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There's a new Channel available in the OneTech Portal. Institutional Research has recently asked me to create a channel with a link to the Argos Reporting Tool which is an online reporting tool to extract information from Banner. Any Faculty or Staff member can add this channel to OneTech, but you must contact Intuitional Research to gain access to the system.

To add the channel click 'Content/Layout' in the top left of screen. Select the tab you would like to put the channel on. Click an 'Add Channel' button where you would like to place the channel. Select 'Applications' in the drop down menu and click 'go'.  Select 'Argos Reporting Tool' in the next list and click 'Add Channel.' Then click 'Back to Welcome tab' in the top left.

A new channel has been added to the Students tab called "My Account." This channel gives you the total amount of money that you owe for a given term. To view a more detailed summary of your charges for each term, click on the term link. This will take you into Self-Service to see a summary of your account charges as well as a link to pay your bill online.

A new "Student Grades" channel has been added to the Student tab to allow for easy viewing of grades when they are posted. Midterm and Final grades can both be viewed within the new channel.

If you have already created your own tab for Blackboard then you probably already know why that is a bad idea. Here's why. Creating an inline frame tab is easy enough, but some external web sites like Blackboard are known in the web design community as "frame busters". A "frame buster" is simply a web site that takes over the entire web browser session no matter what is being displayed. This is exactly what happens when you render Blackboard in an inline frame tab. Blackboard may work correctly for a little while in this case but as soon as you click on a particular link it will take over your entire web browser and effectively break your OneTech portal session. This is why we have included Blackboard as a link and not an inline frame tab.