Sprint notes - sprint 25

This is our second post in which we tell you about the things that we've been working on in our most recent two-week sprint.

Confirmation, Adjustment and Clearing

Tasha has been leading the team though a lot of work to improve our content for students who will be joining us after receiving their exam results. As well as work on our listings page of clearing vacancies, we've also developed new content to guide students through the confirmation process, and have worked on other supporting pages within the study site to ensure that we're presenting York in the best possible light. We've introduced a new undergraduate study landing page and have improved our content around careers and sport.

Search engine

We now have an instance of Google Custom Search Engine ready to use in case our primary search engine fails. 

York Researchers Night

Dan and Paul have been helping the Events team with the branding and launch of the website for the York Researchers Night which is coming up in September.

Course pages

We're continuing to work with an external agency on the design and content of our course pages. We've provided feedback on the first set of wireframes and will continue to work closely with them through the design phase.

Accommodation applications system

Dan has been continuing to work with IT Services and Accommodation on the design and user experience of the new system that students will use to book their accommodation.

Video captioning

Following on from a request from the Disability and Accessibility group, Paul has been looking at firming up our policy on video captions on our YouTube channel. Although a lot of our videos were already captioned, it wasn't being done as a matter of course. We've decided that from now on, everything that goes on our YouTube channel will be captioned, and we've been looking at the captioning services available that will let us do this most efficiently. See our notes on publishing video for details, along with other things to bear in mind when using YouTube.

Festival of Ideas analytics reports

Tom has worked on the analysis of the stats from this year's Festival of Ideas. We tracked a lot more data this time and made use of goals in Google Analytics so we have some good insights into what worked best when it came to getting people to actually register for events.

Show and Tell

Don't forget you can come along to our regular Show and Tell sessions to see quick presentations about what we've been up to lately and ask us questions. They're every fortnight on a Wednesday lunchtime and the next one is on 27 August.