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- Provide a profile of the school and its activities, demonstrating its strengths and relevance to the key audience groups (see table below).
- Surface Homesite content as appropriate in a school setting.
- Provide a base for school-specific study and research material and information for current students. (Longer term, this may live in a student learning area of the homesiteHomesite.)
Audiences
Audience | Information needs |
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| Current students - both coursework and research | Study and research material and information that is distinct to the school/programme. |
Prospective students, including international and postgraduate 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? |
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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.
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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. | ||
| Our 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, institutes and chairs). 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'), 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. Are these stories? Projects? | ||
| Alumni | Link to alumni area in Medium term plan is to move much/all alumni information to the new 'engagement hub' and link to it. Retain However, a short-medium term solution might be required to retain it 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, new school site. |
| Positions | Appointments and important positions outside the normal management chart (e.g. Academic Visitors' Programme, Fellows, Curator in Residence (School of Art History). | ||
| Partners | Accreditation, affiliations, professional bodies, industry associations and partnerships, sponsors, donors. | ||
| Forms | If any. | ||
| Publications and Forms | Links to core publications (e.g. School Prospectus, Faculty Handbook) 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) if they can't go to the library? |
Student information
Purpose: School-specific information for current students by coursework and research students.
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(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) |
Questions
- Would Resources include publications, facilities, forms, etcIs Student Information better labelled Supporting students in study and research?
- Is Resources different or does it include Publications? Facilities? Forms?
- What do we do when facilities are for research, not necessarily for teaching/students but either for research or available to industry (e.g. specialised equipment)?
- Where do schools we plan to put research outputs from (feature published (studenthistoric) research ) and associations (centres, institutes and chairs)funding?
- Publications and forms seem to fit as well in Student Information as in About Us. PreferencesAre there a subset there and others on About Us? references?
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Faculty area
Purpose
- Provide a profile of the faculty and its activities, including responsibilities, structure (i.e. schools) and affiliations.
- Could aggregate some of the content of its composite schools (e.g. news, events, staff)
- Enable staff in different roles at the faculty to be easily identified and contacted.
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