3/03/2023
Insights
• Orientation week tour during start of trimester provided good
starting point for new students.
• New students tend to approach Librarians to get help on how to
navigate and find things.
• Wayfinder only valuable for first few weeks.
• MyTools is useful.
• Announcements, notifications and communications are inconsistent
and often long winded. Most students do not bother reading the
long emails.
• Inconsistent Blackboard usage (layout, information structure, etc.)
results in hit and miss experience, sometimes good, sometimes bad.
• Students who are staff as wel struggle with SSO as they switch
between roles.
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Insights cont.
• Too many places and clicks to access things they need (e.g. many
layers of Blackboard, timetable, myAl ocator, myDegree and student
email are al not interconnected).
• Blackboard App is clunky.
• myAl ocator always hit runtime error.
• Timetable not ful y representing information about al events.
• Students tend to screenshot timetable out or build their own
timetable in excel.
• Students forward university email to personal email.
• Postgraduate students do not use Blackboard much and very little
other tools.
• Students just want the basics to work wel .
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Additional capabilities students want
• SSO for everything.
• Integration between Timetable, Student Records and Blackboard.
• Timetable and myAl ocator should be one and exportable.
• Ability to sync timetable to phone or google calendar.
• Search/filter function for Blackboard announcement (some way to
easily see announcements relevant to them).
• Consistency on how lecturers use Blackboard.
• Easy access to lecture material (inclusive of recorded lectures).
• Personalised content.
• Concise announcements (bul et points with read more option).
• Structured list of due dates or due dates on calendar.
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