Web Publishers’ Community – May update
We had a packed agenda at this month’s WPC session with presentations about EdWeb Group Administrators, two new content types for EdWeb, a report from Google Analytics training, the results of the recent EdWeb feature prioritisation survey and a guide to applying EdGEL to your web apps and blogs.
EdWeb Group Administrators – Duncan MacGruer
We have added a new type of user to EdWeb, the Group Administrator, who has extra rights and powers. This is aimed at lead publishers.
In EdWeb, a ‘Group’ is the permissions area created by a Homepage.
Being a Group Administrator allows you to monitor and set your own group permissions and add and remove trained users to the system. It also allows you to delete outdated assets, which has previously not been possible.
We provide clear instructions on the EdWeb wiki for the new functions.
EdWeb Group Administrators wiki page
Google Analytics – notes from training – Duncan MacGruer
Duncan also gave us a report from a Google Analytics Accelerator course which he attended recently.
His slides are available on the wiki page for this month’s meeting.
Edweb development update – Bruce Darby
Bruce introduced the new content types Profile pages and Profile overview pages, which will be deployed next week.
The new Profile content type is a profile asset that is not tied to a particular area of the University site. Anyone with EASE access can edit their own profile, even if they not registered as an EdWeb user.
The Profile overview content type gives a really quick way of presenting lists of profiles and contact information.
EdWeb deployment update May 2016 – profiles
EdWeb prioritisation survey – Bruce Darby
Bruce also talked about the results from the EdWeb feature prioritisation survey which we recently have been asking EdWeb CMS users and other colleagues with an interest in the system to complete.
From a list of 27 options, 8 items consistently made their way to the top, including content removal, social media integration and event publishing.
EdWeb feature prioritisation survey results
How to ‘GEL’ it properly – Callum Kerr
Callum was back again this month to explain how to go about applying the EdGEL framework to your blog or web application.
May WPC agenda and presentations
To see the full agenda and the presentations from this month’s meeting, have a look on our wiki.
