Global Education & Career Development  website

• used by undergrads, grad students, alumni, employers, prospective employers
• describes the services provided by GECD
• provides a means to schedule appointments / interviews, and apply for programs
• has a blog for students abroad

• The GECD site is made up of distinct categories, referred to as 'Channels', corresponding to the main top level menus.
• Each channel has its own Landing Page.
• Each channel has a distinct color scheme for all related content.

Channels

About	Discover Your Career (Career)	Find a Job/Internship (Jobs)

Apply to Graduate School (Grad School)	Go Abroad (Go Abroad)	For Employers  (Employers)

Templates:

Landing Pages

Landing Page Fields

• Introduction
• Image
• Quick Links Title
• Quick Links       (only appears when data exists)
• Resources Title
• Resources     (only appears when data exists)

Basic Pages

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Basic Page Fields

• Image    (only appears when data exists)
• Quick Links Title
• Quick Links       (only appears when data exists)
• Resources Title
• Resources     (only appears when data exists)

Home Page

Permissions/Workflow

1. Content Manager - admin of site (Drupal Cloud convention) – assigns roles
2. Page editors  - can create and edit existing  pages, and delete own pages, within their channel – but not publish
3. Channel Approvers - can create, edit, delete and publish pages (for specific channel) ;  also responsible for Landing Pages
4. Approvers can publish all types of pages.
5. A list of approvers will get email whenever a page is created or modified
6. A list of channel approvers  will get email whenever a Landing page is created or modified

Proposed Roles

• Content Manager ( = Web Management Team)
• Channel Approver *
  • About page approver
  • Career page approver
  • Jobs page approver
  • Grad School page approver
  • Go Abroad page approver
  • Employer page approver
• Page editor *
  
  • About page editor
  • Career page editor
  • Jobs page editor
  • Grad School page editor
  • Go Abroad page editor
  • Employer page editor
• Feature Manager
• Feature Contributor
• Blog Moderator
• Blog Contributor

Proposed New GECD Content types

• Basic About page
• Basic Career page
• Basic Jobs page
• Basic Grad School page
• Basic Go Abroad page
• Basic Employer page
• Landing page
• Features
• Announcements
• Blog entries

General Page Responsibility

Page Type	Content Mgr	Channel Approver	AboutPage Editor	Career Page Editor	Jobs Page Editor	Grad School Page Editor	Go Abroad Page Editor	Employer Page Editor
Landing Pages	create,edit,delete, publish	create,edit,delete, publish
About Pages	create,edit,delete, publish	create,edit,delete, publish	create,edit, delete (own)
Career Pages	create,edit,delete, publish	create,edit,delete, publish		create,edit, delete (own)
Jobs Pages	create,edit,delete, publish	create,edit,delete, publish			create,edit, delete (own)
Grad School Pages	create,edit,delete, publish	create,edit,delete, publish				create,edit, delete (own)
Go Abroad Pages	create,edit,delete, publish	create,edit,delete, publish					create,edit, delete (own)
Employer Pages	create,edit,delete, publish	create,edit,delete, publish						create,edit, delete (own)

• There is a distinct Channel Approver role for each basic channel type page.

Special Page Types

• features consist of picture and corresponding article
• feature moderator automatically notified of contributor activity

• blog moderator automatically notified of contributor activity

Webforms

	Cybersource	Comment	Link
Workshop Request Form			https://gecd-dev.mit.edu/career/workshop_request_form
On Campus Recruiting Payment Form	yes	mit_due_careersoff	https://gecd-dev.mit.edu/about/resources/campus-recruiting-payment-form
Go Global Fair Payment Form	yes	mit_due_globalfair  - invalid amount	https://gecd-dev.mit.edu/about/resources/go-global-fair-payment-form
Credential Services Payment Form	yes	mit_due_careersoff2	https://gecd-dev.mit.edu/about/resources/credential-services-payment-form
F/ASIP Employer Registration Form			https://gecd-dev.mit.edu/jobs/intern/explore/fasip/employer/registration_form
Global Fellows Program			https://gecd-dev.mit.edu/career/graduate_student_services/apply/global_fellows_application_form
Preheath Advisory Board Letter Request Form/COPA Letter Request Form			https://gecd-dev.mit.edu/grad-school/copa-letter-request-form
F/ASIP Internship Description			https://gecd-dev.mit.edu/jobs/intern/explore/fasip/employer/internship_description
F/ASIP Pre-Registration Form			https://gecd-dev.mit.edu/jobs/fasip-pre-registration-form
IAP Madrid Payment Form	yes	mit_due_iapmadrid	https://gecd-dev.mit.edu/about/iap-madrid-payment-form
Alumni Payment Form	yes	mit_due_careers      Cancelled	https://gecd-dev.mit.edu/about/alumni-payment-form
GECD Digital Display	yes	mit_due_employers  Cancelled	https://gecd-dev.mit.edu/employers/plan/advertise/digital_display_form
Digital Display Payment Form			https://gecd-dev.mit.edu/about/digital-display-payment-form
Prehealth Registration Form			https://gecd-dev.mit.edu/about/prehealth-registration-form
New Employer Form			https://gecd-dev.mit.edu/employers/new-employer-form
Gift Card Tracking Sheet			https://gecd-dev.mit.edu/intranet/gift_card

Improvement Areas

• Utility Bar  – larger font
• MIT logo
• Font type & size (increase body font to at least 16px)
• Bread crumbs  –  NOT needed
• Social Media Integration 
  
  • specific to each channel
• Events
  
  • specific to each channel

Questions ?

• Event tags with vocabularies ?
• Home page
  
  • Sponsers
    • slideshow
  • Announcements
    • who creates. edits, publishes ?
  • Events
    • event coordinator,   function?
    • events specific to channel
  • Home page Features
    • Photo slide show & text
    • who creates. edits, publishes  ?
    • access to unpublished features
    • archiving features
• Blog entries 
  
  • who creates. edits, publishes ?
• Internet Home
  • admin  pages
• Files / File organization
• Webforms
  • which webforms may be discarded ?
  • associated with channels
• Map   work around

Schedule

• Nov 12   determine timeline/budget/scope
• Nov 26    Usability report due
• Dec 1-5    adjustments based on Usability
• Dec 5-24  build out basic site
• Jan 12     Training for GECD staff
• Jan 12-31   theme work
• Jan 12-31  data migration (GECD)
• Feb 2-6    final verification
• mid Feb    cutover