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Studying: In her third year of a Bachelor of Biomedical Science majoring in human genetics. Planning to do postgrad.
Lives: Renting a place with her partner. When she first arrived she joined a flat in Newlands, which was a good way to meet people.
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Events: Occasionally goes to science talks but finds out the details of those from lecturers.
Channels:
Likes BB and MyVic - "All the links are there."
Also uses Facebook - follows:
- Science Society (club?)
- Vic
- Student Association
- Possibly Faculty? (unsure)
Email: Doesn't use that much.
Faculty website, school website - doesn't use them.
Victoria websites: Uses it mainly website: Mainly to go to MyVictoria and Blackboard. Sometimes uses the Library site to book rooms. Has used it to search for lecturers and find their offices.
Posters - yes
Screens - to find out what time it is
Text - no
E-newsletters - no
Behaviour: Finds the Victoria website using google. Starts at the homepage. Course finder in the quicklinks. Selects undergrad and bio medical science. Wasn't keen to use the type-in box as she doesn't "know course codes". Found the righthand filters easily (uses them a lot) and filtered for trimester. On the course page she checked the pre-requisits, timetable and assessment breakdown (internal v external). "It would be nice if you could 'click, click, click' and it worked it all out for you". Also looked at a staff page. Searched straight from home. "Office hours would be useful."
Searched for "postgrad", looking for general postgrad info. But the results were confusing because engineering's site came up first and then other sites. She couldn't find her area in the list. Biomedical wasn't there. Found science eventually. At first glance the page looked useful but then she came to the navigation, which had acronyms for the programmes. That wasn't useful because she had no idea what they meant or what the difference was between the programmes.
- When looking at internal search results, ignored shaded (suggested) results.
- Staff profiles - for finding their room number. Their research achievements are relevant when selecting a supervisor for PG.
Labelling: Thought 'learning and teaching' was where they would find information about learning services.