testing centre

CRITICAL SERVICES: (Banner, Moodle, Wireless, Internet, Telephony)

• Some students in the Testing Centre experienced intermittent error messages in Moodle this afternoon.  We have changed out a network device that may have been causing the problem, and will be monitoring Moodle closely when the Testing Centre opens tomorrow morning.

KPI SPOTLIGHT:

Anticipating the need to re-develop the University homepage, we have been collecting some data to better understand the needs of those using our site.  The “heatmap” below was generated over 3 days of activity in March (17,352 clicks). Much of this data aligns with areas we are already planning to address.  A few highlights:

• The search box is well used, which could be a symptom of poor information architecture, or habitual user behaviour
• The direct links by demographic in the “Apply Now” section is well visited, however the award offer beside it is almost never interacted with
• Current Students and Faculty & Staff tabs in the lower quadrant are well-used and could be used as justification for a current student / employee portal (intranet) – to better focus our public website content.
• “Services for Students” is well visited, even with lower positioning and size relationships to other elements on the page.
• Our social media links in the footer are poorly visited.
• The flexible messaging area graphic is heavily interacted with; people engage often with the slideshow format.

SERVICE IMPROVMENTS:

We have engaged an instructor from Lethbridge College to provide training for interested faculty and staff on Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.)  We have completed three courses so far and the feedback has been extremely positive.  We have included a few of the comments from participants below, as well as the scorecard showing top marks for the course evaluation.

“Good instructor; made course more fun. Thanks!”

“Excellent course – I learned lots of little tricks even though I’d taken other basic courses.”