Project scopes

[afm-sayem]

In this ticket, we will discuss the core features that are needed to be built for IUT's website. Please add your suggestions.

[Ysajid]

Will it be a static website for IUT informations? Can't we make it a LMS also like Edomodo , Schoology

Features including

• Discussion via chatting/commenting
• Feedback on classes
• Course repo (plan, purposes, materials etc.)
• Posting on course repo [like Google Classroom
• Sharing study materials
• Notice updates
• Building an API for further development [e.g android]
• Interface for ftp access

[meftasadat]

Very good idea. However, we have to differentiate two things,

• The core website
• The digital learning tool IMO, urgent work is needed on the core. @Ysajid the digital learning tool you are talking about is something awesome to have for any university, but first we need to do something about the core.

[Ysajid]

for the core part we need to

• Design must be improved
• sending notices in our iut mail addresses
• facilitating notice update system for the admin (i don't know the current system)

[afm-sayem]

For inspiration, we can start looking into some other established universities:

• Cornell
• John Hopkins

Webby awards best sites in terms of usability and content each year and has a school/university category. We can draw inspiration from those as well.

[fahad-hasan]

Starting with the basics, we need a front page with articles, news, notices, achievements and typical cms stuff. Then each department would need their individual sites (preferably subdomains) with their own content. Then we would need an admin panel to manage the contents.

Once the basics are sorted, we can keep on adding modules (i.e e-learning, student forum etc).

[Ysajid]

• Clean home page, only navigation pane/bar and university title
• Common search list and faq section
• Statistics/Achievements in about page
  • Bread Crumbs

  • Content Management System

    a good read

[Ysajid]

So, please create some easy panel for the non-technical IUT personals, so that they need less interaction to update any day-to-day content. We may give them some How-To tutorial Habib Kabir vai

[afm-sayem]

@Ysajid Since we are using Django, it comes with a pre-built admin interface which should cover a lot of ground by itself. It'd be great if you could ask existing maintainers of the site about what they want to see in the end product. Those feedbacks will prove crucial in determining the set of features we want to implement in v1.

[Ysajid]

@afm-sayem vai, i'll try to get feedbacks inshaAllah.

[afm-sayem]

Since we will work iteratively and it'll be a continuous effort, we only need to find out the minimum set of features that are required to improve over the current site. I have looked into some university portals from North America and comparing them to our current site yields that we need to focus and implement the following features before we work on fancier stuff.

About

At a Glance, Leadership, Vice Chancellors Message, Administrative Offices, Contact

Admissions:

Undergrad/Masters/Individual Courses/Diploma > Procedure, Admission requirements, Important dates, Announcements, Results, Scholarships

Departments:

Individual Departments > About, Faculties, Stuff, Research, News, Curriculum, Announcements

Announcements

News, Events, Notices, Jobs

Life at IUT

Student Life, Accommodation, Cafeteria, Library, Sports, Clubs, Tour

Does this seem good for us to get started? Do you think the core features need any other inclusion or exclusion?

[meftasadat]

Well summarized, I would just add IUT Smart Card and Information for Prospective students (i.e. international/domestic)

[afm-sayem]

Great. I'll get some draft mockups up to get discussions around design going in another ticket. Meanwhile, let's keep this ticket open for further discussions.