6th Student S

Owned by Paul Seiler (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Jul 14, 2015 by Anne Nelson (Unlicensed)
4 min read

Lives: In Wellington Mon-Fri with aunty and uncle and on Kapiti Coast in weekends with grandparents, Mum lives in Auckland, Dad in South Africa, S migrated to NZ a few years ago, still has friends there so Facebook useful to stay in touch.

likes Wellington; mother has tertiary qualification and has explained how uni/degrees work. Seemed very nervous to start with, while communication well. Thoughtful and well prepared despite age.

Schools: Wellington High School; Year 12; studying DDC (digital design and communications), fashion, physics, maths, english

Interests outside of school: Rock climbing (indoor and real rock), Internet for school work only, Likes cooking so watches show on You Tube

Awareness/preparedness for post-school: Started thinking about Uni in Yr10 as older brother started looking (he is now second year design student at Vic), so more aware and better informed than most Yr12s. Has not yet been on any open days or career events, as she has to ask each teacher for permission {implied it is unusual to ask/get this in Yr12?}. However, did go to Careers Expo.

Post-school options: Keen on university, especially architecture and/or design. Vic rates up there because she has accommodation here, her brother likes it and friends locally. Also considering Auckland Uni and will visit in holidays when seeing Mum (who lives up there).

Want to know from website: Wants to know about courses, what is on offer, what it involves, what she will learn, exactly what is covered. Also wants to know about the papers, what points are, and about the structure here at Vic. What are electives? In the case of Auckland Uni, she wants to know about accommodation, both costs and options available.

High level I/A: Numbered are where to find info about what you want to study, rest were to tease out understanding of the term.

  1. Faculty and schools: What is available (labs, computers, etc); faculties would be all about professors and teachers, whereas schools would be the campuses (e.g. Vivian Street)
    OR Study at Vic (equally) 

    Also interested in: Life at Vic: what it is, what it will be like
  • Other areas:
    • Current Students: Experiences they go through, what 1st year was like for me so others can benefit from an early indication/warning
    • Future students: No idea even with prompting
    • About us: overview of uni
    • Learning and teaching: what you would learn in/from courses

2nd level I/A: Numbered are where to find info about what you want to study, rest were to tease out understanding of the term.

  1. Courses or maybe degrees: Kind of like subjects at school
  • Qualifications: is the outcome, degree is what you go/work towards
  • Careers: Keeping the bigger picture in mind
  • Study area: Area you could study

To enrol: Study at Vic

Starting on the home page: Asked to find a subject or area they wanted to study

Went to Learning and Teaching, not what was expected so back out. Saw COurse FInder (in Quick Lins)

Easily worked out UG option and selected a subject "Architecture" form the drop down

Read through many of the courses with interest but probably though they were subjects (based on drop down).

Went in to one. What do points mean? Cost is important. Appreciated location and timetable information

Outline, especially prescription was useful/appropriate

Redirected to look for a subject, had to be assisted back to home page.

Used search for architecture. Entered first result, which was Faculty homepage. Then went to Study and subjects (all old style)

Interested in inter-subject credit restrictions (as she was familiar with the school equivalent)

Worked out core cf electives from written materials.

Degree page: Helped to find it

Took quite some time to read but she understood the information. Insufficient explination on what a point is. 

Would have benefited from a summary of the key information up front/on top of page

Some important info burried (if you want to be a registered architect this is five years; and entry into the second year is based on average results from first year courses)

Appreciated seeing course table that showed how each specialisation differs from the others.

 Subject selected for Treejack: Need to match up with results in the tool

  1. Architecture
  2. Media design
  3. History

Additional notes from Anne

 

Info needs:

  • Range of what’s available
  • Design and A – papers you do
  • Structure – how it works
  • Accom (if went to Akd)
  • Cost

 

Card sort 1

Chose:

F&S OR

Study at Vic (which would give you options)

Also interested in: Life at Vic (being a student)

 

What do these nav labels mean?

Current students = about current students (profile features)

Learning and Teaching = Learn from a course

Wouldn’t search – wants to see options

About us = about Vic

 

What does f&s mean?

Faculty = Professors, teachers, people

School = campus, where things are

 

Card sort 2

Courses or degrees (sees courses as similar to degrees)

then Paper

then Qualification (= what you get out of it. The outcome).

 

Careers – just to keep in mind

 

What labels mean

Programmes = unsure what it means

Subject and topic – wouldn’t click on them

 

Card sort 3

Study at Vic

AND maybe L&T if about degrees.

 

Website exploration

  1. Quicklinks > Course finder

Unfamiliar with term UG

Clicks on UG to Subject to Arch

Likes seeing courses – to see what all the options are.

 

Course page

Doesn’t know what the points mean, or co-requisites or restrictions.

Cost is useful

Name of campus could be explained (eg, Vivian St)

 

Search

Search ‘Archeture’ (corrected) > FAD > Study > Subjects

Subject page:

  • Like overview (all said this)
  • Entry requirements.
  • PG – don’t need it right now.
  • Need to explain what the points mean.