Is it myCampus or yours?
Arielle Thomas
Issue date: 11/5/09 Section: Campus News
Bridgewater State College recently blocked a website called CampusLIVE, a portal that essentially allows students to access different aspects of the college resources that may interest them, such as email, news, and entertainment events. Many students are unsure as to why this helpful portal that seems to serve college students in so many ways is being rejected as a credible site.
Chandraguputa Gudena, the Deputy Chief Officer of Information Technology at Bridgewater State College explained that the college decided to take action when it began receiving solicited information.
"Residence Life came to us when they found out that the CampusLIVE Website was handing out business card sized advertisements, claiming that they were the official campus website," Gudena said.
In an addition, the CampusLIVE website was creating confusion among students because they were not sure which website was the college's official online host.
"There was too much confusion with the two websites [myCampus and CampusLIVE]," he said. "Students would come to me not knowing which the official website was."
Boris Revsin, the Co-founder of the CampusLIVE website said, "Bridgewater disabled access to CampusLIVE, saying we were 'pretending to be officially sanctioned by the university' - they won't return our emails now. We had over 1,000 Bridgewater students using the site daily and now they can't access it because [the] administration is worried they would use our portal instead of theirs."
CampusLIVE currently serves over 100 schools in the United States. It's the one-stop-shop for college students. Not only can they access their collegiate resources, but links to Facebook, local restaurants and entertainment are available.
They maintain that they sent out a message to students on campus letting them know that the CampusLIVE team would be distributing materials about their website on campus.
Chandraguputa Gudena, the Deputy Chief Officer of Information Technology at Bridgewater State College explained that the college decided to take action when it began receiving solicited information.
"Residence Life came to us when they found out that the CampusLIVE Website was handing out business card sized advertisements, claiming that they were the official campus website," Gudena said.
In an addition, the CampusLIVE website was creating confusion among students because they were not sure which website was the college's official online host.
"There was too much confusion with the two websites [myCampus and CampusLIVE]," he said. "Students would come to me not knowing which the official website was."
Boris Revsin, the Co-founder of the CampusLIVE website said, "Bridgewater disabled access to CampusLIVE, saying we were 'pretending to be officially sanctioned by the university' - they won't return our emails now. We had over 1,000 Bridgewater students using the site daily and now they can't access it because [the] administration is worried they would use our portal instead of theirs."
CampusLIVE currently serves over 100 schools in the United States. It's the one-stop-shop for college students. Not only can they access their collegiate resources, but links to Facebook, local restaurants and entertainment are available.
They maintain that they sent out a message to students on campus letting them know that the CampusLIVE team would be distributing materials about their website on campus.
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Nick
posted 11/05/09 @ 3:46 PM EST
As far as I can understand, CampusLIVE developed their portal for BSC without ever consulting with BSC. Then they launched it under the guise that they are an officially sanctioned and supported service of BSC. (Continued…)
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