Page Comparison

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• Who to contact
• Staff profiles
• Subjects, programmes and courses - undergrad and postgrad
• Scholarships and awards and exchanges
• News
• Events
• Student profiles - eg, research students
• Accessing centres and institutes.

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Victoria University website: where it's going

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• The current information architecture (IA) is under review, including top menu items and second-level navigation options.
• Work to improve the site search is underway.
• Scoping work to improve staff profiles is underway. It is proposed that they are located in one 'repository', are easy for staff to update, are made up of relevant content fields, and are visually appealing. There is also the opportunity to make profiles available to postgraduate/research students. 
• Scoping work is underway to provide an information page that sits 'behind' every site page, and can be accessed by staff members. It This would provide detail on the page's purpose, target audiences, content owner, date last updated, analytics (eg, number of views of the page, average time spent on page) and similar things. The Web Team will start providing content owners with monthly analytics reports in the near future.
• A review of the Research section of the homesite will be carried out in phase 3 of the WIP2 project, which looks at Postgraduate information. 
• The effectiveness of both News and Events is being considered and solutions developed to bring about content and functional improvements.   
• The Web (project) WIP2 Project Team is developing a short guide for faculties and schools about which channels to use for communicating with students.  

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• There will no longer be distinct sites, but there will be an area or subsection for each faculty and each school (unless they are combined, or wish to be combined on the web, in which case there will be a blended area). See attachment for how these could be presented . Candidates for combined areas arein a flattened IA. Combined areas could be provided for: Law, Engineering and CS, Architecture and Design, and Faculty of Education/School of Education: Te Kura Māori (to be discussed).
• Faculty The faculty and school areas will be located in About us > Faculties and schools.
• They will be simplified and redesigned. 
•  These areas will be much simpler than the current sites. For each type of area, a clear purpose and identified target audiences will ensure they are appropriately focused. 
• The faculty and school areas will have a new design that matches the homesite and works well on mobile devices.
• Content will be improved as part of the redevelopment. It will be written for online readers, have more visual elements and be more engaging. 
• Some content that is centrally 'authored' will be pulled through to faculty and school areas (as appropriate). This includes news, events and staff profiles. Courses, subjects and programmes will be 'discoverable' on school sites.
• There will be clear links to information that is centrally located, such as centres and institutes; research projects; and student wellbeing. 
• Content that is distinct to the school or faculty will be located in the faculty or school area.
• Features ('profiles') will be rationalised: we'll plan more carefully what they cover, align them more closely with News, and include more multimedia. 

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• Consideration is being given to the proposal that three full-time professional web writer/publishers (new roles) could work alongside the Comms 'account managers' and provide the web content writing and publishing services that faculties and schools need. (There would could be room for staff who are currently web admins in F&S  to remain involved in web publishing, if they wished to do so.)
• The Web (project) WIP2 Project Team are creating a 'best practice guide' to content management, which will include advice on content planning and tools and techniques for keeping content current.

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About / About the school

Campus

Contacts / School contacts

Study info

Purpose: School-specific info for current students that wouldn't fit into the generic content on the homesite.

Other areas with important 'local' content can be added to this subsection as needed - eg, Law has 'local' content on overseas exchanges: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/law/study/overseas-exchanges

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and Maths has 'local' content on prizes: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/smsor/study/scholarships-prizes 

There may also be a page or two on study groups.

Content to be moved:

• Content on clubs to go here 
• Scholarships to go here
• Prizes to go here (needs rebuilding)

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Recommend that we create a new page in Current students > New students telling them what channels to use to get updates, how to sign up to them, etc. Make sure they know all they need to about BB, Fbk, Vic email addresses, and so on. Task for Sam?

Research info

Purpose: SchoolInternally focused, school-specific info for current research students that wouldn't fit into the generic content on the homesite.

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 Moved out: All info and profiles of research projects (extensive) and all research reports (extensive). Assuming all of this would be moved into the Research section. Need to consider how we'll manage that: the section currently has an outward focus.

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Faculty site

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