1. Carleton Central
  2. Brightspace
  3. Banner
  4. Carleton Content Management System (CCMS)
  5. Carleton.ca Web Hosting
  6. Website News

Carleton Central

Carleton Central provides online services for students and employees at Carleton University.

Students will find everything you need to review your admission application, register for courses, change your address, view your student record, and more.  Employees will find information on payroll, benefits, and more.

Once you’ve set up your MyCarletonOne account, you can access Carleton Central from the MyCarleton Portal.

Brightspace

Brightspace is Carleton’s online learning and collaboration environment. Brightspace is powered by Moodle, an open source Learning Management System adopted by a number of Canadian universities.

Login to the Brightspace at carleton.ca/brightspace, through the MyCarleton Portal, or via Carleton’s mobile app using your MyCarletonOne credentials.

The Educational Development Centre (EDC) offers Brightspace support and training. If you encounter a technical issue, please contact the ITS Service Desk.

Banner

Banner is an integrated suite of administrative computing software that provides an enterprise  information technology infrastructure.

For more detailed information, please visit the Banner Finance section on the Finance website.

Banner Document Management (BDM) is an imaging and electronic document management system designed for use with Banner and Banner products. It is designed to meet the imaging and document management requirements of higher education and to seamlessly integrate with Banner products to provide users quick and easy click through access to documents.

Visit the BDM website for training materials.

Carleton Content Management System (CCMS)

ITS provides a Content Management System, Carleton CMS as a web publishing service at Carleton. CCMS delivers an easy-to-use, supported content creation and publishing service for those who maintain information on campus websites – without requiring extensive technical knowledge.

For help with your CCSM website, visit the CCMS Knowledge Base.

Carleton.ca Web Hosting

ITS provides hosting on the main Carleton University website, www3.carleton.ca, for academic and administrative departments who requested this space prior to 2012. Our main hosting service are for the CCMS, providing for the university’s front facing informational websites. Learn how to transfer files to www3.carleton.ca.

Website News

Thursday, April 4, 2013

AODA: Web Accessibility Requirements

Website accessibility falls within the information and communications standard of AODA. Section 14 states: “Designated public sector organizations and large organizations shall make their internet websites and web content conform with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, initially at Level A and increasing to Level AA.” All new... More

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Introducing the New Current Students Website

Current Students now have a new and improved website. The new Carleton Current Students site runs off WordPress 3.5.1 and uses Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (SASS) as a CSS pre-processor. When coding the site, it was important for it to be fully accessible and responsive. When designing the site, the Office of the Associate Vice-President... More

Monday, February 25, 2013

Coffee Break with Web Services Recap

Last Wednesday, Web Services hosted their 6th Coffee Break with Web Services event. At this event, the Web Services department presented on various topics, including  upcoming AODA web requirements, the new CCMS template for departmental and administrative websites, training and support and latest accomplishments. To read more about the event,... More

Monday, February 11, 2013

Important notice about Carleton Websites and Accessibility

Carleton University is committed to meeting our obligations under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). For all of our websites, this means conforming to Section 14 of the Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation. As such, Carleton websites and web content must conform to accessibility standards by January 2014. If... More

Monday, February 11, 2013

Come out for Coffee Break with Web Services

On February 20th, Web Services invites current CCMS (Carleton Content Management Service) clients and anyone interested in the web at Carleton to join the Carleton web community for a sneak peek of the newest CCMS template. Web Services will also be providing information on the upcoming web accessibility requirements. Date: Wednesday, February 20... More

Friday, December 14, 2012

ITS November Metrics [INFOGRAPHIC]

The infographic below highlights things that happened in the world of ITS in November.  Click on the image for a larger... More

Thursday, November 15, 2012

CCS’s October Infographic

The infographic below highlights things that happened in the world of ITS in October.  Click on the image for a larger... More

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Provide cuLearn feedback for your chance to win a $50 gift card

cuLearn is here and the EDC wants to hear from you! Provide  your feedback on cuLearn, Carleton’s new learning management system, and be entered for a chance to win your choice of either a $50 Apple gift card or a $50 gift card to the Carleton Bookstore. Find out... More

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

New Staff and Faculty Homepage

Carleton University’s Department of University Communications and ITS’s Web Services are happy to announce the launch of a new web page dedicated to serving the specific news and information needs of Carleton’s staff and faculty. The new website features dynamic news and events pertaining to staff and faculty, along with quick access to... More

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Sign Up for cuLearn Training

To help instructors transition to cuLearn, the EDC are offering several training sessions throughout the month of August.  Group training is being offered on the following dates: Thursday, August 2nd Tuesday, August 7th Thursday, August 16th Thursday, August 23rd Tuesday, August 28th Thursday, August 30th To sign up, simply click on the preferred... More

Monday, July 30, 2012

cuLearn now available for all Fall courses

cuLearn, Carleton’s new learning management system, is now available to instructors teaching Fall courses. cuLearn will run in parallel to webCT until May 2013. WebCT will no longer be available after May 2013. To help transition to cuLearn, the Educational Development Centre is offering several types of group training sessions. Sign up for... More

Monday, July 16, 2012

Transition to cuLearn Well Underway

Carleton’s transition to our Learning Management System, cuLearn (powered by Moodle) is well underway! cuLearn launched in May with 66 instructors added in 59 course sections.  Instructors and students have appreciated the modern interface, the flexibility in organizing course content and the overall simplicity of the system. In the fall,... More

Monday, July 9, 2012

Upcoming CCMS Upgrade

Over the next two weeks, Web Services will be upgrading all Carleton Content Management Service (CCMS) websites to the latest version of WordPress and to a new theme. Many features in this upgrade were based on community feedback, such as the implementation of a ‘print friendly’ button, events archiving and additional social media sharing... More

Monday, June 25, 2012

Carleton Central issues Resolved

Access to Carleton Central has been restored.  Thank you for your patience. If any further issues are experienced, please contact the ITS Service... More

Monday, June 25, 2012

Carleton Central Issues being Experienced

We are currently experiencing some technical difficulties with Carleton Central due to high registration volumes. We are working to resolve this issue, and will advise you when this has been completed. In the interim, we regret this inconvenience this may... More

Monday, May 7, 2012

cuLearn now available for a select number of Spring courses

The EDC and ITS are happy to announce that cuLearn, Carleton’s new Learning Management System (LMS), is now available for a select number of Spring courses. Visit the new cuLearn support website for a list of all courses on cuLearn. The transition to cuLearn began in Fall 2010 when potential systems were piloted.  After... More

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

High Volume on Carleton Central Subsided

(9:20 am) Traffic to Carleton Central has now subsided.  If you experience any further issues, please contact us at 520-3700. Due to high volumes, Carleton Central is experiencing intermittent access issues. If you receive a ‘page cannot be displayed’ message please refresh your... More

Monday, April 16, 2012

cuLearn coming to select courses this Spring

cuLearn (powered by Moodle), Carleton’s new Learning Management System, will be available for a select number of courses this spring term. cuLearn offers many ways for instructors to manage, organize and communicate course information. One of improvements of cuLearn over WebCT is the ability to drag and drop documents into cuLearn from your... More

Monday, October 17, 2011

Carleton Selects cuLearn to Replace WebCT

After an extensive review and evaluation, Carleton has selected cuLearn (powered by Moodle) as the replacement for WebCT. While WebCT has served Carleton well in the past, the product is at the end of its life cycle and will no longer be updated.   It was important that the system we selected be reliable, easy... More

Thursday, May 19, 2011

WebCT Replacement Update

WebCT is coming to the end of its life cycle and for this reason needs to be replaced by a new Learning Management System (LMS). To ensure the new LMS meets the needs of our community, Carleton has been involved in an extensive decision-making process involving trials of the three most promising systems (Moodle,... More

Monday, March 7, 2011

Changes to Student Computing Accounts

With a Student Computing Account, students currently have access to two drives: a U: drive and a G: drive. Due to declining usage and attractive alternatives, the U: drive will no longer be available as of April 30,... More

Thursday, October 7, 2010

WebCT

CCS will be performing an emergency restart of the WebCT application in order to resolve an immediate issue which is affecting the system.  WebCT will be unavailable for approximately 30 minutes. Full service will resume by 12:45... More

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Carleton Central Phishing Website

If you receive an email message requesting that you visit www.centralcarleton.ca, please do not visit this website.  This is a phishing website and is not affiliated with Carleton University’s Carleton Central service. The correct website address for Carleton Central is http://central.carleton.ca  If you have already visited this website,... More

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