Riding on the success of our internal Effective Digital Content course, we set out to expand by building an external version for the short courses platform, taking a product thinking approach. Three months on, experimenting with a proof-of-concept course has convinced to pause this work – to avoid falling into a build trap.

In May, Mel and Nick from the UX team attended two days of Power BI training with QA. The training covered the basics of using Power BI Desktop and, through a mix of instructor-led and independent exercises, gave us a chance to transform data and build visualisations.

In our October session of Content Improvement Club, we divided up into breakout rooms and worked on the same page of content. Then we came back together and compared the edits we had made. This session helped us to learn about what different editors look for when working on a piece of content.

Content Improvement Club is our regular meetup for web publishers. This month, we focused on how to make web content easier to use by applying a nine-step editing process called ‘Editing that works’.

In September, I attended Access:Given, a new one-day digital accessibility conference. This post covers the four sessions and my takeaways from an insightful event.

We’ve been developing a new version of the Effective Digital Content online course. This post provides information about how to access the new course and what it covers.

We’ve been developing a new version of the Effective Digital Content online course. This post looks at how we approached manual accessibility testing and the changes we made as a result. This is part 5 of our short series on how we built the new version of Effective Digital Content. Other posts in this series are: Part […]

We’ve been developing a new version of the Effective Digital Content online course. This post looks at how we built the course using our chosen platform, Articulate Rise 360, and how we found the process.

We’ve been developing a new version of the Effective Digital Content online course. This post looks at how we moved on from the prototype stage and which technology options we considered. 

We’ve been developing a new version of Effective Digital Content. This post looks at how this work fits into our wider approach to supporting content design across the University.