Web Development
The ETC provides numerous Web Development services to academic departments and faculty. The ETC provides support and development assistance for all academic program websites, as well as support for the Rowdy academic computing environment.
Web Development Services
- Consulting
- Requirements Gathering
- Analysis & Design
- Multimedia & Streaming Media
- E-Commerce Solutions
- Content Support
- Style Guides and Templates
- Technical Specifications
- Implementation
- Testing
- Deployment
- Various Levels of Maintenance and Support
- Site Analytics
- Web Application Development
- Provide a set of standard web applications for all official departments to utilize (forms, counters, date & time stamps, SSI templates, etc.)
Examples
- College Admissions Application
- College Event Calendar
- On-Line Student Government Elections
- MDL Time Tracking System
- EEO Job Posting System
- Training Reservation System
- OSP Grant System
- Student Lab Reservation System
Web Application Development
Educational Technology Center provides project planning, analysis, design, development and maintenance of applications supporting teaching and learning both online and in the classroom.
The Educational Technology Center provides support throughout the development process for applications. We also provide existing applications that have been built for multiple uses.
Here are some examples of current applications in use at Metro State
- Metro State Events Calendar (MetroCal)
- Campus Faculty/Staff Directory
- Testing and Assessment Reservation System
- Integration applications to allow sign-on using MetroConnect username/password to various systems
- Smartthinking - online tutoring
- iTunesU - coming this fall
- Administration of various systems to support e-learning
- Blackboard Vista - Learning Management System
- Wimba - online collaboration
Web Administration & Hosting
- Administer and support a dozen web server instances
- Banner Web development, maintenance, and support
- 24/7 monitoring of all Web Servers to minimize downtime
- Perform software upgrades and configurations
- Provide technical support for the creation, transfer, and maintenance of administrative web pages
- Monthly web log analysis and reporting
- SSL support
- JSP Application Development
- Flash Application Development
- Server Side Includes (SSI)
- Password/IP Access Control
- Streaming Media Capabilities

