{"id":205,"date":"2018-06-14T22:55:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T22:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/blog\/digitalteam\/?p=205"},"modified":"2018-06-15T08:01:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T08:01:41","slug":"weeknotes-8-sprint-7-learning-is-a-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/digitalteam\/2018\/06\/14\/weeknotes-8-sprint-7-learning-is-a-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknotes 8, sprint 7: learning is a marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/oneweb-show-and-tell-course-pilot-tickets-47046236560\">Register your place for our show and tell<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What we\u2019ve done <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Governance can be a hard sell, so this week I wanted to share some of the practical thinking about how we\u2019ve experimented with the governance of our course pages. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why do we need governance of course pages? <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Course pages are complicated in terms of governance. There are a lot of fingers in the pie so to speak. We all tend our course pages in a different way and from speaking to our stakeholders, we all wish that we had clarity of roles and responsibilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-206\" src=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/06\/fingers-in-the-pie-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/06\/fingers-in-the-pie-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/06\/fingers-in-the-pie-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/06\/fingers-in-the-pie-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/06\/fingers-in-the-pie.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Fingers in the pie. Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedrum.com\/\">The Drum<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Believe it or not, governance can help us to: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">prioritise stuff so we can move much faster <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">deliver the things we need to deliver <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Provide assurance that we\u2019re achieving our objectives<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What we\u2019ve done: <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week, our Single Points of Contact (SPOCs) coordinated the course content that we had provided to them, within GatherContent workflow. Overall, more than half of the faculties\u2019 SPOCs completed the workflow process with no major issues, and submitted the content for some further refinements. Shout out to Medicine and FEE who speeded through the workflow like nobody\u2019s business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/06\/gathercontent-ready-for-fact.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/06\/gathercontent-ready-for-fact.png 851w, https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/06\/gathercontent-ready-for-fact-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/06\/gathercontent-ready-for-fact-768x608.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Our templates in GatherContent post fact-check amends<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We built a RAD<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We also completed the technical build of our radical (RAD) design prototype where, on this occasion, the design is entirely content-driven. This is the first time that our developer and UX Designer was able to work on a content-first approach template.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are many benefits for content-first approach, such as:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">websites are built around information, instead of just eye-catching designs and visuals <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">it encourages organic traffic to the page through good Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) linking because of the quality of the information <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">much more beneficial for branding &#8211; the design only enhances and creatively displays the information about the brand, not the other way round <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">it prevents back and forth, time-consuming corrections having to be made to the design, which is more costly<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">it makes responsive design significantly easier to plan ahead and implement<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the process encourages unique and original design<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/06\/what-our-staff-and-students-say-1024x464.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/06\/what-our-staff-and-students-say-1024x464.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/06\/what-our-staff-and-students-say-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/06\/what-our-staff-and-students-say-768x348.png 768w, https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/06\/what-our-staff-and-students-say-620x280.png 620w, https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/06\/what-our-staff-and-students-say.png 1381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-size: 10pt\">One of our depth components &#8211; without giving too much away!<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What we\u2019ve learnt <\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><strong>Governance <\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">communication is the single biggest way to improve governance. People working in silos often don\u2019t communicate effectively across silos. Containing everything in the one workflow programme is good, as everyone can see what has been going on <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as there is no institutional workflow, it was difficult for us and our SPOCs to identify whose responsibility it is to check what, and in what order. This is why it is really important that we truly have single points of contact i.e. the ability to liaise with one single person<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">some of our SPOCs found it hard to know who to assign the bits of text to for checking, and also felt that marketing should be involved in this process: perhaps as an originator (pre-draft stage) or at the end of the process. We had many conversations about it this week and we agree with these comments. As a result, we are going to make a change to the workflow and put it forward as one of our recommendations. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">making it clear how to turn off the email alerts would be useful &#8211; not everyone needs to receive an alert after every comment is made. Perhaps this is a unique problem if there are two fact checkers. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in some of the faculties, especially where there were more than two fact-checkers, there was lack of clarity over the roles and responsibilities. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">there were some inaccuracies in the existing course content currently live on our website, which we have now corrected <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Thanks to all our SPOCs and fact-checkers <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We want to put in a special thanks for all our SPOCs and fact-checkers for their diligent work and fast turnaround. And especially for getting involved and being a good sport, by dedicating time to help us out during a very busy time of year. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Thank you all<\/strong>, we\u2019re not taking it for granted. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What we\u2019re doing next <\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><strong>Show and tell <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/oneweb-show-and-tell-course-pilot-tickets-47046236560\">Show and Tell<\/a> for the University community will take place on <strong>Tuesday 3 July at Highfield Campus<\/strong>. Places are limited, and available on a first come, first served basis <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/oneweb-show-and-tell-course-pilot-tickets-47046236560\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">via this link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Build and design <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019re creating dummy pages to allow for user journeys and testing via our prototype website.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019re also completing the final touches on all the remaining prototype sample pages so we can test them with users. <\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>User research<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Our sample has been verified and we\u2019re gearing up for tests next week. We need to build many surveys in our testing platform and these will be administered online. \u00a0We\u2019re also carrying out card sort and tree tests on the navigation with our target audience in schools.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s all for this week. Have a great weekend and thanks for reading. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#x1f44d;&#x1f3fb;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Register your place for our show and tell What we\u2019ve done Governance can be a hard sell, so this week I wanted to share some of the practical thinking about how we\u2019ve experimented with the governance of our course pages. Why do we need governance of course pages? 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