Kia ora koutou,
An exciting new Te Rua Makerspace content block has been added to the Library homepage. For visual balance a ‘Search our collections’ block has also been created, and old favourite Exam papers has been reinstated.
This change will help promote Te Rua Makerspace‘s excellent resources and creative events.
Ngā mihi,
Leah
At the Aropapaki workshops, the Future Learning team mentioned several times that surveys have found students don’t like/won’t scroll down pages to find information. For this reason, I’m concerned that the Citations and Referencing block, and the AskLIVE button are near the bottom of the page. These are key resources for our students and we’re making them hard to access. Can we rearrange the order of the blocks so they’re easier to access?
e.g. Swap “Search Our Collections” (which is on the left hand side anyway) with “Citations and Referencing”
My other question is whether the boxes can be more dynamic. e.g. Perhaps the COVID box can be at the bottom while we’re on Level 1, or the Exam Papers could come up to the top as we approach exams. I’m not sure how that gels with best practice with web design though.
I agree with Fiona. It would be great to have citations and referencing in the top row and AskLive in a more prominent position. Perhaps AskLive could be moved to a separate grey box beneath the menu on the left?
Margaret
I agree with both of the above.
There is a lot of Asklive traffic related to the Citations and Referencing information so it would be great to see that return to a higher level please.
Kim
Yes, I agree – AskLIVE and the Citations and referencing block need greater prominence.
John
NB: the asklive button on the library home page is part of a panel of “need more information?” rather than an asklive content block itself – these are consistently found at the bottom of the page under the content blocks in the UC template (assumes you haven’t found what you needed in the page above and now you’d like some more info – we elected to have asklive as our method of finding out more information). We can look at adding AskLIVE as a block on the home page if there is enough interest (could replace “search our collections”). We (web content group) initially dismissed this as we wanted to stick with just 2 rows of blocks to avoid too much scrolling (3 are now necessary for COVID and Te Rua Makerspace) and figured it had sufficient coverage elsewhere (support menu and support page as a block, on the contact us page, on the stay connected page and linked to from the library hours block).