Maps
Students generally perceived the maps as being useful, especially if needing to visit an
unfamiliar campus. However, it was noted by 10 students that it did not resolve the
chal enge of finding specific rooms within buildings.
Profile
The Profile Tab was well liked, particularly the Student Advisor information. Students liked
being able to see what information the University held about them and the idea of being
able to edit them via the Profile tab.
SPECIAL GROUP ENGAGEMENT
DVC Māori
(Rawinia & Meegan)
General Feedback
• Positive feedback on use of the name Pūaha. Curious about whether that is being used
more widely.
• Supportive of enhancing the size of the Pūaha title.
Questions
• What is happening with Awhina advisers? Can we do auto assignment of Awhina advisers?
How do we show students that this is an option if they don’t already have an Awhina
adviser? (Statutory obligation!)
o Connect Rawinia & Meegan with Adrienne McGovern-Faircloth on this.
Non-portal
• Does OES have the full list of iwi? (Meegan
thinks so .. but there are gaps in Tumu!)
• Can we add “/ Pakeha” to the New Zealand European ethnicity option?
Disability Services
(Brett)
General Feedback
• Looks great.
• Need to see how it is in terms of accessibility requirements. .
• Keen to ensure that all data is coming from appropriate and reliable systems.
o Some feedback in particular that assessments (which I noted are now out of scope)
can be fraught in this regard. Exam Scheduler is more reliable, but dates are often in
flux early on.
o
Questions
• What’s the status of testing for WCAG compliance?
• Do the Services section’s tabs present be navigation issue for keyboard navigation / screen
readers?
• What’s on the road map for the portal (esp. Maps stuff. .)?
• What happened to the idea of a digital version of the ID card? Is this of limited value now
because a flat barcode would only be usable by the Library?
• What is the adviser indicator column? (Is it actually a meaningful piece of information to
display to students?)
UniQ
General Feedback
• Looks really good.
• Like the key dates!
• Services looks similar to catalogues of scholarships and clubs, which is nice.
• Wondered whether we would repeat the same addresses or phone numbers if they were
captured as, say, both physical and postal address.
Ngai Tauira
General Feedback
• Generally looking cool.
• A better look than the existing MyTools. Would be great to see other systems like
Blackboard updated like this too.
• Having the schedule front and centre is good.
Karen Davis
General Feedback
• Seems to be a lot missing from Student Learning
• Recruitment & Orientation category – these functions no longer sit together – should this be
removed considering the MVP/Release 0 doesn’t include future students?
Questions
• Do analytics exist for searches run in the services section?
Other
• FYI Work is happening around preferred last name
Appendix
Suggestions, Iterations and Comments
Students
Home Tab:
• Add outline or background to tabs so they stand out
• Announcements could drop down and show the full announcement
• Add ability to synch schedule to personal calendar
• Reduce size of news and events
• Increase size of schedule on laptop version
Study Tab:
• Add ability to see points per course
• Add “What if” and Required Points from MyDegree
• Show courses for other trimesters in the study year
• Show all years grades
• Add Student Learning/Academic support to Tools & Resources
• Add a grades tool/link to convert a percentage to a grade
• Include a GPA calculator
• Add ability to select course and be taken to course description
• Link to course coordinator
• Add academic transcripts
Services Tab:
• Add ability to search on keywords or like terms
• Add ability to pin services to the top of the page or have the top ten used services
Maps Tab:
• Add ability to find directions to rooms within buildings
Profile Tab:
• Add ability to edit information via Student Portal
• Add Pakeha to ethnicity
DVC Māori
Change Requests
Before Go-Live
• Changes from ‘Your’ to ‘My’ wil need changes to te reo translations as well.
• Our style guidelines specify equal weight for te reo Māori translations, and we should be
respecting this. The revitalization of the language and the political statement here is more
important than aesthetics!
o Can potential y live with the slight imbalance in some places, but it is actual y pretty
egregious in the ‘Your Schedule’ type headings (which have both larger English and
smaller te reo than other headings).
Roadmap
• Can we get Faculty names in te reo?
• Might be possible for the likes of degree and majors in future too, although no complete lists
are available as of yet.
• Can we get the campus names in te reo, where applicable?
• Can Tools have te reo translations as well (especially if these translated names already
exist)?
No Action
• Pluralise ‘Qualification
s’? Either dynamically or across the board.
o Either way, te reo translation should reflect this.
Disability Services
Change Requests
Before Go-Live
• Show Course Code on Current Courses. Ideally CRN as well, because this is often important
when students are contacting staff for information/support.
o Just Course Code should be sufficient for Results.
• Fix references to Disability Services in the Service Catalogue (mis-labelled once as Disabilities
Services and once as Disability Support Services).
• Service titles should link to the same place as CTAs (e.g. Learn More). Much better for
screen readers, etc. And general usability, frankly.
Unsure
• Add a warning on the calendar (at least when downloading?) that dates are subject to
change.
• Faculty name should link to their website.
Roadmap
• Current Courses could be a very busy section. Consider organising by trimester / part of
term. Or splitting (based on course dates) between genuinely current and future courses.
• Courses look like links — would be useful if they linked to Blackboard.
• Should Course Coordinator names embed mailto links?
Richer map functionality.
Link lecture/similar info in calendar to a map.
UniQ
Change Requests
Before Go-Live
• Student photo placement and size looks funny. Might be better to be left-aligned.
Roadmap
• Can the Services section please include links to rep groups like UniQ? (This could be a new
“clubs and rep groups” category.)
• Would be useful to be able set favourites in the Tools bar. (Like in Staff MyTools.)
Calendar customisation: adding own events, expanding the size of the widget within the window,
and changing between Sunday and Monday was first day of week.
