Create and publish new FMB R&S page: How to choose a GI Bill approved school

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Create and publish new FMB R&S page: How to choose a GI Bill approved school #82873

Open aprocik1 opened 6 months ago

aprocik1 commented 6 months ago

Description

We need to create and publish one new FMB R&S article for these existing benefit detail page:

Parent page: Choosing a GI Bill approved school
Child page: Principles of Excellence program

After the new R&S article is published and both of the pages above are redirected, we can archive them in Drupal.

Tasks

Step 1: Publish new family-facing page

- [x] DB: Draft page in Drupal (with support from AP, as needed) - [x] DB: Share page with BP - [ ] BP: Share page with SMEs - [ ] DB: Share page with MZ - [ ] MZ: Copyedit and publish

Step 2: Redirect old Veteran-facing page

- [ ] KOM: Create redirect ticket - [ ] DB, KOM: Align on date for redirect - [ ] KOM: Confirm crosslinks direct to new URL - [ ] KOM: Confirm new URL, navigation, and crosslinks

Criteria

[ ] We've published the new FMB R&S page
[ ] Correct breadcrumb, left navigation, and URL
[ ] Crosslink from the Veteran left navigation directs to the new family member page
[ ] All links in Drupal are updated to direct from old node / URL to new node / URL
[ ] Old Veteran-facing page has been archived in Drupal

kristinoletmuskat commented 3 months ago

@d-beyer @aprocik1 catching up on this one -- to confirm my understanding, this new R+S page about finding a GI bill school is going to apply to both veterans and family, and both hubs are going to link to it. Is that right? So the existing https://www.va.gov/education/choosing-a-school/ is being retired?

aprocik1 commented 3 months ago

@kristinoletmuskat, that's my understanding of this work. I just noticed the "choosing a GI Bill" page has this child page under it: Principles of Excellence program

I don't think we've accounted for this page in our list of tickets. Have you planned for this page in your IA thinking?

kristinoletmuskat commented 3 months ago

I have not! I'm wondering if this content will be included in the new R+S page?

aprocik1 commented 3 months ago

I quickly reviewed this page earlier today, and I think we can include the principles of excellence content on the new R&S page. Let's plan on that for now. When we get started on this work, we can pivot as needed.

aprocik1 commented 3 months ago

Accuracy update from 8/19 weekly sync with OCTO: Across all VA.gov pages and products, we need to make this change to content:

Current, inaccurate content: "Find a GI Bill approved school"
Future, accurate content: ~~"Find a GI Bill approved program at your school"~~ (reference comment from 8/21)

Decision from 8/19 weekly sync with OCTO: We'll draft one new R&S article to replace these benefit detail pages in the Veteran hub:

Parent page: Choosing a GI Bill approved school
Child page: Principles of Excellence program

After the new R&S article is published and both of the pages above are redirected, we can archive them in Drupal.

Note: Beth confirmed the Principles of Excellence program is still relevant. It's not being deprecated alongside VET TEC.

aprocik1 commented 3 months ago

@d-beyer, Beth recently updated the Survivors’ and Dependents’ Educational Assistance page as a part of the accuracy audit. She uses this content on the page:

Use the GI Bill Comparison Tool to find schools with approved programs

Can you make sure the H1 and content on our new page align with that framing?

d-beyer commented 3 months ago

@aprocik1 I've created the new R&S page. Can you take a look?

Preview: Choosing a school with GI Bill approved programs

Notes on what I changed:

I updated the necessary language around "approved programs" but it does seem that the page is about picking a school specifically, not programs, so there actually wasn't a ton of language to change.
I updated the H1 to align with that meaning. If you like this H1 I can update the spreadsheet/Mural.
I also added in the Principles of Excellence content. I added a jump to the existing mention of it (unsure if I did it correctly). It's a little awkward. If you don't think it works as-is, I think we could either hack it down or give it a separate R&S page.

aprocik1 commented 3 months ago

Thanks @d-beyer. I think we should discuss this page with Beth. We should ask her if we should be linking to WEAMS at all, since that page directs Veterans to the GI Bill Comparison Tool. And we should ask her if we can make substantive edits to the content the two pages we're combining.

If we can't make substantive edits, I think we should move the Principles of Excellence content to its own page. The current structure of this combined page confuses me.
If we can make substantive edits, I think we should explore restructuring the content on the combined page. I don't have a recommendation for that yet.

What do you think?

d-beyer commented 3 months ago

@aprocik1 Yep, I agree with that assessment.

d-beyer commented 2 months ago

Update: We discussed this with Beth on 9/3. She's going to talk to SMEs about it. Their input will determine what solution we move forward with.

aprocik1 commented 2 months ago

Update: Beth hasn't discussed this with SMEs yet. We can deprioritize this ticket for now.