Display Images (WIP-228) and Embed external media (WIP-230)
- 9/6/15: Called for nominations
- 12/6/15: Reminder to four faculties (three have answered)
- 18/6/15: Invited nominated people to add their requirements to this shared doc for displaying images
- 19/6/15: Invited nominated people to add their requirements to this shared doc for embedding external media
- 23/6/15: Sent reminder email to document requirements in the shared GDocs
- 1/7/15: Sent a second reminder
Content for email to request contributions
The WIPII team have almost completed the initial workshops with faculties and schools (one to go). While still synthesising the observations and preparing our report-back, a few themes have already emerged that have been requested in every workshop to date. Without concluding that these are the only areas (of course there will be many more) we know that we need more detailed requirements for these following two areas:
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| Faculty/Unit | Contact person | Communication | Nominated for Displaying images | Nominated for Embedding external media | Had their say | |||
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| Architecture and Design | Fay Julian | Kristin Svendsen | Kristin Svendsen | |||||
Education | Noeleen Williamson | Away, so forwarded to Rae Leighton Spoke to Ray and she wants to wait until Noeleen is back (15/6) | Tabitha McKenzie | |||||
| Engineering | Sue Hall | Christo Muller | Christo Muller | Yes, yes | ||||
| Graduate Research | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||
| Humanities and Social Sciences | Kristina McGuiness-King | Yes, Yes Yes, Yes Yes, yes Yes
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| Law | Carol nominated Denise Blackett for both | Denise Blackett | Denise Blackett | Yes, yes | ||||
| Science | Megan Sellers | Away, so forwarded to Johan Barnard and Sam Fisher. Megan nominated Sam Fisher for both | Sam Fisher | Sam Fisher | Yes, yes | |||
| Victoria Business School | Claire Williams | Ann Thomson and Kay de Malmanche | Ann Thomson and Kay de Malmanche | |||||
| Research centres, institutes and chairs | n/a | |||||||
| Web team | Angela Ludlow | Angela Ludlow | Yes, yes | |||||
| Wider COMT | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||
| Other CSU | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||
| Students | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Content for email to thank people for their contributions
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the requirements documents for Displaying images and Embedding external media. I found your contributions easy to understand, especially where you provided links to examples. I was pleased with how many of you had the same or similar requirements, as this builds a case to develop to some common need and benefit many users.
I have written these requirements up as user stories (expressing the description of a software feature from a user perspective) and am sharing the (self-explanatory, I hope) titles with you so you both know what I have captured, and so you can feedback to me where I may have missed or misunderstood something you said.
Note that this list does not represent a commitment to develop all these features, as that is a project management/governance decision. It is a check that I have accurately documented or expressed your requirements.
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- Displaying images: I have written five user stories:
- Upload and publish an image in one step: A drag and drop feature that lets you place an image on a page you are creating and it is uploaded in to Squiz and saved in the background.
- Resize an image easily: Many of you shared that image resizing is a challenge, so this story describes how it could be made easier. It has a linked story that is a cheat sheet resource on how to do this easier/better.
- Add a caption to an image: Without having to work in the HTML, with simple tools to reposition and preview your work.
- Publish an image alongside text: Images to illustrate a story/text block in an attractive way but easy to achieve.
- Display a collection of images: A template that makes this easy and looks great. For times when many images are appropriate.
- Embedding external media: I have written two user stories:
- Scaffold the embedding of popular external media: Make it simple to embed from the most common external media sources, while being secure. It could have a linked story that is a good practise guideline on how to do this easier/better.
- Display a collection of embedded assets: Appropriate for resource collections such as recorded lecturers, tutorials, etc.
Please come back to me if you have further questions or input.
Once again, thanks for making a contribution.