In September 2016 Cardiff University launched a new version of our undergraduate course finder, powered by programme data from our internal student record system.
The aim was to create a single source of course information for course approval, as marketing to prospective students, to be sent out to offer-holders as part of their contract and as a reference for current students.
Aside from the technical hurdles we had to overcome, our experience delivering this project highlights many of the challenges facing University digital teams: maintaining a single source of information, governance and compliance issues, organisational change, cross-University collaborative working, and meeting the user needs of prospective students in a competitive marketplace.
Summary:
- Title: Realising the Vision of a Single Source of Course Information
- Type: Plenary
- Hashtag: #P6
- Speaker: Graham Bird, Jenni Taylor & David Hopkins, Cardiff University
- Date and time: 11.00-11.30 on Wednesday 12 July 2017
- Venue: Keynes Lecture Theatre 1 (LT1)
Additional resources:
- Twitter archive: archive of tweets (hosted on wakelet.com)
- Video: IWMW 2017 – P6: Realising the Vision of a Single Source of Course Information (hosted on youtube.com)
- Sketch notes: IWMW17 Graham Bird, Jenni Taylor, David Hopkins · mearso (hosted on mearso.co.uk)
- See slides available on Slideshare
