VIDEOS
All videos need titles. Only use a caption if you think it's needed to explain further. Keep them short and avoid using questions. Only use the name in the caption.
Use these kinds of titles as a guide:
Researching at Victoria’s Marine lab
Building games with industry experts
Studying where New Zealand law is made
Using IT to innovate
Caption - Professor Benoit Aubert, Head of School of Information Management, says organisational culture is the most important thing to enable innovation.
or if they don't quite work you can deviate.........
Fourth year student’s project— Too Crowded
Creativity in maths
Choose a still for the cover. Titles cannot sit over a face.
TRIPLE CROWN
This block has been approved by the powers. You can tweak it slightly if you need to.
“You’ll be joining the Victoria Business School—one of just 73 business schools worldwide that hold the 'Triple Crown' of international business education accreditations. You can be confident your degree will stand up against the best around the world.
Find out more about accreditations and what they mean for you [http://www.victoria.ac.nz/vbs/about/welcome/accreditation]”
[insert three logos from uploads box on Economics and Finance About page]
QUOTES AND STORIES
Use the best quote you can find to illustrate/colour what you are writing about, regardless of whether you are using the person on the People and Stories page.
HOWEVER you need to have at least one quote on the Topic /About page that does link to the P and S page. Otherwise the reader may miss the P and S page altogether.
If your quote came from a story you are using on the People and Stories page - add the text [Full story] (in square brackets) after the attribution so they know to add this link.
All staff quotes must link to either the full story on People and Stories, or if you aren't using them there, link it to the staff profile. (choose the best one and copy the link in). An example is
Professor Peter Whiteford, Lecturer in Media Studies
[Linkto:http://www.victoria.ac.nz/seftms/about/staff/peter-whiteford] Staff profile
Remember to check whether the person has more than one staff profile and use the best one. Peter, for example, has a second that is empty except for contact details, despite it being the 'high' position.
All staff stories on the P and S pages must also link to their profile. This means that for a staff member quoted on the About page you might link to the full story and then from there to the profile.
Use of speech marks in stories
Use the pattern that Vic uses in publications. Don't go back and change loaded pages now - this will be sorted later.
- If the story is entirely in the first person then don’t use any speech marks.
- If the story is a mixture of narration and quotes then – use quote marks as normal:
- Speech marks at start of each paragraph/quote
- If the quote runs over two paragraphs, don't close it at the end of the first para, but do add speech marks at the beginning of the second para, then close them at the end.
"Victoria was amazing.
"I really loved it." - If your two paragraph quote is broken by a subheading, treat it as two separate quotes. ie close both paras.
This should be the approach regardless of whether the page has a mixture of stories with different approaches.
Naming conventions for quotes and stories.
HYPHENS
Use a hyphen when a noun follows:
an up-to-date collection
a state-of-the-art museum
BUT:
The collection is up to date.
Their studio is state of the art.
USE OF CAPITALS WHEN TALKING ABOUT SUBJECTS
Use caps when you are referring to anything which is an area of study or a subject. Use lower case when you are referring to the noun in a general sense. It's true that sometimes it's not that clear which you are doing - in this case just use your best judgement!
eg
Geophysics explores the atmosphere and the ground beneath our feet—combining maths and physics with the outdoors. You'll get a solid grounding in the basics of Earth Sciences, Maths and Physics, and then choose to focus on either Meteorology or Solid Earth.
If you want to learn about the Earth and how it works, while working outdoors and honing your skills in maths and physics, Geophysics—Solid Earth is a good choice for you.
FUN FACTS - SOURCES
- We name sources for fun facts except those that don’t need it (eg the number of minutes it takes to walk somewhere)
- We include the date
- If there is a suitable site to link to, we just name the organisation the fact came from and then link to the page (or a pdf if necessary)
- If there is not a website, we include just the name of the organisation and the year, or the publication as per APA style eg Tourism NZ, 2015, Tourism in Aotearoa Today (there will be very few if any of these)
Egs
One in fifteen
Number of working New Zealanders employed in the tourism industry
One in fifteen
Number of working New Zealanders employed in the tourism industry
Tourism NZ, 2015, Tourism in Aotearoa Today (if no link)
30 to 50 trillion
The number of bacteria in a human approximately equals the number of cells in that body—about 30 to 50 trillion.
30 to 50 trillion
The number of bacteria in a human approximately equals the number of cells in that body—about 30 to 50 trillion.
ScienceNews, February 6, 2016 (if no link)
Sources for rankings
We don't need to name the source when talking about the PBRF rankings. i.e. Victoria is top in NZ for research quality. (you must say research quality, not just research)
We do need to obviously name the source in the body text when talking about QS rankings.
Decision note from Tania:
I’ve had a chat to Tash about this and then Alida. I think you just carry on as you are and don’t reference the ranking except in fun facts. We haven’t done so in the past on the website re body copy and that information is there to find if people want to look for it. I also don’t think adding PBRF (or in full) adds a lot of value, as most people have no clue what this is either way (especially our main audience of school leavers).
Funfact example text
Number one - Victoria University is ranked number one for overall research quality in Biomedical Science out of all New Zealand universities by the Performance Based Research Fund.
META DATA FOR PROGRAMME PAGES
From now on please write a 160 character meta description for the degree pages. Try to include explore Vic Uni now but if you don't have enough space cut it out.
CENTURIES
The style for the website is to use the numerals for centuries. (agreed with Elizabeth and Tania)
ie Explore 21st century art.......not Explore twenty-first century art.