Document status: This is the current version. Please ignore earlier versions.Being revised by Paul in supporting Jane Most recent version but currently under revision to prepare key messages and presentation for F&S
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- Who to contact
- Staff profiles
- Subjects and programmes - undergrad and postgrad (this traffic is likely to come in via the site and external search)
- Admin info for current students (eg, facilities, building access hours, academic transcripts, faculty handbook, forms)
- Accessing centres and institutes.
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- Research reports are extensive and diverse, and need careful consideration. One proposal is that they are They could be located in the Library, or in the Research hub, or stay attached to their faculties and schools.
- Research centres, institutes and chairs will be located in the Research hub, at least until Engagement have a better plan.
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- The faculty areas and school areas will have a new design that is engaging and appealing, matches Homesite and works well on mobile devicesutilising Squiz responsive templates similar to Homesite.
Content improvement
- Most of the content that is currently on faculty and school sites will be moved pretty much as is, with some trimming and some rewriting as resource allows. Attention should be given to the needs of the target audiences and therefore the writing should be in plain language, formatted for online readers, have more visual elements and be more engaging.
- 'Features' (eg, student experience and project profiles) will be rationalised: We will consider carefully what they cover, align them more closely with News, include more multimedia, reuse those used on topic pages where possible, and ensure they're always recent.
- Guidance will be provided to faculties and schools to help them address some of the content management issues they mentioned at the workshops. This will include advice on content planning, and tools and techniques for keeping content current. It will draw on effective practices identified in the workshops, and expertise and prior experience within the web team.
- Findings will be shared from user sessions where Victoria students were asked which channels they prefer for getting information and updates from faculties and schools.
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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?Current students - both coursework and research | Study and research material and information that is distinct to the school/programme. |
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 staff | Is this somewhere I'd like to work? What do they do? Who else works 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. |
Content
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Home
| Introduction | Brief intro block, linking to Introduction page in About Us section |
| Our services | Overview of services school offers (what is taught (via a topics/subjects widget) and what is researched (content or a filtered search result?)), with rest on About Us section. |
| Our people | People finder widget for academic and general staff, as well as research-focused PG students |
| Contact us | Block with key contact details, including any social media accounts |
| News | Research projects, student achievements etc. Surfacing from Homesite based on tags |
| Events | Seminars, conferences, careers events, lectures etc. Surfacing from Homesite based on tags |
Content
The content outline below represents a general example of what a school area might contain. While some content will be in all school areas (eg, Introduction, What we do), other content won't be required by all schools - and some schools may have additional content needs.
About us
| 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 qualsOur services | A fuller version of what is in the Home section/page.Link to Homesite content when ever possible (eg: Subjects/topics; UG Degrees and PG programmes; Research projects; Centres and institutes). May be a series of visual 'promo' links. Could have a course widget to show courses taught by the school (or staff in the school). | |
| Location and facilities | Link to Our campuses on the homesite. Retain info about facilities, building/floor access, health and safety, and similar - (although potentially this should be located in 'Current students'? | Students | A), but maybe have an overview here and the detail in the Student Information section |
| 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.Are these stories? Projects? |
| 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 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 and Forms | Link Links to mainsite for relevant publications - eg:core publications (e.g. School Prospectus, Faculty Handbook . |
Student info
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) Does this include research reports/publications (that are not by an individual (therefore in staff profiles) or a centre/institute/chair (therefore in Research hub) |
Student information
Purpose: School-specific information for current students by coursework and research students.
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(Note that longer term, study and research material and resources may live in a student learning area of the homesite.)
| Facilities | EgDetails behind overview in About Us section above. Includes:
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| Resources | Study and research resources - eg: databases databases, software, online written resources. Example: School of Linguistics |
| Study groups | Student study groups. |
| Work experience and internships | (Amend nav label as relevant to the content) Will only be required by a few schools - eg, ECS |
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Links
(A tentative list) | Areas of study (topics, degrees, postgrad programmes) Research information - including:
'Current students' - eg: Student services and support / New students / Wellbeing / Clubs
Centres, Institutes and Chairs - if located elsewhere
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| Social media sites (eg, Facebook) |
Faculty area
Purpose
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Questions
- Would Resources include publications, facilities, forms, etc?
- What do we do when facilities are for research, not necessarily for teaching/students but either for research or available to industry?
- Where do schools put research outputs (feature published (student) research) and associations (centres, institutes and chairs)?
- Publications and forms seem to fit as well in Student Information as in About Us. Preferences?
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Faculty area
Purpose
- Provide a profile of the faculty, including its purpose, roles and responsibilities; structure and affiliations.
- Enable staff in different roles at the faculty to be easily identified and contacted.
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Audience | Information needs |
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Prospective staff | Understand the strengths and features of the faculty. Is this somewhere I'd like to work? Who else works here? |
| Current students - both coursework and research | Find out about Student and Academic Services - what they can help with, how to contact them. |
Home
| IntroIntroduction | Intro block - brief. Linking to main intro in 'About us'. | |
| Who to contact | Contact block. Include Student and Academic Services. | |
| Our schools | 'Quicklinks' to schools.Our services and schools | Overview of services faculty offers (what is administered and managed 'Quicklinks' to schools. Do we (via widgets and filtered search results) also show what is taught and researched by the schools in the faculty? Could save user time searching, but would it be misleading? |
| Our people | People finder widget for academic and general staff, as well as research-focused PG students. Covers both faculty and schools within | |
| Who to contact | Contact block. Include Student and Academic Services. | |
| News | Research projects, student achievements etc. Surfacing from Homesite based on tags Do these ever happen at a faculty level? Would it (also) include all those for all the schools beneath? | |
| Events | Seminars, conferences, careers events, lectures etc. Surfacing from Homesite based on tags Do these ever happen at a faculty level? Would it (also) include all those for all the schools beneath? |
Content
The content outline below represents a general example of what a school area might contain. While some content will be in all school areas (eg, Introduction, What we do), other content won't be required by all schools - and some schools may have additional content needs.
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| (A tentative list) | Areas of study (topics, degrees, postgrad programmes) Research Centres, institutes and chairs (if located elsewhere) |
| Social media sites (eg, Facebook) |
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programmes) Research Centres, institutes and chairs (if located elsewhere) | |
| Social media sites (eg, Facebook) |
Questions
- Should we consider a model where more of the action/glamour is at a faculty level (by including the aggregation of news and events from units within a faculty) and leave schools to handle supporting students? Why do we want a lite faculty site and have many more active school sites?
- Where do we show research centres that are attached to faculty (not school) level?
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Summary of approach
- 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. Strong links from F and S areas.
- 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.
- Encourage people to think about F&S content (rather than F&S 'sites').
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