On Monday, the Division of Student Affairs will replace the UTA Mobile app with the launch of MyUTA, a new platform where students can easily manage their day-to-day campus experience by accessing essential tools, resources and information.
With a redesign of the interface for better visuals and functionality, MyUTA will link multiple platforms with information to a single location. Students can access MyUTA by downloading the mobile app or going online to my.uta.edu, which will replace mymav.uta.edu.
Liz Richter, senior director for the Division of Student Success, said the platform will help keep students aware of what’s happening on campus. There will be campus notifications like MavAlerts and personal ones like Canvas or student account fee notifications.
The Office of Information Technology’s roadmap for the app lists four pillars: improving academic journeys, increasing student engagement, enhancing the student experience and increasing the mobile app’s adoption rate.
“Our goal is, especially when students are walking on campus and have access to their mobile phones, that they can use the app to take quick action,” Richter said.
One of their goals is to allow certain colleges and departments at UTA to push notifications to students in specific majors, she said. The platform also aims to give users the same experience whether they are on the mobile app or at home using their computers.
Tamara Brown, Academic Affairs provost and senior vice president, said MyUTA can streamline tasks like advising, class registration, account payments and deadlines.
“Up pops a message while you're on there, ‘Hey, did you know that your registration window is open? You want to go ahead and get started on registration right now?’”Brown said. “You click yes, and you're in the tool registering for your classes.”
She aims to keep students connected to everything university related through their phones. With how busy students are, they don’t always have time to go to an office in-person, so the app can make it easier, she said.
“Our goal is, especially when students are walking on campus and have access to their mobile phones, that they can use the app to take quick action,” Richter said.
Brown said the app will offer more personalized reminders, which will prevent mass emails from being sent to students who don’t need them.
UTA Mobile was originally created in 2009 with fewer features and was updated in 2020 to aid student success during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Office of Information Technology’s website.
The project’s current team decided to rename the application to MyUTA to better promote the platform as a mobile app and a website. The rebranding aims to leverage student engagement, retention and graduation more effectively.
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