I’m amazed at the number of types of management modules apparently on offer at Unisa. From the search box logs again, students are looking for info on:
financial management
purchasing management
strategic management
operations management
safety management
business management
sports management
human resource management
This makes it very tempting to have a menu item called “Management”, with all the above management courses listed as sub-menus.
But I’m not going to do this because it would overcrowd the site. Navigation items already in place are:
- A menu (with course codes)
- A tag cloud (with subject names)
- A search box
- A mini-feed (New!)
So someone doing e.g. Business Management can get to their module page with:
- 2 clicks via the menu (MNB –> MNB101D)
- 2 clicks via the tag cloud (Management –> MNB101D)
- 1 click via the mini feed
- 0 clicks via the search box, by just typing in MNB101D and hitting Enter!
Hopefully if you’re looking for “Business Management” you’ll either know more or less what the course code is (MNB is good enough) or you’ll understand that it falls under “Management”. I really can’t have every possible search term visible in the navigation items. I hope my architecture makes sense. Will find out next month during the usability testing!
