2016-08-30 Team meeting notes

Date

30 Aug 2016

Attendees

Discussion items

Item	Who	To discuss	Notes
Finding Course Info - staff	Jane Young (Unlicensed)	Engineering staff couldn't find where to see the course information when they were guiding students.	Staff are used to how the pages used to be so I think this is a case of not being familiar with the new content. I don't think staff are being given a heads up on the change. When sending out the final check and release emails I do tell them to let their staff know. However, I will make this more detailed and provide them with an email to send out to their staff.
Finding Course Info - students	Jane Young (Unlicensed)	Based on our survey and the feedback from Engineering students may not be clearly identifying the next step. This could be possibly be solved through design or content tweaks.	It would be a good idea to do testing ahead of making any major changes so we aren't making our corrections based on assumptions. These subject blocks are richer than they initially would be. It could be that pushing the content down further is causing an issue. Is the 'Undergraduate degrees' heading correct or should this be more action oriented e.g. choose your qualification. Shoudl the word 'degrees' be repeated rather than just in the one heading Change the button text to be more of a call to action - it could up to 11 words in this button Under the 'Undergraduate degrees' heading put a descriptive sentence in about what a degree page contains e.g. entry and degree requirements, courses you need to take to complete the qualification. Should we change the tab order so that Study Options is the last tab? We purposefully avoided mentioning courses sooner so it might take a bit more rework if we want to introduce this earlier. Students do search for the word 'courses' often but they don't necessarily know what that means. Are they not seeing the button at all?
PG-only subjects	Paul	Do PG-only subjects get covered on the area of study branch/url? Or can we have them on the PG subject branch/url? And what does this mean for the writing?	From last week, but we probably need Jane to make a decision or at least be present cons we wouldn't be able to have them as related areas of study Related areas of study are an ug feature - jane Help people find subjects when we call them different things from other universities - Paul AOS - would have to have two different patterns for the Navigation page On the homepages you could have an Area of Study and subject looking the same but acting differently pro PG pages - you will have the 'at a glance'
In page links	Andrew Bredenkamp and Mike Clarke	Automatically generating related links from in page content. e.g. http://www.victoria.ac.nz/study/preparing/parents-whanau Open up a javascript console and run this code: We could potentially add this script in as a widget (with appropriate styling), removing the need for editors to manually add in links. It will be pretty trivial to implement in squiz, but needs some discussion about how we integrate it with existing related links/content.	Automatically turn all 'A' html tags into related links and documents. If we were doing this for all then this would save a lot of time. If we are only going to do this on some pages it may not be worth the downside of having a jquery (which doesn't work across all devices) Andrew Bredenkamp do discuss with Tash Davey (Unlicensed) as she will have a better idea of how often this is used 06 Sep 2016
Enhancements	Jane	Talk about anything new on the enhancements list Enhancement requests for study areas and UG degree pages Paul has been parking ideas (his and from other people) in two epics, one for improving AoS pages and the other for ug degrees.
Blockers	All	Team to raise any blockers not already covered