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300 Fore Street, Portland
The opening of the new 300 Fore Street building located in downtown Portland took place in January and is the home of several University partners including University of Maine School of Law, University of Maine Graduate and Professional Center, University of Maine Portland Gateway and the University of Maine Graduate School of Business. The classroom and audiovisual technology for the project totaling roughly $775,000 includes seven classrooms and seminar spaces, nine conference rooms and digital signage.
The building includes:
- Wireless screen sharing devices, ScreenBeam, allowing faculty and students to display content from laptops and mobile devices through Miracast or Airplay.
- All classrooms, conference rooms and seminar spaces are equipped with cameras, microphones and a digital audio mixer to provide both presentation and web conferencing capabilities
- One of the classrooms includes the ability to split and combine to become one larger classroom or two separate classrooms
Due to unprecedented manufacturing and supply chain issues caused by the COVID pandemic and other global events, the equipment and systems have not been fully installed. The Classroom Technology team worked closely with the stakeholders and the vendors to accommodate the functional needs for the Spring semester. The audiovisual/classroom technology systems will be fully installed and operational during the Summer.
(Content for this article was provided by Angela Cook, Director of Academic Technology)
Knowledge Management
Have an IT Question or Issue?
itsupport.maine.edu may have your answers!
The IT Team has been working over the past few years to build a one-stop portal to answer questions and provide access to our services. The main page at itsupport.maine.edu will quickly allow you to search for answers or find contact information if you need to reach out to us.
Tips & Tricks
- Login – anyone with an active maine.edu account can login (Sign In link in the upper right corner). Logging in allows you to:
- See ALL articles that you have permission to see such as articles specific to your campus or job role
- Add articles to your personal list of Favorites for quick access
- Search
- The top header search will show results from both Knowledge base articles and Service Catalog information – by selecting one from the drop down, you may limit the results.
Help us make the site even better!
- The IT Knowledge base (KB) is updated nearly every day based on YOUR questions and feedback. If you use a KB article, please provide feedback. At the bottom of each article, answer the question, “Was this helpful?” and add your comments. We review each feedback entry and make changes that make the KB even better.
- If you have a question or an issue that is not answered in the KB, contact the IT Help Desk at itsupport.maine.edu We will answer your question or resolve your issue AND add to the KB if it will help others in the future.
(Content for this article was provided by the Knowledge Management Core Implementation Team)
Managed Print Services
During the spring semester, new Xerox Multifunction devices will be installed throughout the University of Maine System along with new software to better manage printing, copying, scanning and faxing.
As of April 1, Xerox devices have been deployed at UMF, UMPI, UMFK and the facility at 300 Fore Street that serves MaineLaw, Maine Business School and others. To date, 872 users have printed or copied over 230,000 pages . This represents about 20% of the total devices planned for our campuses. Other locations will see new devices arriving between now and June.
Program Highlights
- Find-Me Printing with Secure Release
- Send a print job whenever, from wherever you want and don’t worry about “hurrying” to get to the printer. Your job will only print when you are at the printer and ready to pick it up. It won’t be sitting in a pile of papers for anyone to see!
- Access to more devices and more features
- Is the printer that you normally use really busy? No problem – you can visit a printer on another floor or in another office to print your jobs.
- Does the printer nearest you not have a stapler or color or handle 11×17 paper? No problem – you can use one that has the needed features for that special print job.
- 92% of the Xerox devices are color capable (compared to 20% of the older devices)
- Better for the environment!
- In a recent survey, we found that 74% of respondents consider environmental sustainability important when printing and copying. Find-Me printing reduces waste by not printing jobs that are not really needed. Our print management software tracks these important metrics.
- Print from nearly any device
To get more information, please visit Managed Print Services (Xerox) Implementation FAQ’s
(Content for this article was provided by the Managed Print Services Core Team)
Repaving MaineStreet
What is Repaving MaineStreet?
Repaving MaineStreet includes projects to migrate the MaineStreet PeopleSoft® Human Resources (HR) and Financials systems to Oracle Cloud platforms, as well as a reimplementation of MaineStreet PeopleSoft Campus Solutions (CS), the student information system. The overarching goals are to provide:
- An improved MaineStreet Experience for all!
- Expanded opportunities for collaboration between campuses
- Enhanced consistency to support process improvements and data consistency
Looking Ahead – Oracle Cloud (HCM) HR Feature Highlights
- Do you enter time for yourself or others? Are you tired of sifting through a slew of non-descriptive time-reporting codes and complex time-reporting instructions? With Oracle Cloud absence reporting (sick, vacation, bereavement, FMLA, etc.), along with work schedules and shifts, time reporting will be much easier! Holiday, shift differential, sick, vacation, bereavement, etc. for eligible hourly-paid employees will be automatically added to their timecards so only work start and stop times need to be entered!”
- Do you access Employee Self-Service to manage your benefits and personal information? A new streamlined interface will make finding what you need and updating your information easier.
- Are you responsible for hiring? Our new recruitment tools will help you navigate hiring without missing a step.
What’s Happening?
Oracle Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) HR project
The current focus is on the first round of review sessions in the test environment that commenced the week of March 20. This work includes transferring data from the current MaineStreet HR system to the Oracle Cloud HCM test environments.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Finance project
The ERP team is completing follow-up Interactive Requirements and Design Workshops that will help inform the design of the Oracle Cloud ERP platform and related business processes.
MaineStreet Campus Solutions (CS) Reimplementation project
The team is currently preparing for Business Process Assessment (BPA) sessions with student functional area and technical staff. The intent of these sessions is to gain a more comprehensive understanding of how users utilize Campus Solutions on a daily basis, review customizations, develop initial recommendations for use of new or underutilized functionality and technical tools, and discuss potential business process improvement and best practices.
We Need Your Input!
Please take five minutes to complete a survey about the Repaving MaineStreet initiative. Responses are anonymous unless you choose to provide your email at the end of the survey. The deadline for responses is Friday, April 28, 2023. Thank you very much for taking the time to share your input!
What’s Next?
- Late March – Mid- April: The first round of Oracle Cloud HCM (HR) review sessions in the Oracle Cloud HCM test environment.
- April: Campus Solutions Reimplementation Business Process Assessment (BPA) sessions begin.
What Can You Do?
- Stay tuned for more Repaving MaineStreet news and updates, including a sneak peek at the Oracle Cloud HCM system.
- Visit the project website for more information, including access to project presentations and recordings, FAQs, a project glossary, information about project timelines, etc.
- Submit questions and input about the project via the project input form.
(Content for this article was provided by the Repaving MaineStreet Implementation teams )