🧭 Jira/Confluence Updates: New navigation experience coming soon, admin support group created

Atlassian is rolling out a new navigation experience across all Jira and Confluence instances starting in early July 2025. These updates are designed to improve usability, consistency, and customization across platforms. Because Atlassian’s release falls in the middle of ATP’s Workday cutover, we have chosen to move to the new navigation experience early: the end of the day on June 5. This decision was made to provide users with time to adjust prior to the new settings prior to Atlassian pushing it out to us.

What’s Changing?

  • The navigation menu on the homepage is transitioning from the horizontal toolbar across the top to a customizable vertical sidebar that lets you show, hide, or reorder items to suit your workflow. In addition, it creates a decluttered top navigation focused on essential tasks like Search and Create.
  • The navigation menu in each Project is transitioning from a vertical side menu to tabs across the top of each project
These changes aim to make it easier to find your work, stay focused, and navigate between tools more efficiently. Learn more about the upcoming navigation changes by visiting Atlassian’s support: If you would like to see the navigation changes in real-time, log in to the MSN-SIS-Sandbox environment prior to the June 5 roll out.

📢 New admin group formed to support Jira and Confluence users across DEM

In addition to the navigation changes mentioned above, we’re excited to announce the formation of a new admin group dedicated to supporting users of Jira and Confluence across our DEMSIS instance. This group brings together representatives from various areas (listed below) to ensure a well-rounded and responsive support system for all users.
  • Division of Enrollment Management (DEM): Chris Lopac, Leah Meicher, Brittney Trimmer
  • Enterprise Business Systems (EBS): Angela Hoffman
  • Imaging: Julie Martinelli
  • RO Application Developers (ROAD): Brian Hill
To help streamline collaboration with this new admin group, we’ve created a new support email address: msnsis_atlassian_admins@wisc.edu This centralized email address is your go-to for:
  • Access Requests to the DEMSIS instance
  • Troubleshooting
  • General Inquiries
The admin group is committed to improving your experience with these essential tools and ensuring smooth collaboration across teams. Stay tuned for more updates and tips in future emails and newsletters!