What? + How. = Wow! Imani Butler Silver Creek High School San Jose, CA The Methodology In Action: Migrating to a School Loop Hosted Site

Phase Purposes & Steps WHAT?HOW. WOW! Determine the requirements. Analyze requirements and design a solution to meet them. ? Analyze Specify DesignImplement Launch Maintain/ Promote Plan Gather Write

Plan. Define intended audience –Who will use this web site? Purpose statement –This provides a reason and scope of the site’s existence. Objectives –A list of specific information, communication, activity, etc. that the site will support.

Plan. Overview of steps. Draft planning documents –Creative Brief –Content Outline Identify team members Distribute planning documents for review & feedback Gather and incorporate feedback and additional input to finalize planning documents

Plan. Draft Creative Brief. Like a roadmap, a creative brief identifies current location and starts your project off in a direction. Author: Project Champion Contents: –Project Summary –Current Situation (e.g. problem statement) –Proposal (e.g. solution statement) –Goals –Stakeholders

Plan. Draft Content Outline. Document that outlines the content needs of the website. It serves as a general overview and guideline to help facilitate the development of content. Author: Project Champion Contents: –Roles & Responsibilities –Content summary –Audiences –Content Delivery plan –Timeline

Plan. Who to involve A to Z. People to start with… –Administration (Principal & VPs) –Activities Director –Athletics Booster Club –Athletics Director –Head Guidance Counselor –Journalism Instructor –PTSA President or designee –School Site Council President or designee –Yearbook Advisor

Design. Purpose is to design a solution that addresses the requirements outlined in the “What?” phase Design is… management constraints “The management of constraints ” – Dino Dini, renowned video game developer In this case: a School Loop hosted website that that incorporates your school’s style (colors, fonts, images)

Design. Since School Loop is the solution, there are no “Analyze” and “Specify” steps to develop one. Instead a series of decisions… –Design Skin or Customize –Upload Design Images –Set School & District Profile information

Design. Design Skin. Choose One Customize Your Own –Design Skin or Customize –Upload Design Images –Set School & District Profile information

Design. Webmaster Center. Available if you are designated a Webmaster in School Loop. See help.schoolloop.com/webmaster

Design. Webmaster Center. Available if you are designated a Webmaster in School Loop. See help.schoolloop.com/webmaster

Purpose of the Wow! Phase To transform your design idea into a real working website and publish it to the world.

Three steps to Wow! 1.Implement 2.Launch 3.Promote/Maintain

1. Implement. Process of building the site according to the content outline. –Sections and Sub-sections –Associated Pages Assign roles to team members –Web Master: site wide privileges –Editor: can create and approve content for publishing at section level –Contributor – can create content; need Editor approval to publish

1. Implement. Click on “Add” Top-level navigation for this site… You can choose: Top-level Nav (Section) Mini-site (Sub-section) Page

2. Launch. Your created Sections, sub-sections, and pages, are drafts by defaul. In order to see them on the live site, you must publish them. You can publish sections, sub- sections, or pages individually or all at once.

3. Promote / Maintain. School Loop sites are self promoting as the school’s audiences (parents, students, faculty) regularly access and use the assignment and grade book features. Navigation and other design elements wrap around these regularly used features once the site is published.

3. Promote / Maintain. Sharing the load of creating and updating pages among contributors, editors, and webmasters throughout the school site will ensure an up to date site. An agreed upon set of rules for content and processes for updating are key to have in place. Evaluate using feedback mechanisms.

3. Promote / Maintain. Gather evaluation and feedback via survey –See WebsiteFeedback.pdf Monitor Site Stats –Basic School Loop report that provides the number of page views in 30 day running totals –Available under the Webmaster Center. Access by clicking Manage > Site Stats Google Analytics –See Google Analytics for how to setupGoogle Analytics

What? + How. = Wow! Imani Butler Silver Creek High School San Jose, CA The Methodology In Action: Migrating to a School Loop Hosted Site