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The Victoria University website represents a single organisation. A key aspect of this is that stand-alone all core sites are being phased out.integrated with the main site (referred to as the 'mainsite' or 'homesite').
The Victoria University website is topic, task and audience based. We're moving towards having all the website information content organised on this basis, rather than by our organisational structure.
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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
- is underway to improve staff profiles. 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.Improvements to staff profiles have been proposed by the WIP2 project team, who are having discussions about this with ITS.
- Scoping work is underway to provide an information page that sits 'behind' every site page, and can be accessed by staff. This would provide detail on the page's purpose, target audiences, content owner, date last updated, core 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.
- The effectiveness of both News and Events is being considered and solutions discussed to bring about improvements.
(Additions/amendments welcome)
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A new approach for faculty and school
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web content
Structure
- 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 in 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).
- The faculty and school areas will be located in About us > Faculties and schools.
- Faculty areas and school areas will be different from each other: they won't have duplicate content, and each of the two types of area will be tightly focused on a clear purpose and identified target audiences. They will be much simpler than the current sites.
- Where content represents a standard approach, it will be located in a common area of the mainsite, rather than duplicated across faculty areas or across school areas.
- Content that is of high interest to Victoria's audiences will be centrally located on the mainsite. Strong linkages will ensure it remains findable for audiences from within the faculty and school areas.
- Information about subjects, programmes and courses will be located in ‘Future students’. The structure, presentation and content will be improved.
- Information about diplomas, certificates and professional development courses will also be located in 'Future students'. Improving the content is out of scope for the current project.
- Information about research centres and institutes, research projects, research funding and research partnerships will be located in the 'Research' section.
- Information about student wellbeing and support is located in 'Current students': generic information in faculty and school sites will be integrated with this.
- Information about the location of Victoria's campuses, where to find faculties and schools within campuses, and what facilities are available will live in an improved version of the area that is currently called Our campuses.
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