A live recording of the online Creating Effective UG Degree Finder Content event. The session took place on Monday 1 November 2021.
Timings:
Introduction: Creating effective UG degree finder content - a refresher - 04:18
- What we will cover today - 04:42
Top 10 tips: A refresher on effective digital content and style guide points - 05:40
- Top 10 tips - 06:08
- Chunk your content into short paragraphs - 06:33
- Add subheadings - 07:50
- Make bulleted lists - 09:01
- Keep it plain English - 10:05
- Cut out the fluff - 10:35
- Check the style guide - 11:42
- Use 'you' and 'we' - 14:23
- Use active voice - 14:46
- Write descriptive link text - 15:37
- Provide context for your videos - 16:31
- Extra tip: Hemingway app - 17:23
Why degree finder is important - 18:38
What information should I include in my programme entries? - 20:14
- Programme introduction - overview - 21:11
- Programme introduction field - 21:31
- Miscellaneous field - 22:31
- Accreditation field - 23:02
- What you will study accordion - overview - 24:00
- Study overview field - 24:14
- Study years fields - 24:45
- Where you will study accordion - overview - 25:17
- Facilities field - 25:32
- Placements field - 26:36
- Study abroad field - 27:29
- Learning and assessment accordion - overview - 28:23
- How will I learn field - 28:31
- How will I be assessed field - 29:19
- Career opportunities accordion - overview - 29:55
- Careers field - 30:01
- Fees, costs and funding accordion - overview - 31:11
- Additional costs field - 31:19
- Fields driven by SRA / Euclid - 32:07
- UG support wiki - 32:50
Formatting your degree finder content - 33:07
- Keep working on your content - 33:22
- Improve your readability - 34:31
- Formatting your text - 35:51
- Adding subheadings - 36:12
- Creating bulleted lists - 37:13
- Adding videos - 37:35
- Creating link text - 38:18
Using GatherContent - how we'll work together - 53:21
- What we learned - 53:44
- Deadline for UG edits - 56:12
- Why GatherContent? - 56:47
- Templates and guidance - 58:09
- Roles and workflow - 59:09
- 1. Import from degree finder - 1:02:34
- 2. Review SME / school sends shareable link - 1:03:11
- 2. Review SME / SMEs send back changes - 1:04:50
- 3. Review marketing / sort single programmes - 1:05:47
- 2. Review SME / SME sign off on joint programmes - 1:07:21
- 3. Review marketing / sort joint programmes - 1:09:55
- 4. Review PSWC - 1:10:58
- 5. School - final sign-off - 1:11:38
- 6. PSWC final edits - 1:12:30
- 7. Copy to degree finder - 1:12:57
- Preview site - 1:13:13
Closing
- We're here to support you - 1:13:24
- The future of degree finder and GatherContent (it's all about change) - 1:14:41
- Additional resource - 1:16:55
- Questions - 1:18:14