Course page – 11 January iteration

Posted on: 11 January 2019 Tags: courses

An iteration on the current course page which:

replaces UCAS course information with a new course information section
updates the status column to match the latest course table
condenses the display of information to show more on the page
aligns more closely with the ‘check your answers’ pattern, used by the confirm page
removes the training locations section in favour of a shorter list at the to

Changing course information

At the moment courses can only be enriched in Publish teacher training courses (Publish). Course facts/details/features/information (we’re not sure what to call it) are set and managed in UCAS web-link. As part of the UCAS transition we’ve designed a new course wizard, which ends in a confirmation page.

Our current hypothesis is that editing course information should follow the same pattern as the wizard, which has tested well. Sometimes a new answer will mean other parts of the course must be changed – eg changing level from secondary to primary would mean a change to the subject.

Should all course information be editable?

Fundamentally changing an already published course, which people have applied to, means people will have applied to something different to what’s advertised. Consider a course that changes subject, or accredited body.

The integrity of the course needs to be maintained, while at the same time it must be easy for providers to fix genuine mistakes – consider a course setup with the wrong accredited body.

Options include:

edit anything, but put the onus on providers to do the right thing (eg a checkbox confirming that providers will contact anyone who has applied to this course)
edit anything, but when changes are fundamental, create a new course that supercedes the old one (this is the process providers follow on UCAS – they create a new course that’s correct and suspend the old one)
only allow editing up until the course has been published
only allow editing of certain aspects after the course has been published

Status column changes

An iteration on the original design to bring it inline with new publish workflow changes.

The new design:

changes the second draft status to ‘Published ’, with ‘ unpublished changes’. The previous draft state was universally misunderstood – it’s live but has unpublished changes, people thought it was not live.
adds ‘Is it on Find?’, ‘Applications’ and ‘Vacancies’ labels to provide the same information as the course table
removes the ‘View on website’ section, replaced with ‘Is it on Find?’
moves the audit trail (eg when published, when saved) details to the bottom