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WIPII high level update | Chrissi Dean | - A reminder of the aims of the WIPII project and the five phase delivery approach were presented
- WIPII has completed seven faculty and school workshops, and the next steps are functional workshops which will be open to staff across all faculties and schools
- Some analysis work is currently underway on how to improve staff profiles
- Other scope areas are still being explored, covering postgraduate, research centres and student information
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Subjects - taxonomy | Paul Seiler | - The current focus in this area is subjects, with the initial structure of Subjects > Programmes > Courses
- Charles enquired how majors and subjects are related
- Subjects were described as disciplines for marketing/recruitment
- Majors are more an academic construct for study
- There is a large number of subjects (120+), and the number varies from which source you review
- Kristina noted that the calendar should be definitive subject list, with specialisations within this
- To understand whether future students can understand the groupings, they have been asked via Careers Advisors to complete an exercise sorting subjects into categories
- Future student version includes 40 subjects
- Staff version includes 120 subjects
- A newly proposed structure of Topic > Subject > Programme > Course is being proposed
- Charles noted this could be an opportunity to present UG and PG programmes in those areas
- It was noted that having related subjects to improve search would help draw out the related disciplines
- The group fed back the topic example catered for undergraduate audiences well, but some content may not be of interest to international and postgraduates
- Kristina noted that the owners of the content for subjects should be retained within the faculties, and that some subjects were owned across faculties
- Ownership needs to be clear
- Multiple authors of subject pages can make content and tone inconsistent
- It was discussed whether the term topic would confuse students alongside the other academic terms, and whether it could be an internal reference and hidden externally
- Adrienne noted some programmes were not associated with subjects, such as the MBA
- Paul confirmed these are currently defined as subjects on the web, and further consideration would be required on how to represent these
- Additional information around distance learning, quality of teaching, rankings etc were also discussed and where these would most appropriately fit
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Subjects - template | Anne Nelson | - The subject page purpose and target audiences were presented
- It was raised whether our current subject pages provide what is required on all areas of consideration and are they focussed on the audience needs
- The future state for subjects were put forward, with an improved emphasis on the audience, careers and using plain language
- There were suggestions to improve design by including more opportunities for video, visuals, infographics
- External examples of content and layout were reviewed for comparison
- The Victoria topic page example which had be circulated pre-meeting, was referenced with the following questions:
Will this approach be more effective than the current subject pages? What flow-on effects would it have – eg: subject paras have been rewritten: should we change how we write in GUS? Who would be the ‘owner’ of the page? Who might manage the content? Who would provide the features?
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