Learning Commons:Student Orientation/Website Purpose/Home

This page explains the purpose of the Learning Commons Home webpage, some of its current uses, and includes a questions and comments section where users can provide feedback.

What This Section is

The Learning Commons homepage contains a brief introductory video about the Chapman Learning Commons, links to notable or useful sections of the site, the UBC Learning Commons Twitter Feed, and links to recently published articles regarding updates and events happening with the Chapman Learning Commons.

Current Uses

The Home Page has seen been through several iterations over the years and will likely continue to evolve. As it stands currently, we use the carousel as a navigational aid and to display new blog posts. Of the eight tiles, six of them are static and link to our highest traffic pages. Even though the pages are static, we do change some of them a couple times a year when a service like Tutoring isn’t being offered in the summer.

The other two tiles can be used to highlight important content from our campus partners (for example, if a pertinent event is taking place on campus), or to highlight a blog post. One rule about content in those rotating tiles is that if it’s in the carousel, it should not replicated in the stream of blog posts below the carousel. There should be no duplication of content on the home page.