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- Each faculty and each school will have an area (or subsection or space) rather than a distinct site. See attachment for how these could be presented in a flattened IA.
- Faculties and schools that are combined, or wish to be combined on the web, will have a blended area. Combined areas could be provided for: Law, Engineering and CS, and possibly Architecture and Design (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
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is general and outlines 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 currently 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'.
- Where these are postgrad (or 'graduate'), improving their content is in scope for the 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 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.
- Scholarships information will be located in the Scholarships section of 'Current students' (which includes the Scholarships database).
- 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 learning resources that are currently on school sites are likely to eventually live in a student learning area of the homesite. This is a longer-term project.
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Other content:
- Research reports are extensive and diverse, and need careful consideration. One proposal is that they are located in the Library.
- Research centres, institutes and chairs are also diverse, and will be considered in the 'Research centres' phase of the WIP2 project.
How faculty and school content will be found
Content that demonstrates the work that faculties and schools do will be clearly discoverable from within the faculty areas and school areas.
- Graphic/promo links to related faculty and school content will be integrated into the design.
- Text links will be integrated into the content.
Re-usable content
- 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.
Design
- The faculty areas and school areas will have a new design that is engaging and appealing, matches the homesite and works well on mobile devices.
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Audience | Information needs |
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Prospective staff | Is this somewhere I'd like to work? What do they do? Who else works here? |
Prospective students, including international students, and their influencers | Understand the strengths and features of the school. Why would I choose to study here? What would it be like being a student here? |
| Prospective research partners (industry and business, government (central, local), other universities) | Understand the strengths and features of the school. Why would I work with them? Who are their people? What are their areas of expertise? |
| Current students - both coursework and research | Study and research material and information that is distinct to the school/programme. |
Home
| Intro | Intro block - brief. Linking to main intro. |
| Contacts | Contact block. |
| News | Research projects, student achievements etc. |
| Events | Seminars, conferences, careers events, lectures etc. |
| Links: | Centres and institutes (if located elsewhere) Faculty site |
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| Introduction | Strengths, unique features. Vibrant, exciting, makes an emotional connection. Like a walk down Cuba St? Include a video tour? Consider including a 1-minute video from HOS. |
| What we do | Possibly part of the introduction? A description of the work the school does, with links to relevant content on the homesite (eg: Topics; Degrees; Postgrad quals; Research projects; Centres and institutes). May be a series of visual 'promo' links. |
| Location and facilities | Link to Our campuses on the homesite. ('Our campuses' should be extended to include information about where to find faculties and schools within campuses, what general facilities are available, building/floor access, health and safety, and similar. Identify audiences (students, visitors) and their needs.) Any 'local' information that is specific to the school and wouldn't be a fit on the mainsite can be added to this page. |
| Students | A small collection of features covering the university experience of recent students. |
| Staff | People finder tool? All staff associated with the school. Not presented in a table. |
| Alumni | Link to alumni area in the new 'engagement hub'. Retain on the school site any school-specific information for alumni (eg, newsletters, how to sign up). (But note that this may move to the engagement hub eventually.) |
| Positions | Eg, Academic Visitors' Programme, Fellows, Curator in Residence (School of Art History). |
| Partners | Accreditation, affiliations, prof bodies, industry assns and partnerships, sponsors, donors. |
| Publications | Link to mainsite for relevant publications - eg: School Prospectus, Faculty Handbook. |
Student info
Purpose: School-specific info for current students by coursework and research students that wouldn't fit into the content areas on the homesite.
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