9/5/2019 Meeting

Notes

Profiles

Undergraduate and Professional Programs Profiles

While requesting a few updates to the Undergraduate and Professional Programs profiles, Evie expressed a few concerns with how all of the profiles are kept in a central area in the website.

Once a profile is clicked on, the subnavigation is causing confusion in that "Back to Professional Programs" links back to the main list of profiles and not back to the Undergraduate and Professional Programs area under the Students area in the website. Additionally, having the other types of profiles listed in the subnavigation on the individual profile pages is overwhelming, especially considering that the other types of profiles are not listed on each main list of profiles.

To resolve these issues, we agreed that the main list of profiles should be renamed to "Professional Programs Profiles" to make the name of the "Back to..." link more clear, and that the subnavigation should be omitted from individual profile pages.

Zane also expressed concern with having to manually add and remove the references to profiles on the Students page, on the Undergraduate and Professional Program page, and in the list of students under this page.

To resolve this, Dan and Shawn discussed changing the way that the Who We Are section works in that this sections could essentially become the place where profiles are created and organized, and the profiles could be references, or chosen, from this area and displayed on listing pages or in other designated areas throughout the website.

MD Profiles

Cassie, Dan, and Shawn met on July 16th to discuss the order that the MD profiles under the Who We Are area are displayed. We agreed that the best solution might be to divide the profiles into sections based on each student's year in the program (MS1, MS2, etc.). Dan and Shawn are looking into how to accomplish this solution.

Undergraduate and Professional Programs

Consistent Program Page

Aishina inquired about changing the items in the top navigation of the IMMB subsite to reflect the pages within this section rather than the pages within the main School of Medicine website. They're currently have "Students" and "Contact Us" pages, and they're working on an "About Us" page and a potential "Research" page.

One of two different templates are being used for each of the root-level pages for each of the professional and undergraduate programs. Because Exercise Physiology, Health Informatics and Information Management, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Physician Assistant Studies are considered "Divisions", these use a "Department" style page type. The Immunology and Medical Microbiology, Medical Laboratory Science, and Pathologists' Assistant use a landing page style page.

That said, we agreed that these page types should be more consistent. We will meet with Lindsay Pecosh to discuss this.

Campaign Page

Cassie mentioned that the Buzzfeed Quiz component probably isn't going to work due to conflict of interest among faculty. We will move forward with creating this page, keeping in mind that some sort of "quiz-like" element will be added. She tasked Zane with creating an alternative element (A video?) to help a student decide which program they may fit into.

Department of Medicine Residents Page

Vicki brought a request from Sheri Campbell to add an Instagram button with an Instragram icon to the Department of Medicine Residents page. We don't typically add social media icons to content pages throughout the website. The "Visit Our Facebook Page" button has been a topic of concern in past discussions.

Shawn suggested that the Department of Medicine Residents page become more engaging and useful (potentially using a landing page style template), thus allowing for the Connect area to be displayed on this page.

Cassie suggested that Zane can be tasked with strategizing how department pages and areas can be updated to better accommodate the information in each.

Summer 2019 (Ongoing)

In the April meeting, Cassie mentioned focusing on updating department websites and implementing her proposed content and hierarchy updates to the main School of Medicine website over the summer. In addition to this, we agreed to start thinking about what the school wants to have on the website pertaining to Welcome Week and resources for undergraduate, graduate, and MD students.