Interesting Uses of Departmental Sites

We are UGA History Video - available from the homepage - http://hist.franklin.uga.edu/

History at Work - http://hist.franklin.uga.edu/history-work - this is a good document that addresses how to use a History degree

History at Work Speaker Series - http://hist.franklin.uga.edu/history-work-speaker-series - they have a collection of events where former history majors discuss how they transform history degrees into post-college careers

List of Private Tutors by Course - http://chem.franklin.uga.edu/list-private-tutors - this is really great for students

Contact List - https://chem.franklin.uga.edu/contact-us - this is a nice comprehensive list of all important contacts in the department

Research Details page - https://chem.franklin.uga.edu/research/content/analytical-chemistry - we worked with the department to create a more developed listing of faculty that work on the research areas. Other departments can have this view if requested 

Undergraduate and Graduate FAQs - https://chem.franklin.uga.edu/faqs-undergraduate-chemistry-program and https://chem.franklin.uga.edu/faq-graduate-program - these are great because its a good collection of past questions received by prospective applicants. 

Job Postings on Homepage - http://math.franklin.uga.edu/ - they highlight all open positions right in their homepage. 

History - https://math.franklin.uga.edu/history-mathematics-uga - Like Psychology, there's a history section. It could be laid out better, but I do like it when sites have a historical page on their site. It is interesting to see the evolution of the department within the university.

Labs - http://bcmb.franklin.uga.edu/research/labs - they do a good job of adding useful information about each lab, and they make sure their faculty and graduate students are attached to the labs they participate in. 

BISP mini site - http://bcmb.franklin.uga.edu/bff 

Undergraduate Student Landing Page - http://stat.franklin.uga.edu/undergraduate-students - nice collection of things that students might need

Graduate Student Landing page - http://stat.franklin.uga.edu/graduate-students  - nice collection of things that students might need

Academics - http://roml.franklin.uga.edu/academics - They have their information organized very efficiently. The structure is easy to follow. 

Programs - http://roml.franklin.uga.edu/language-programs - consistent formatting and structure for every program

Faculty and Staff Resources - https://roml.franklin.uga.edu/romance-languages-faculty-and-staff-resources - some interesting items there

Directory filtering - https://roml.franklin.uga.edu/directory/all - this department has a special taxonomy to allow a visitor to filter the directory by language. 

Study Abroad mini sites - https://roml.franklin.uga.edu/ugaba/home and https://roml.franklin.uga.edu/UGA-en-Espana/home - they are using a mini-site functionality to highlight programs

Program Mini Site - http://geog.franklin.uga.edu/atsc/atmospheric-sciences-program - they are using a mini-site functionality to highlight programs

Prospective Students - http://geog.franklin.uga.edu/prospective-students - nice organized

Personnel pages - their personnel pages are particularly well-connected to students and article content. Their research areas could use more development

Navigation - English really streamlined their navigation.

Basic Pages for students - One their top level pages, they make great use of the sidebar and add interesting images. https://engl.franklin.uga.edu/undergraduate-studies

Job Postings on Homepage - http://csci.franklin.uga.edu/ - they highlight all open positions right in their homepage. 

Promotion of New Classes - http://csci.franklin.uga.edu/news/stories/2019/new-course-fall-2019-csci-49006900-3-hrs - they use news articles to promote their new courses

Where in the world is Marine Sciences? https://mars.franklin.uga.edu/research-locations - highlighted on their homepage

Vehicle Reservations - http://mars.franklin.uga.edu/vehicle-reservations - they are using an outlook calendar - I need to ask them how they are doing that. You can't request through the site but you can see the calendar - makes me think they are using a resource calendar. 

Room Reservations - http://mars.franklin.uga.edu/room-reservations - They have a qualtrics reservation form and they show an outlook resource calendar for each room 

New Employee Orientation - http://mars.franklin.uga.edu/new-employee-orientation - has links to documents that need to be submitted and links to other useful resources for new staff 

Employee Resources page - http://mars.franklin.uga.edu/facultystaff

Research - http://mars.franklin.uga.edu/research - they have an nice image and description of each research area

Labs - http://mars.franklin.uga.edu/research/labs - they have a nice photo and description of every lab. 

UGA Debate Mini site -  http://comm.franklin.uga.edu/uga-debate - they are using a mini-site functionality to highlight programs

Faculty Awards - http://comm.franklin.uga.edu/faculty-awards - they promote all the awards their faculty have won on a single page

Women and Girls Conference Mini site -  http://wmst.franklin.uga.edu/wagg - they are using a mini-site functionality to highlight programs

Scholarships/Job Opportunities page - http://wmst.franklin.uga.edu/scholarshipsjob-opportunities - nice collection of resources - includes descriptions about each resource

Newsletters - http://wmst.franklin.uga.edu/newsletters - they are active about generating print newsletters and keep the web site updated with links to them. 

Social media - http://grmn.franklin.uga.edu - Not related to website so much, but GSS does great with social media. Their Facebook feed in on their homepage. We have several departments doing this, but GSS does a great job with updating their profile with very useful content. 

Student Engagement Forms - has some interesting qualtrics forms to engage students and get their contact information. http://grmn.franklin.uga.edu/request-info-ma-german and http://grmn.franklin.uga.edu/information-request-virtual-german-exchange-program 

News - https://anth.franklin.uga.edu - ANTH has always been ontop of their news. They usually have a few good articles and visuals to go with them every semester.

Courses - https://anth.franklin.uga.edu/courses/allAnthropology has spent a lot of time developing their courses content. Instead of listing all courses, they publish upcoming courses and hide the rest. (I believe that Ryan Robinson was solely behind this effort, and he has left.)

Research - http://geol.franklin.uga.edu/research - The descriptions and icons, though a relic from their previous site, are great. 

Complete Listing of all Dissertations and Theses - http://geology.uga.edu/theses-and-dissertations

Departmental Award Listing - http://geology.uga.edu/departmental-awards

Archive of Welcome Letters - https://geol.franklin.uga.edu/welcome-letter-archive-page

Academics - http://thea.franklin.uga.edu/academics - well organized academic section

Event Submissions - https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7VaSWWNpNhfK5Df - people can submit events for consideration on the calendar