The MyCC Portal navigation includes: Tab navigation, the Sidebar navigation area, Breadcrumb navigation, Portlet navigation, and Page Footer navigation.
The Main Banner – The entire top portion of the main MyCC portal will display Cambridge College’s logo. By default, the logo links back to the main portal home page.
The Logon, Personal Info, Logout bar – This bar provides these basic features:
Allows you to logon MyCC Portal
Access your personal information
Logout MyCC Portal
The Tabs Navigation - The most basic information structure of the site uses tab navigation. The tab is a visual metaphor for a top-level context or section of the portal. Each tab section has a “main page,” and may also have any number of additional pages and /or sub-contexts within it. Clicking on a tab leads to the default page of that tab section if you have access to it.
The Breadcrumbs - The MyCC Portal navigation uses a location breadcrumb trail. This is a textual representation of the user’s location within the site’s structure, e.g. Home > Admissions > Apply for Admission. This representation of information allows user to link to locations in the Portal along a continuum of sequential order. The Breadcrumbs are located in a bar directly beneath the tabs, and above the page title.
Tips: All the “breadcrumbs” in the path are links.
The Portlet Links – These are shortcut to the portlets of the current page you are viewing.
The Portlets - Before logging into MyCC, you should be familiar with the definition of a “portlet.” Each category of information is contained in a window called a portlet, and the MyCC portal is comprised of many portlets. Portlets are much like windows seen on a Microsoft Windows based personal computer. Like windows on a PC, portlet windows can be minimized and maximized.
For example, the Homepage page (see figure) contains several “portlets” indicated by the light blue title bars on the page (i.e., Welcome to MyCC, Events at Cambridge College, Campus Announcement, etc.). Portlets can be customized (repositioned or removed) based on each user’s needs and preferences.
The Quicklinks - The quick-links section of the sidebar is for navigation on a global level and contains shortcuts to some of the more personalized content areas of the portal. This section of the sidebar will be visible and consistent (i.e. the same) on all pages of the portal. The Quick Links section is broken down into 2 sub-sections, separated by a line or a horizontal rule.
Personal Links - The first section in Quick Links contains links to My Courses, My Pages, and My Groups. These links are contained within expanding/ collapsible menus, which are opened & closed by clicking on the menu name or clicking the toggling “+/-“ icon. The My Courses menu contains links to the user’s current courses (which are pages in the course section). The My Pages menu contains links to, all of the user’s custom defined “Home Pages” including the main user customized home page. All these pages are located in the My Pages section. The My Groups menu links to any campus groups in which the user is a member. These Campus Groups pages exist within the Campus Life tab. If a user is not enrolled in any courses, has no personal pages, and/or is not a member of any campus groups, then these menus will not appear in the sidebar.
Cambridge College Defined Links - The second navigation area within Quick Links is a list of links which may be defined by Cambridge College level administrator in the Site Admin area. As the Quick Links section of the sidebar is visible on all pages in the portal, these should be general links that the university wants to “push.”