...
- Each faculty and each school will have an area (or subsection or space) rather than a distinct site.
- Faculties and schools that are combined, or wish to be combined on the web, will have 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 areas and school areas will be different from one another: 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 university approach, it will be located in a common area of the mainsite, rather than duplicated across faculty areas or school areas. For example:
- Student wellbeing and support will be located in 'Current students'.
- Alumni will be located in a new 'engagement hub' that is being planned.
- Overseas exchanges will be located in 'Victoria Abroad'.
- Content that is of high interest to Victoria's audiences will be centrally located on the mainsite, rather than in faculty areas or school areas. For example:
- Courses, subjects and programmes will be located in 'Study at Victoria' (now called 'Future students’). The structure, presentation and content will be improved.
- Diplomas, certificates and professional development courses will also be located in 'Study at Victoria'. Improving the Where these are postgrad (or 'graduate'), improving their content is out of in scope for the current WIP2 project. Where they are 'pre-degree', improving their content of is out of scope.
- Staff profiles will be centrally located and 'surfaced' on faculty and school sites (as well as in other relevant areas of the Victoria website, such as news, courses, events, research centres and institutes).
- Research centres and institutes, profiles of research projects (current projects and significant past projects), research funding and research partnerships will be located in the 'Research' section.
- Research reports are extensive and diverse, and need careful consideration. One proposal is that they are located in the Library.
- Information about the location of Victoria's campuses, where to find faculties and schools within campuses, and higher-level content about facilities will live in an improved version of the area that is currently called Our campuses.
- Student study materials and other resources may eventually live in a student learning area of the homesite. This is a longer-term project.
- Content that demonstrates the work faculties and schools do will be clearly discoverable from within the faculty areas and school areas. This is particularly important for courses, subjects and programmes; research; and research centres. Two methods will be used to achieve this:
- Keyword tagging will enable some content types to be authored centrally, then pulled through to faculty areas and school areas.
- Clear links to related content will be integrated into the design.
...