Delivering an enhanced user interface

Release 7.0

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

We’ve grouped together tiles of the same colour and ordered them alphabetically. The exception, are the five most used tiles which appear at the top.

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.

Library hold notifications in my.monash

Release 6.0

From this week onward Australian students and staff will receive alerts when your library hold request is ready for pick-up. If you’ve downloaded the mobile App, you’ll get a notification on your phone.

Students, you'll also see an 'Alerts' tile on your desktop, with a badge showing the number of unread alerts. If you started this semester, you will have already been receiving alerts. Now that the tile is visible to all students, we’ll start to use this channel to send alerts to all students about activities coming up in the student calendar.

Shop.Monash joins my.monash

Release 6.0

Australian students and staff can now use Shop.Monash to shop online for Monash products and services.

Login to your new dashboard to:

• buy merchandise
• shop for some course equipment
• sign-up for your next field trip
• book and pay for a conference or workshop
• view your orders
• edit your preferences
• create a wish list and more...

Your academic record is now in my.monash

Release 6.0

This will give you quick and easy access to your unofficial academic transcript (previously only available in WES).

You’ll be able to see your results for the units you’ve completed for all the courses you’ve been enrolled in. It also provides a link to buy an official academic transcript.

Access to Safer Community Unit through the M-Safe tile

Release 6

After reviewing tile usage stats, we’ve decided to consolidate the Safer Community link into the M-Safe tile. If you’d like to contact the Safer Community Unit, you’ll find a link to their site on the Report problem behaviour page in the M-Safe tile.

As a result, the Services and support tile will now link directly to the Current students web page (this is where 95% of the traffic was going).

Students, your next class is…

Release 6.0

We’ve bubbled up your timetable data so you can now see your next class without having to open the tile.

To see your full timetable, click to open the tile.

OHS gets its own tile

Release 6.0

In response to a number of requests, Australian staff will notice that OHS now has its own tile.

The OHS tile provides links to:

• SARAH
• A-Z of health and safety
• OHS consultants/advisors/reps
• OHS induction.

As a result of the new OHS tile, we've made a few changes to the HR tile. 

• Removed SARAH
• Changed the icon to a person.