New version of 草榴社区 App features on-the-fly menu info from campus dining halls
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The app has features such as a campus map, a feed of campus news and events from Western Today, a campus calendar, feeds from Western鈥檚 various social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook, a faculty and staff directory, class schedules, online bill pay, athletics schedules and news, and campus photos.
The newest version of the app adds:
- Complete menu information for each day's offerings at campus dining halls, such as the Viking Commons, Ridgeway聽Commons, and Fairhaven Commons, so users can see what is being offered around campus that day before their meal.
- Canvas functionality, allowing students and faculty to access Western鈥檚 course-management system via their mobile device
- For Android users only, a 鈥淲estern Wheels鈥 app in the Links section with full WTA bus schedules.
- The newest version also includes a fix for Apple users; in older versions, launching some of the features in the app would take you off the app with no way to get back except to re-launch it, but this has been remedied in the new version.
The majority of the coding work for the app was done by Bob Finch in Administrative Computing Services; the app鈥檚 icons and graphic interface were provided by Marie Raney and her team in Web Communication Technologies and graphic artist Derek Bryson from University Communications and Marketing.