Clayton campus car park locator

Release 7.0

If you’ve ever driven around Clayton campus trying to find a car park, you’ll love this.

We’ve launched a new feature in the Travel and parking tile to help you find an available car park near you.

This new feature will allow you to see live feeds from sensors located in each car park across the Clayton campus. You’ll be able to search and find a car park to suit your permit type or locate metered parking. Results will show how many car parks are currently available in each of the car parks across campus. This will save you time and hassle when you’re on your way to work or class.

As this is a new feature we’re particularly interested in your feedback, please let us know what you think using the feedback link.

my.monash gets more personal

Release 7.0

We’re excited to release a new ‘dashboard’ feature to my.monash for Australian students and staff. The dashboard will allow us to surface timely, personalised content and call to action items from a variety of sources.

The dashboard has the following elements which we’ll build on over the coming months:

Notices

• Notices for students  - change of location, was previously in its own tile
• News for staff - life cycle tile will move under here and we’ve added a featured news item

Service interruption feed

• Will only appear under notices in the event of a major service interruption.

Library actions (students only for now)

• Displays all your library notifications for example hold requests, overdue books or outstanding fines to better help you manage your library interactions.

Favourite links

• You can now add up-to four links to my.monash and save them as your favourites for easy access every day.
• Students, to get you started we’ve added links to Monash home and Monash Search. You can keep these links or change them for anything you like. That’s right, they don’t have to be Monash links.

More content for international students

Release 7.0

We’re happy to advise that we’ve created some new tiles specifically for our international students.

1. International student tile - is now available to all international students studying in Australia. This provides quick access to content, resources and support specifically for international students.
2. Life cycle tile – for international students in their first semester. This tile will display dynamic content about important events and activities that will help you settle into university. For example, it will provide information about orientation activities, your health cover, English language programs, visa and accommodation.

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.