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Some BU Students shared their opinions about the new MyBU Portal and the old Student Link website.

Kaahini Jain, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said although the current Student Link looks old, it is still functional.

“I don’t think [MyBU will] make that much of a difference.

It’s just the front page,” Jain said. “I’m excited to see what it looks like.”

Dana Mansori, a freshman in CAS, said she struggles to use the current Student Link system.

“[The current Student Link] is really hard to manage your way through and find the right thing,” Mansori said. “I find myself looking up how to get to a certain specific page because it’s really hard to get there from the main homepage.” hardware, operating system and database will be completely different from the original system.

Mansori said she hopes MyBU will be easier to navigate than Student Link.

“For now, when you click from a MyBU page into a function like registration, you will go back in time to the relevant Student Link page,” Schroeder wrote.

“In March of next year, that will change, and your MyBU portal experience will also become more personalized.”

Interim Dean of Students

Jason Campbell-Foster sent an email to the BU community on Wednesday, writing that the project is aligned with the University’s priorities to, “use digital technologies to engage with students, support learning across colleges and operate more effectively and efficiently.”

“[MyBU] needs to be much easier and much more user friendly,” she said.

Jonah Dickson, a junior in the College of Communication, said that he doesn’t mind the current system, but has a difficult time navigating the tabs on Student Link.

“It just looks a little old and looks a little out of date to me,” Dickson said. “Sometimes it’s kind of hard to know where things are and just get around it.”

Bellerose said she is open to receiving student feedback about MyBU when it launches next week.

“We’re excited to see how students use this,” she said. “Overall, we’re just really enthusiastic about the response so far and excited to see how this evolves.”