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CATEGORY |
ACTION |
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Overall |
FIT Indicator on every page |
On every page there will be an indicator for what you are F, I or T; should know that dates differ |
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Review Layout |
Lots of empty real estate; some titles on inforpages and some bubbles have extra white space; |
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Review includes color: should we be employing color as a way of defining shafts |
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Reposition "Apply Now" for best visibility/Review for making larger |
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Implement stylesheets to increase control over font sizes and styles |
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FIT Radio buttons |
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Sizing Tags on images to improve download time |
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Review horizontal scroll--does it work in "My Life" section |
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Little pictures look like links |
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Remove directional arrows |
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Headers need to be redesigned |
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Review effectiveness of News and Calendar on infopages |
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Applications |
Develop Content Manager |
For date maintainance in visiting shaft infopages |
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For departments to upload changes to bridge pages that goes to an e-mail alias devoted to this |
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For links, as in MyUB, so that we can enter and/or check links |
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Review Personalization |
Should it be more friendly--like Personalize now, go to this link then what do you want now |
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Print Page/Text only function |
Needs to made available |
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Special Searches |
Add feature that could search bridge page descriptions and bring up majors in the same place it brings up inforpage search results. |
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Method for Multimedia |
A place on infopage that will appear when appropriate that is readily identifiable as a multimedia thing--standard template for a popup window |
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Web Cams |
Student Union, commons, football stadium |
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Academic Areas of Interest |
Reconfigure the list, adding major, concentration, minor information |
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After customizing, affirmation appeas @ top of box to let you know something happened |
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"Ask me now" should appear in place of "ask me later" |
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Remarketing Set up |
Have pdf's of information most requested, students choose it and based on what they choose we can do follow up |
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Customized Brochures |
Database chunks of copy, then have students choose the content that interests, then pull it all together and send it in an e-newsletter, then use this info to remarket |
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Content |
Review UB Fact Sheet |
Fronting the Future needs to be reviewed and revised to reflect the current stats, more dynamic presence |
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Spash Page |
"How do I use this site" feature should be developed |
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Top Ten things users look for |
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Revaluate real estate on front page, maybe more coaching words |
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Interntional or Transfer or both |
How do we deal with students who are international and not freshmen |
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Insert contact information |
On splash page, on visiting pages, on contact page (Admissions' address) |
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Academic Department Info |
Syllabi, etc |
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My Life section |
Does the horizontal thing work |
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Develop Virtual Tour |
To reflect the needs of who students who desire an asynchronous, hip, customizable view of UB |
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Divide the "Learning" Shaft |
Too big and encompasses too much--maybe split into a learning section and a support for learning section |
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Maybe this would give us an opportunity to add some interesting things like videos and better "selling" blurbs |
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Redo Faq "Living" |
Decide how to better arrange this so it's not so combersome |
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International Infopages |
Concerted effort to pull in the International Admissions people to get the ball rolling |
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Build Grad Admissions |
Start thinking Bridge Pages, and start conceptualizing where we want to go with this |
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Need to Review Photos |
Every photo should project the message of that infopage |
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Faculty Videos |
Assemble and place |
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Quicktime VR shots |
Apartments, alumni arena, gym, football field, hi-tech classrooms, dorm rooms, CCR |
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Add College Guide section |
Benchmark whether we should build/add a College Guide section to the site for prospectives that is about general college resources |
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Videos of Students |
Honors, International, Out of State |
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Additions to Learning |
Stress quality of faculty, Chancellor's awards, Excellence in Teaching |
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Display a sampling of syllabi from interesting Freshman courses |
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Direction |
Punch up, make friendly |
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DevelopOutcomes Section |
Real people who got great jobs, positioning/transitioning yourself for grad school |