Meeting 12/3/2008

Requirements List to Date

Internal Audiences

• Login protected customizable personal page
  • Jobs database (students)
  • Banner access to academic records, scheduling (students, faculty)
  • Banner access to budgets (staff)
  • Banner access to HR (all)
  • Customizable subscriptions to specific information (e.g., events) via RSS (all)
  • Portal to Facebook, iTunes, Yelp, Flickr, etc. (all)

External Audiences

• Offer main page + main admissions page in several languages
• Tell the story: pragmatic idealism
• Sharpen brand focus: be the solution
• We're not DLI/military/only a language school
• Student Chinese blogger --> made impact --> make more/system alignment
• Multilingual
• Loading page as welcome
• People/story first --> then MIIS website
• Reorg
• CAREER = return on investment?
  • Students are interested in financial aid, job placement statistics, etc.
  • They're going to spend 2 years in Monterey & pay thousands of $$ -- what will they get in return?
  • What kind of monetary situation will the be in 10 yrs down the road?
  • Highlight student resumes, alumni statistics, reputation of graduates
  • When you're 55, what will you have done in your life?
    • Number of refugees helped
    • Number of communities developed
  • Among the lowest default rate in the nation

Both

• Robust calendar interface
• Consistent navigation - simplified navigation
  • Breadcrumbs
• Support delivery to mobile devices

Survey

Here are the survey results: https://surveys.middlebury.edu/report/133248/-1/d2af

And here is the link to the survey itself-- tell all your friends, and if you are in a high traffic office like Rafael's, please consider making up cards to hand out with this information. https://surveys.middlebury.edu/survey/133248/e8df

Focus Groups

December

• Current students (expected to increase with implementation of Banner)
• Faculty

January

• New students (orientation)
• Staff groups
  • Admissions, records, financial aid
  • Advancement and communications
  • HR, student services, school staff
  • IT, library, TLC
  • Direct reports + deans

Off-Campus Audiences

• Prospective students (esp. international students & their parents)
• Donors
• Alumni
• Researchers
• Press

Focus Group Questions

• Questions should mirror the survey questions.
• What do you use the MIIS website for? What do you like about the site? Why?
• What are some other websites that you like? What do you like about them?
• Possible scavenger hunt questions to test accessibility.

Using the Site as a Portal

Blogs

• Provide students with a blogging system
• Likely that they will provide vivid pictures of their life at MIIS through these unofficial promotional tools

Blog Aggregator

• http://montereyinstitute.wordpress.com

Student Portal

• http://www.insidecolby.com

Additional Items to Consider

• Need to establish style guide for website so all future pages look similar, don't have competing information
  • ex: 2 dueling calendars, 2 issue sites
• Establish email connection between Recruiting & Anne Marie
  • once a week email detailing changes being made to the site
  • maybe use Yammer instead?