Page types - schools

Course and staff profile listings

Enable people to filter course and profile listings easily.

Purpose

A listing page serves to:

  • provide an easily sortable list of things such as courses and profiles
  • showcase relevant content where suitable, but primarily make content easy to find through searching and filtering a list.
Screenshot showing a listing template's sections

Undergraduate course listing

Audience focus: prospective undergraduates and their parents

View example

SectionBlock optionsContent focus
Lead
(Initial hook, create a strong visual impact)
  • Heading feature panel
  • Standard feature panel
  • Video about undergraduate courses and future prospects
  • Strong lead image
  • Student or graduate profile
 
Short intro and ‘see also’ links
  • Text panel with see also links
  • Optional - use cautiously and only if necessary as additional text could get in the way of the primary task of searching for a course
  • Where specialist course need a very short introduction, joint honours degree (allows for only a couple of short sentences and a maximum of 4 ‘see also’ links)
Listing
(Dynamically generated list)
  • Course listing
  • Shows basic course information
Tertiary content
(Popular content based on analytics, but not key task) 
  • Featured links (2,3 or 4)
  • Feature panel
  • Optional content
  • Links to relevant course related information
  • Featured student profile
  • Featured course

Staff profile listing

Audience focus: prospective postgraduates, external audiences - other academics, partnerships

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Creating a staff profile

SectionBlock optionsContent focus
Lead
(Initial hook, create a strong visual impact)
  • Standard feature panel
  • Video or story about an academic - eg Think Kent or news story
 
Short intro and see also links
  • Text panel with see also links
  • A short introduction providing the supportive, international and community aspects of the school
  • Link to UG, PG and alumni profiles
Listing
(Dynamically generated list)
  • Staff profile listing
  • Shows basic staff information. 
    Research interest keywords are also viewable on the listing.

  • Default tab format to create consistent labelling - 'Academic staff', 'Research students', 'Technical', 'Support and administration staff'.

  • Default A-Z listing of 'Academic staff' that can be filtered using subcategories in various ways.

    Frequent filters are:
    'Heads and directors'
    'Research'
    'Associate and assistants', 
    'Sessional', 
    'Honorary' (if they have content, otherwise listed on a separate page),
    'Emeritus' 
    'Visiting'
    'Supervisors'

    If you need a specific subcategory added, you can request it through your content editor.


Tertiary content
(Useful additional content) 
  • Featured links (2,3 or 4)
  • Links to relevant postgraduate information
  • Links to lists of staff that don't need individual profile pages, often 'Honorary' staff
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