Our goal is to continually improve the my.monash experience; delivering a consistent, effective experience and design that works across platforms and devices. One of the ways we do this is to be responsive to user feedback.
We recently invited all students and staff to vote on their preferred interface from three options. We received over 3,000 votes. And today, we’re launching a new interface which delivers a:
- Clean, minimalist design with an air of simplicity that promotes clarity of form, function and message.
- Concise and clear visual communication, user-centric functionality and ease of navigation supporting effective interactions with our services and systems.
Tile colours
Again, based on your feedback, and in alignment with the Monash brand and web accessibility guidelines, we’ve categorised the tile colours as follows:- Blue – core admin functions related to productivity
- Purple – study and academic materials
- Green – campus related experiences
- Pink – support services or professional development related
- Red/Orange – announcements, notices and news
Action-orientated format
You’ll also notice that we’ve made some changes to the second level menus. Based on analytics and user focus group feedback, we've rationalised the links and made them action-orientated. For example, I want to… Find a computer lab.Tile changes
Depending on your view (student or staff), you’ll notice some tile changes:- Bookings (AU staff only) – moved to Campus Life tile.
- Campus Life / On Campus – consolidated tile created for students and staff.
- Expenses & purchasing – shop.monash and M-Pass moved to Campus Life.
- Google Apps – removed as the most frequently used apps already have their own tiles.
- Google Drive – new to staff.
- Help (AU staff only) – removed and content moved to other more meaningful tiles.
- IT Support – replaces IT Service Announcements and now includes a few other IT related links.
- Lectures online – removed as these can now be accessed directly in Moodle.
- M-Safe – added to desktop view.
- Research – Research services and Research Storage Options removed upon request from business area.
- Search – removed. Users expressed confusion over it and the internal my.monash search.
- Staff Directory – added to desktop view.
- Teaching & learning – Locate a computer lab moved Campus Life tile.
- Tools – replaces Service Admin Tools, and now includes building maintenance work requests.
- Welcome tile – removed for AU only to free up space for an upcoming dashboard.
If you'd like to provide feedback on the new user interface,
please use the feedback bubble in my.monash.
