University Intranet
This website was designed for students to receive updates from lecturers on the units that they are studing. This site is the student facing side of the lecture driven CMS. This web site is designed to replace an already existing site, that is currently not database driven but static html pages. Each unit in the department has it’s own unit page, which acts much like a blog, with a stream of the latest updates. This redesign makes the site more dynamic by linking information together for example the author of a post has a link to their profile page.
Students can keep up today with updates by subscribing to each unit’s RSS feed. Students can even filter down to category level of each post and only subscribe to post of category that they are interesting in, e.g. Lab notes for Unit B356. The system has a mechanism for caching of feeds, as this cuts down the server load because RSS feeds can be resource intensive applications as they perform many queries on the database.
The web interface is rich user experience and follows the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
