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- Could be at the same level as areas of study (where there is only one in an area of study) or lower. What will this mean for content plans?
- Might require a related subjects list (currently manually maintained)
- Is related to a school (and through this to a faculty)
- Can be studied through one or more programmes (maybe we show advantages of each, if more than one)
- Could display the "associated staff", based on roles (e.g. teaches this courses related to this subject, researches in this subject area, is librarian with responsibility for this subject area). All this might also apply to area of study.
- Could display research opportunities: Based on research interests of staff (see above bullet point), research projects (especially if funded), institutes/centres/chairs, etc. All this might also apply to area of study.
Programmes
- Assuming we market programmes, is there room to improve the information about them?
- Expressed the mapping to subjects in reverse?
- Do students want to know the courses required by the rules of a programme? (also covered in the courses section above)
- This touches on where is the master of this data, can it be accessed via an API or ingested somehow, is it understandable by a human, etc? An important question, that could take some time to answer.
- Would this also need improved data quality in course outlines, which in turn would mean a design of the Banner form/screen for data entry?
- This could be a lot of information, so careful UI design is a must. Josef, enter stage left.
- Are administered by a faculty
Where does the 1 October date come from?
I have picked this date up from two sources, both with a similar focus:
- COO set this as their target date to have course outlines for 2016 available online via the new, centralised publishing model.
- Tash stated that this is date as though it was the commonly accepted date for the start of the recruitment/admissions/enrolment season for 2016 (and maybe the summer trimester, that I don't know).
Given the reason behind this date, and that the course outlines will all be on homesite, having subjects and programmes also on homesite means we significantly reduce the "bouncing" of students between two generations of our templates and brand. The key information that students need from the website in that busy season would all be served from homesite templates.
Given that this target might be challenging it seems reasonable to focus it on undergraduate first, as this is the bulk of the users and the vast majority of the future students (who have not yet learnt how to navigate our mixed site.
- Chrissi Dean (Unlicensed) note the explanation that you requested.
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