By Trina A. San Agustin
Variety News Staff

GUAM Community College will unveil in June a redesigned Web site that allows students to view their grades, register, pay for classes, and view the current catalog and schedule of courses.
The unveiling comes a year after the college attempted to revamp the Web site on April 17, 2006.
GCC assistant director of communications Cathy Gogue told Variety of the need for a new user friendly Web site.
“When we launched the new site, it was on April 17, 2006 and because we had some quirks, we took it off. We wanted to put out more accessible information, and one of the software that we were using didn’t allow our students to do that,” Gogue added.
The island’s only college hopes to see an increase in student registration numbers in response to the Web site.
“We hope that this will serve as a marketing tool. We have all of our stuff attached to our Web site and when people visit, they see a dynamic Web site. When the Web site (catches their interest), students will get more information about GCC,” she added.
Before they met with the vendor contracted to make the design for the Web site, the planning committee visited numerous online Web sites of stateside colleges and universities such as the University of San Diego, the University of Hawaii, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Columbia.
“When we were planning for the new Web site, we didn’t want anything like the current one where you don’t have much behind. We didn’t want that. We wanted to find out how it will benefit the students,” Gogue said.
Before a student can register online, he needs to visit the administration’s office and register for a user identification and personal identification number to access the site.
Gogue told Variety that the school will officially unveil the “revamped” Web site sometime in June.
“We are just excited about the whole project, well, not just the Web site but the connection to the portal called ‘MyGCC.’ Now the Web site will also be accessible to employees of GCC. We can check our leave balance and our payroll. We won’t have to work with human resources or the payroll departments. This is all way overdue,” Gogue added.