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Finally, a new CLDD website is publicly available
By Cindy Ives April 4, 2012 - 10:23am Comments (3)
Check it out and let us know what you think: cldd.athabascau.ca
There is lots of room for improvement, we know, but we are hoping you'll be able to find what you are looking for more easily than before. Whether you need access to online course development forms, general information about CLDD services, clarification about copyright, updated activity reports, access to resources, or contact information, it's all there at your fingertips. If you can't find it, let me know.
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Looking good! NIce to see examples etc so prominently displayed, and some useful information that is pretty easy to find. Also excellent to be able to open this out to the broader community for commentary here. One or two thoughts...
It's not clear why some things open in new windows and some don't - perhaps better (if it is done at all) to limit opening of new windows to external sites only? Otherwise it is a bit easy to lose a sense of continuity and it is easy, depending on browser configuration, to lose people altogether that way.
It would be nice to see more links to someting about the great people involved, maybe to their Landing profiles? That way they could reveal as much or as little as they like to whoever they wish to see it and open up the opportunity for more dialogue. Quite a few of the things there encourage me to want to start a conversation but at that point I just get led to an email or phone link or nowhere at all. Or perhaps there might be a link to a CLDD Landing group, maybe, in the contact page and maybe elsewhere?
One very small point: I suspect one FAQ might be 'why does the FAQ tell me about an introduction to calcululus?'
Thanks for the great comments, Jon.
We'll look into the opening windows issue and try to ensure consistency.
Great suggestion about linking to peoples' Landing profiles. I'll take the request to CLDD staff and we'll do that for those who are interested.
The FAQ is a left-over from the old site, and will disappear tomorrow when registration for the pilot version of MATH 265 closes. We are working on a real FAQ for the site to be launched soon.
Cindy
- Cindy Ives
Excellent. It's great to see this developing - would be nice to see such good communication right the way across the university. I think we are getting there but there are pockets here and there that are unloved by their makers.