Web project is pleased to announce that the new staff and student portals were launched on 13th Feb 2017. Purpose-built from the ground up, the new portals streamline more functions than ever before, making things easier to save you time on everyday tasks. The new portals are not just smarter – they are more us, reflecting […]

The web project is less than a week from launch. The major streams of work are making rapid progress. Key Points Rollout date: Monday 13th February. The new staff and student portals replace staff.mq.edu.au and students.mq.edu.au The old versions of these sites will no longer be visible, except to IT for archival access: staff.mq.edu.au, students.mq.edu.au, […]

Web Transformation Project has been focused on improving our public website and our staff and students portals. We have been collaborating across the University since improving the experience of users is our key focus. A special mention of all the teams who have embraced the concept and successfully engaged with us to meet the project […]

All-staff presentation occurs each month to communicate the scope, goals, activities and timeline of the project. This month’s presentation has more detail on the content principles, navigation structure and content activities of the project.It highlights the teams across the University that have embraced the concept of understanding their audience’s needs and committed themselves to supporting […]

As part of the Web Transformation Project, we’ll be deploying updates to the production website. As a result, there will be a content freeze and no access to the Squiz Matrix content management system (CMS) from 1am Monday 19 December until 11:59pm Friday 23 December 2016. We recommend that changes be made before 19 December or postponed until after 23 […]

For the past 18 months a University-wide team led by the Web Transformation Project has been focused on improving our public website and our two portals – one for staff and one for students. We provide you here with key facts about the project and people involved. Why are we doing this? Aim is to […]

Understanding the lingo of web speak If you are working on the Web Transformation Project wrapping your head around lingo like UX and widgets is all part of the job. We share seven top acronyms that pop up in web conversations to make speaking the language of the web easier. IA = Information architecture. IA […]

All-staff presentation occurs each month to communicate the scope, goals, activities and timeline of the project. This month’s presentation has more detail on the content principles, navigation structure and activities of the project. The navigation structure will be shared after it is approved by the web steering committee to avoid version conflicts where people could […]

The web transformation team would like to share the Designs for the Staff and Student portals. The Staff and Student Homepage Designs can be accessed via Project Wiki. Please don’t distribute the designs outside of the University. A valid staff MQ ID is required for log in.

Staff and Student Navigation Structures were designed during the content workshops and mapping activities. The new navigation structures are based on a users-first approach, involving many rounds of consultations with stakeholders and user groups. They are based upon the principles of: Users first Validated designs Simple and intuitive discovery The Staff and Student navigation structures can […]