The large dry erase board hanging in Matt Engel’s ground-floor Preston Hall office helped bring Mercyhurst College’s internal communication up to speed this summer.

My.Mercyhurst portal: Mercyhurst College's newest online communication system is available for students, faculty and staff at this sign-on page.

The college’s web programmer used the board to organize how the new my.mercyhurst portal is structured. By mid-August, it was filled end-to-end in red marker with everything from coding language to web addresses to simple link titles such as “Bookstore.”

“All summer we’ve used that (board) to help figure out what will go where,” Engel said.