Web site facilitator team includes Hunter, Caley
By Holli L. Rapp
www.ivcc.edu.
That’s IVCC’s web page, which automatically comes up when you start to surf the net on a computer on campus.
The site includes information about classes and enrolling, news items, faculty web pages and basic information about the college, but according to some college staff with responsibility for the site, it needs work.
Melissa Templeton, Director of Learning Technologies and a member of the Web Site Quality Assurance team, said the team wants the site to carry information that students are looking for and wants the site to be student or user friendly and easy to navigate.
Templeton added that the web page is undergoing an evaluation process to determine its usability and organization. She said the evaluation will be done in about a week, and she will draw up a report with hopes of modifying and making the web site better.
Webmaster Bob Hunter, who has day-to-day control of the site, said he is working to make the site more up to date.
Hunter noted that only 25 faculty members, about one-third of the full-time faculty, have web pages. Of those, he said, only 10 have access and control their pages.
Hunter said the IVCC web should include more information from the divisions and faculty. Faculty pages can "show future students what the faculty is like."
He added that the college site should "show what programs are offered for future students so they will want to come to IVCC."
At the start of the semester, Sue Caley, a life science instructor, and Hunter were appointed a Faculty Facilitator Team to work with the faculty on web page development and to assist on other technology issues.
"It (web page development) is going faster since Bob and I are working together," she said.
Caley said more web page training sessions for faculty would be offered.
Hunter said his goals for the web site include providing a better user interface, adding more photos, and providing a search navigation button.
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