mySIUE Web Portal

mySIUe

• mySIUe is your portal to SIUe

• It provides you with single sign-on for many of the applications you currently access

  • CougarNet

  • Connect

  • Blackboard

  • Financial Aid

  • GradesFirst

• Easy access to announcements, communities

• Connect to Facebook

• Create your own public pages

• mySIUe times out after 30 minutes of inactivity

  • If you opened an application from within mySIUe, there is a separate time out for each

  • Will receive warning message to extend session

    • If extended and try to access an application, will get sign on page for the application

    • Best to logout of mySIUe and log back in

    • Extending allows you access to the portal pages but does not extend the log in to the Central Authentication Service (CAS)

mySIUe Home Page

Warning Message

Login

• Open browser

• Navigate to https://my.siue.edu

• Click 

• Login page opens (CAS)

• Enter e-ID and password

• Click 
  Note: Do not press Enter and click   for the login process. If both are used, the login can freeze up.

• mySIUe home page opens

mySIUe

Central Authentication Service (CAS) Login Page

Navigate mySIUe

• Navigation tools

  • Tool Bar

  • Tabs

  • Menu

Menu

• Hover mouse over Menu to expand

  • Home – Returns to home page

  • Control Panel – Manage account and personal pages

  • My Account – Manage account

  • Toggle Edit Control – Show/hide edit controls in portlets

    • Available edit controls vary depending upon responsibilities

  • Collapse Right panel – Collapses (hides) the right panel

    • Collapse Right panel toggles with Restore Right panel

  • Maximize All – Makes the center section full-size

    • Maximize All toggles with Restore All

mySIUe Header

Menu

Tabs

• • Home – Home page

  • Consist of portlets

  • Portlets are the individual boxes within each page

  • QuickLaunch

    • Access to applications using the single sign-in

    • Items seen will vary among users based on applications accessed

    • Opens in center panel

  • myInformation hold Deeplinks; links to components within the applications without going through the menus (i.e.; Pay Information takes you directly to Pay Information menu within CougarNet for employees)

    • Opens in center panel

  • myLinks are links to other areas or applications

  • myHome cannot be modified other than minimizing a portlet

  • Not all portlets can be minimized

• Feedback – Leave feedback concerning mySIUe

  • Share an idea

  • Ask questions

  • Report a problem

• Communities Request – Communities (groups) pages access request

mySIUe Home Page

Tool Bar

• Tool bar buttons change with page (Tabs)

• My Messages

• My Community – Drop down menu to access your profile, groups (communities) you belong to, friends

• Friends Requests

Tool Bar

General Information

• To move a portlet

  • Hover mouse over portlet title bar

    • Will change to 4-way arrow 

  • Click and hold left mouse button

  • Drag portlet to new position and release mouse button

• Edit controls are located in the portlet title bar

  • To minimize portlet

    • Click 

    • Portlet is reduced to title bar only

  • To restore a minimized portlet

    • Click 

  • To maximize a portlet to full page

    • Click 

    • Click   to return to previous view

  • To expand edit option menu

    • Click 

    • Select menu

  • To remove portlet

    • Click add

mySIUe Portlets

Edit Option Menu

Sign Out

• Click 

  • Be sure to always sign out and close browser to prevent someone from accessing the various applications (i.e.; CougarNet, Connect, Blackboard) with your active sign-in

Sign Out