UD Guides, an internal site for advising guidelines for University Division and Students in Transition is getting a facelift. UD Guides was developed back in 2012 using WordPress and is OVPUE’s last internal WordPress site. WordPress sites require quite a bit of ongoing maintenance and this particular one was beginning to show its age. The… Read more »
Web Communications & Applications
Women in STEM Living-Learning Center Website
The new Women in STEM LLC website is a major update to Engaged Learning’s web presence for Women in STEM. The new site will replace the existing single page Women in STEM website developed by OVPUE IT in 2016. The new site features visual improvements and countless accessibility updates. The site was created by Kelsey… Read more »
Hutton Honors College Roommates Matching Application
OVPUE IT released version 1 of the Hutton Honors College Roommates Matching application last week. The tool is designed to help honors students find roommates, either in Honors Residential Communities (HRCs) or in non-honors housing. The tool allows students to share their major, their housing preferences, lifestyle information, and any additional information, then post their… Read more »
Performance & Accessibility Updates
Last quarter, we ran our first round of performance and accessibility tests on OVPUE websites using Google’s Lighthouse evaluation tool and found several websites that required attention. By making minor tweaks to the settings of individual websites or the files used for images, we were able to improve quite a few websites. This week, we… Read more »
ACP Students Application
The applications team has been working closely with Kyle (OVPUE IT support) and representatives from ACP on a new tool for monitoring ACP students throughout their application and registration process. The workflow for new students currently involves several systems with spreadsheets, local and remote databases, and hundreds of paper documents–while we can’t replace all of… Read more »
Maxwell Hall Advising Checkin
The Advising Checkin application is currently in development with an optimistic release planned in mid-January for use by University Division, Students in Transition, and Health Professions and Prelaw Center. The application will manage student arrivals for scheduled appointments (through Student Appointment Scheduler and otherwise) as well as drop-in advising. Students will be able to sign… Read more »
Performance & Accessibility Auditing for OVPUE Websites
OVPUE IT has been working on ways to continuously monitor websites and applications and establish benchmarks for metrics like performance, accessibility, search engine optimization (SEO), and usability for several years. The Lighthouse audit tool developed by Google and recently incorporated into the Google Chrome browser allows us to start the process of running regular, automated… Read more »
Explore Programs Version 4.0
Over the last three months, we’ve devoted some time to a visual and accessibility refresh of University Division’s Explore Programs tool. Usability Improvements: New “Reset” button to clear out all interests selected Indicators show when a collapsed group contains selected interests The heading of the interest selection panel updates to show how many interests are… Read more »
National Scholarships and Awards Website
The new National Scholarships and Awards website is a major update to Engaged Learning’s competitive awards web presence. The new site will replace the aging IUCARE website developed by yours truly back in 2013. The new site features major visual improvements and countless accessibility updates–in fact, it meets all accessibility guidelines available through our automated… Read more »
Completed Projects from the Third Quarter of 2018
The third quarter of 2018 was a busy one for the development team. Twelve projects were prioritized for development in June, by the end of September, we plan to have completed eight projects (two of which were prioritized by the PSC) and have made significant progress on seven others (6 of which were prioritized by… Read more »