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The WIP2 project team has been asked to recommend an improved approach to presenting faculty and school content online.
Summary
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of recommendations
- Sections/areas, not separate sites.
- Much smaller and simpler - audience focused, clearly defined purpose.
- Content much more integrated with mainsite. Content exposed in key areas of site where visitors are looking at related material.
- No content duplication.
- Flexible approach - 'local' content that has no logical home on mainsite remains on school site.
- Aligned with mainsite approach for content being organised by task, topic or user group - not by organisational structure.
- Proposal to move away from distributive publishing, towards an account manager web publishing model. Needs lots of discussion! Current issues are poor quality publishing, writing (endemic) and content management; and the amount of training and ongoing support needed.
Some key changes:
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- Courses, subjects and programmes will be located (only) in Future students. (The plan is to rename this section 'Study at Victoria'.)
- Dips, certs etc will be located in Future students.
- Research projects, centres and institutes, research funding and partnership info (ie, outward focused) will be in an improved Research section.
- Info for research students will be located in the postgrad 'area' or with related PG content (depending on how this pans out in phase 3).
- Wellbeing and other 'student support' content will be integrated into Current students.
- Location/facilities info will be moved into an improved 'Our campuses' area (via Maps).
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