Student Partnerships
Partner with USE & Buff Portal
CU Boulder Design for America - Spring 2023
- User research including a hybrid asynchronous card sort activity to inform improvements to Buff Portal’s information architecture and menu organization
- Team: Jenn Kaphammer, Sofia Krulevitch, Micah Gagerman, Alexa Hugenberg, Sabin Shrestha, Caroline Steely
CU Boulder Design for America - Fall 2022
- Initial user research for an improved homepage/dashboard experience in Buff Portal.
- Team: Paola Solorzano Bravo, Alexandra Charland, Alexa Hugenberg, Jenn Kaphammer, and Sofia Krulevitch.
CU Boulder Design for America - Fall 2021
- Initial user research for improved advising experience in Buff Portal
- Team: Kyra Moran, Alanis Wilson-Ehrenthal, Lucy Bosch, Isabelle Brandes, Luke Fitzpatrick, Namita Pasupuleti, Paola Solorzano Bravo
CU Boulder Design for America - Spring 2021
- Prototype Development and User Testing for Buff Portal Tutoring Experience
- Team: Amara Filochowski, Madison Lolicata, Kyra Moran, Ted Thayer
CU Boulder Design for America - Fall 2020
- Research and Design Ideation for Buff Portal Tutoring Experience.
- Team: Amara Filochowski, Erica Hung, Madison Lolicata, Kyra Moran, Lukas Voemel
CU Boulder Design for America - Spring 2020
- User testing of new collapsible card design
- Team: Amara Filochowski, Brittany Choy, Cat Jones, Damean Rittmann
CU Advertising Club - Fall 2019
- Support for filming and storyboarding Buff Portal promotional video
- Isabella Giannini, Nic Lawrence, Sophia Mcwhorter, Nina Ryan
CU Boulder Design for America - Spring 2019
- Refining Buff Portal's search experience
- Team: Benjamin Goldin, Nicholas Stankus, Ayesha Rawal, Siddarth Sharma
CU Boulder Design for America - Fall 2019
- Improve usability and design of link-out cards
- Team: Ayesha Rawal, Callie Habegger and Kareena Arora
Class Partnerships
WRTG 3035 - Spring 2022
- Data analysis to identify the most common student questions about Buff Portal and the creation of an improved FAQ Buff Portal Help Page for the OIT website
- Team: Logan Byler, Avery Harrell, Nathan Straub, Trevor Ward
WRTG 3035 - Fall 2020
- Research and early proposal for a Lost & Found experience
- Team: Kelsey Valencia and Cody Wheeler
WRTG 3035 - Fall 2019
- Survey to understand the student experience with MyCUInfo
- Team: Thomas Alder, Jack Danielski, and Aazer Rae
- Test Buff Portal promotional poster campaign
- Mary Bennett, Diana Duffy, and Isabella Schutz
WRTG 3035 - Spring 2019
- In-portal feedback experience for Test Buff Portal campaign
- Team: Julie Abjean, Nicholas Auer, Nathan Baker, and Jennifer Palese
Other
Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (LISA) - Fall 2020
- Partnership with LISA’s statistical collaborators to develop a process for automated sentiment analysis and categorization of Buff Portal’s feedback card comments.
- Read more about our collaboration with LISA’s statistical collaborators.
- Team: Sricharan Reddy Varra and Chris Zimmer
Buff Portal Insiders & Alumni
We recognize the following students for providing insight and testing new features to improve the student portal, Buff Portal. Thank you for your time and dedication to CU Boulder’s online student experience!
- Matthew Adkins
- Piper Butts
- Tyler Irving
- Lauren Jingles
- Jamie Joung
- Dominique Montes
- James Negus
- Ames Newman
- Josie O’Brien
- Sidney Pennell
- Kylie Shrank
- Ashley Sullivan
- Abby Vagher
- Aris Wertin
Faculty & Staff Partnerships
- Academic Learning & Innovation
- Admissions Office
- Advising and Student Support Centers
- Buff Info
- Bursar's Office
- Continuing Education
- CU Book Store
- Division of Student Affairs
- Graduate School
- New Student & Family Programs
- Office of Financial Aid
- Office of the Registrar
- OIT - Data Analytics
- OIT - Data Services
- OIT - Digital Accessibility
- OIT - Student Success Technologies
- OIT - Technical Solutions for Online Education
- Scholarships
- Strategic Relations & Communications
- Undergraduate Education
- University Housing
- University Information Services
Want to partner with the Buff Portal team? Contact us at buffportal@colorado.edu.
