We’ve now added a feature to the College of Education Calendar Application allowing users to download an iCalendar compatible .ics file to their computer. From there, users can import that file into any number of desktop or web calendar/appointment applications that support the iCalendar format.
Therefore, if a student is interested in an event taking place a few weeks into the future, they can add that event to their calendar application without having to type in all of the information.
One of the features we’ve been working to implement is a directory of various School District and Organization job listings pages. We believe this to be an important page to allow our students, graduates and other visitors to seek potential employment. This page allows School Districts and other Education related organizations to submit their HR pages or job listings pages for inclusion in our directory. We will then view the submitted site and, if approved, post it on our directory page allowing others to navigate to that page and view current employment openings.
We have now implemented online donations available through the OU Foundation website. Potential donors can now navigate to an online form in which they can submit a donation to the College of Education. On various pages within the Alumni and Donors section of the College’s website we’ve placed a button indicating that users can ‘Give Online’. You can view one of these buttons from http://education.ou.edu/alumni_donor/about_dev/ <– scroll down towards the bottom of the page.
Donors currently can give to both the:
Donors and Alumni can also join the Alumni and Friends Association online, with support for Dallas Area Alumni coming soon.
We will also be adding support to RSVP for the Celebration of Education online. These pages are currently in development and will be added soon.
View the Student Services Podcasts
Student Services came to Bill and me to discuss publishing a podcast aimed at helping students with their questions about advisement. Liz Ehrhardt and Dorothy Bradshaw recorded the initial entry for the podcast titled ‘Who is my adviser?’, a question and answer session explaining what the advisement process is and how students can take advantage of the process. We developed a quicktime movie and incorporated the audio along with a photo slideshow and published a webpage to host the podcast. The Podcast is located at http://education.ou.edu/studentservices/podcasts/. Students can view the most current entry or click on the archived entries to view them.
There is also an RSS feed to which students can subscribe to be notified of new entries posted to the podcast. We feel this may be a great way to reach our students to ensure that they have the information they need to succeed.
We’ve begun implementing a new feature for the search results page on the website. This new feature will deliver Featured Results (much like paid-advertising results) at the top of the search page for a specific term.
The problem:
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