The Administration site is used by the staff to update the data that drives all of our websites. The site began simply as a way to add users to a staff page, and manage workshops on the OSCR website in 2004. It quickly grew in scope as resources, schedules, teams, gear and many other features were added.
In 2008 the Office of Student Computing Resources was brought into UITS. At that point our web development team was moved from OSCR into UITS. Many of the features of the OSCR website were expanded upon to drive features of the UITS and the 24/7 IT Support Center websites.
The website has done very well scaling from a department with about 20 full time employees and 80 student employees, to a department with over 300 employees.
The workshops registration system is also built on the reservation system. New reservations can be of many different types, workshops being one of them.
The workshop registration system ties into the resource system so that workshops can be scheduled in various labs and classrooms. Conflicts are detected and communicated to those making reservations.