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Appraising the new undergraduate study website: a scorecard approach – Future student online experiences

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/future-student-experience/appraising-the-new-undergraduate-study-website-a-scorecard-approach/

B+. Entry requirements (How likely am I to be offered a place?). ... The next priority for a summative testing appraisal and scorecard will be the prospective postgraduates website which we will launch in October.

Experimenting with GenAI: why we won’t be using it to help with degree finder editing for now – Future student online experiences

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/future-student-experience/experimenting-genai-why-wont-be-using-it-degree-finder-editing/

I will provide you with text which needs copyediting to meet the requirements for how people read on screen. ... For now, our team is focused on delivering our new postgraduate degree finder and study site, launching in October.

Is AI changing the way prospective students apply for university?  – Future student online experiences

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/future-student-experience/is-ai-changing-the-way-prospective-students-apply-for-university/

Read Lauren’s blog to find out more about our entry requirements tool. ... Unfortunately, we’ve also discovered that:. AI tools are not reliable at returning accurate information, especially when it comes to our entry requirements .

Improving the collaborative editing process with the new degree finder CMS – Future student online experiences

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/future-student-experience/improving-the-collaborative-editing-process-with-the-new-degree-finder-admin-system/

Editors will be introduced to the new CMS when we begin preparing the 2026 entry edition of the postgraduate degree finder in the coming months. ... Although this multi-platform approach met our requirements in the short term for a collaborative editing

A content design reflection on the development of our new undergraduate online provision – Future student online experiences

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/future-student-experience/content-design-reflection-on-new-undergraduate-online-provision-development/

The most challenging task while creating the prototype was designing a new entry requirements experience. ... Redesigning how we display entry requirements in the undergraduate degree finder – Lauren’s blog post from November 2023.

Technology alone doesn’t deliver transformation – Future student online experiences

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/future-student-experience/technology-alone-doesnt-deliver-transformation/

The new content management system is in active use ahead of the launch of the 2026 entry undergraduate provision. ... Collaboration with. SRA. Admissions on entry requirements presentation design that has built a strong ongoing relationship and given

Can AI help or hinder search? Trials with Drupal AI-boosted search and AI Assistants  – Website and Communications Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/applying-ai-to-improve-search-experiments-with-drupal-ai-boosted-search-and-ai-assistants/

Normal search – returned results including a link to the page with a full list of all degrees ( postgraduate and undergraduate, not only History) available at the School . ... to review the listed degree programmes, explore the entry requirements , or

It all boils down to dignity and respect – SCOPE

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/scope/2025/01/21/it-all-boils-down-to-dignity-and-respect/

Any views expressed within media held on this service are those of the contributors, should not be taken as approved or endorsed by the University, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the University in respect of any particular issue. SCOPE.

Preview our new postgraduate taught and research programme pages – Future student online experiences

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/future-student-experience/preview-new-postgraduate-taught-research-programme-pages/

An issue in our current degree finder is that all editors have access to the entry requirements section, when this content should only be edited by colleagues in Student Recruitment and ... Admissions. So while you can see an example of entry

Lessons learned from usability testing under time pressure – Future student online experiences

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/future-student-experience/lessons-learned-from-usability-testing-under-time-pressure/

We started this project in the summer with a deadline of 1 October 2024 – the go-live date for the new edition of the 2025 entry edition of the postgraduate degree ... Postgraduate degree finder programme page with new content in ‘Scholarships and