Sprint notes for sprint 30

Course pages

Paul's work coding the newly designed course pages is close to completion, as is the first batch of content which is being developed. We're hoping the first pages will be ready to publish by the end of our next sprint (and we're quite excited!).

Digital content principles

As part of developing a consistent style for the University's digital content, Tasha has published six crucial digital content principles (internal only), available on our wiki pages.

A more detailed digital style guide is in the pipeline awaiting one final review.

Excellence Hub events

We've streamlined the process for adding Excellence Hub events, making it much easier for the Universities of Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and York to publicise events for high-achieving school and college students.

Currently there are 280 places available for subject taster sessions at York for students in years 7 - 11, and further sessions for sixth-formers at Sheffield and Hull. More events will be added throughout the year.

Site Manager survey

It's not too late to give us your feedback on the Web CMS! We'll keep the survey open until the end of the month, but don't delay, fill it in now!

Quick wins

Some of the smaller improvements we've made this sprint include:

• Setting up the shortcuts you'd expect to be in place - e.g. york.ac.uk/hr. This should make a significant impact on the number of 404 errors we receive each month.
• Moving more of the remaining old-style homepage layouts into the new multiple-columns format. It's so much easier to edit your columns!

And finally...

Don't forget to come to our Digital Screening and Show and Tell sessions (internal only), to learn more about what we've been up to.