Overview
The new undergraduate recruitment content will replace the existing subject and degree content on the study tab of Faculty and School sites as well as in homesite. This content is in a new custom mobile first repository which is neither housed on homesite nor within the Faculty and School sites. Both the Faculty and Schools and homesite will have navigation to the new areas of study and degrees repository.
The new pages have been built in Angular and use an API to draw information from Squiz and banner. There will be new URLS for this content and old URLs will be redirected. The content has been tested both by Planit and the project team across various devices and browsers as well as the XXXXX screenreader.
The content on the international hub won't be replaced until all the new undergraduate recruitment content is in place. For international students we need to included additional information around admission requirements, different contact details and warnings when a qualification may not be available or relevant to an international student. For these reasons it is easiest to delay the go live.
Jane Young (Unlicensed) We need to be sure that the new pages aimed at domestic students are not too misleading for any 'lost' international students.
Tania Hockings (Unlicensed), Andrew Bredenkamp and I propose that home site be the 'source' for International unless the material we require is not there and is only available on the faculty or school site. Whatever instance of these old pages is left on, it can only be archived once International has the new content and the switcher.
Nathan Irwin had requested a column showing which redirects must be done at the go-live and which could be done at a latter date. Following discussion with Andrew and Tania it was decided that all really should be done at the same time and that the 'spreading of the work' is already handled by the 'multiple bundled releases'. Restating, all Squiz and url managment work listed below should be done when the topic and degree bundle goes live.
Prior to the first release of topic and degree pages we should:
- Polish the AoS groupings:
- Make updates to home site navigation/overview page, as listed in WIP-876
- On the home site navigation/overview page: Ensure subject-level links swap to AoS-level links whenever a new AoS page goes live.
- On each/any/all new AoS page: Ensure that in the related AoS we have the 'explore AoS' button live (and subject links disabled) when the related AoS is also live as a new page. This means that when a new AoS page goes live all other live AoS pages that list this new AoS as 'related' have the appropriate behaviour in their related areas of study elements.
- Ensure that users can't (out of curiosity) see 'draft' content by changing the url in production.
- Communicate with the key stakeholders for these pages, and wider University (e.g. ITS).
- Ensure that our GSA and external search engines are able to (or have) been informed/updated.
- Embed the feedback survey widget in each (area of study and degree) page.