tutorial | A channel with a tutorial on how to use the portal, available under the Tools/Resources/Luminis category. |
Available |
| U of M Organizational Charts | Organizational charts for the University of Memphis, available from the Other category. |
Available |
| U of M Search | Search for a U of M person or web page. | Available |
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| U of M Website Administration Utilities | Utilities to administer the A-Z list and Tiger Pride information databases, available to university web masters under the Tools/Resources category. |
Available |
| U.S. News from CNN | A channel with U.S. news available under the News/National category. |
Available |
| UMdrive | Single sign-on (SSO) access to UMdrive. |
Available (New) |
|   | Single sign-on (SSO) access to UMdrive. |
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| UMWiki | UMWiki access and new account request. |
Available |
|   | UMWiki access and new account request. |   |
| Weather | Current weather conditions in Memphis. | Available |
| Wired News | A channel with computer news available under the News/Technology category. |
Available |
| Word of the Day | Provides a new word and definition each day, with a search function to look up other words. | Available |
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| World News from CNN | A channel with international news available under the News/World category. |
Available |
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