ESPRIT moved to ARP. We are migrating too.
ESPRIT moved student services from the old ESPOnline website to arp.esprit.tn. This disrupted parts of ESPRIT Portal, so new website and mobile logins are paused while we rebuild the integration properly.
Status
Existing logged-in users can keep using cached data. New logins are paused.
Broken for now
Empty-room discovery is lost for now. It needs a clean ARP-based rebuild before it can come back.
Upside
ARP exposes more data, including old grades and administrator contact details.
What changed
The old website was ugly, but it did the job. ARP is newer, but the current experience needs too many clicks for basic tasks, and some parts feel unfinished.
The biggest loss for now is empty-room discovery. That feature is one of the reasons this project started, and it needs a new ARP-based path before it can return.
A few ARP examples
These are user-facing screenshots. The first two look copied from ESPRIT Portal ideas; the third one is just embarrassing.
Nearest holiday, copied and misplaced
My nearest-holiday idea showed up in ARP, and still says there are no upcoming holidays. Copying the idea and shipping it broken is a choice.
Star ratings, very familiar
A criteria-based star-rating UI appeared too. If you used ESPRIT Portal professor ratings, this does not look inspired; it looks copied with weaker execution.
Search labels leaking through
Search results named Button and Dialog are not polish issues; that is unfinished UI escaping into production.
Why we are pausing logins
ESPRIT Portal connected the ecosystem students actually use: grades, schedules, Blackboard, ESPRIT Connect, ratings, and rooms. The official replacement picked up familiar ideas like holiday countdowns and star ratings, but the launch still feels rushed and unreliable.
We would rather pause new users for a short time than let them log into a service where key ESPRIT-related features may fail.
See you soon at ESPRIT Portal V2.
We are going to migrate properly, keep the useful parts, and rebuild the broken ones around actual student needs.
Anyway, from the outside, it feels like they care more about public image than student service. A student built a better website and mobile app that linked the ecosystem from Blackboard to ESPRIT Connect, and the official response looks like a rushed half-baked platform filled with bugs and what look like some .... security ..... holes ;)