Guest presentations for BSc/MSc programmes & workshops/courses for utwente.nl website editors:
- Online Marketing
- Legal requirements for websites (accessibility, GDPR/privacy, cookies, etc)
Current projects
Student Portal
Personalised portal for central and study-specific information
To improve student information, we are consolidating all student information into a single portal and personalising it for each program. We are using the Service Portal (employee information) concept for this purpose, but we are taking the technical aspects much further, particularly in user rights management: study programmes can add text to central pages that is visible only to students in their program. This consolidates all the information previously spread across more than 60 websites into a single menu/structure. Schedule: beta release in Q2 2026, rollout until Q1 2027.
Project pages
Showcasing UT research projects and offering a self-service for project owners
For 20 years, research groups have been showcasing projects on their websites. As a result, projects are scattered across more than 100 websites and are not easily searchable. By bundling the projects into a single platform (on the UT website) and retrieving data from Pure where possible, we continue to perform the same work in a standardised way. This creates a platform that makes UT research projects more visible to the outside world. Project members can update their projects themselves if desired, and projects can be integrated into the department websites and later also into People Pages. Release: Q1 2026
Redesign UT website & cleanup 2025/2026
Major menu, style and template changes for accessibility
To comply with legal accessibility requirements for (semi-)government websites, the online branding needed to be adjusted (e.g., colours and contrast), as well as the website's menu. In this project, we are limiting the menu to five levels for large websites (central, faculty, and institutes) and three levels for most other websites. In addition to the annual cleanup, we are investing extra in cleaning up and condensing content, ultimately eliminating 100,000 pages. The phased rollout will begin in Q4 2025 and continue until Q4 2026.
Finished projects
People Pages
Professional profile pages for all UT employees
As the initiator and product owner of this system, I was responsible for the entire concept and all its features from the very beginning. We collect data from various UT systems (AFAS, Planon, Osiris, Pure, etc.) to create personal pages for all UT employees. We also offer a self-service option that allows employees to add more information and adjust privacy settings. There's also the option to embed this information in other UT websites, and we offer an API for reuse outside the UT CMS. The first version in 2016 was developed by LISA, and the new version in 2024 was developed by MC in WebHare.
UT Service Portal
All information for employees in one spot
We started the basic setup of the Service Portal in 2020 with the goal of combining all employee information in one spot, while personalising it with different content per department or interest, making the employee pages recognisable through a different layout and using a separate search specifically for employee information. Now, all internal news/events/dossiers, the list of webapps, and about 2000 services for employees are integrated in one portal. Before that, information was scattered over 30 websites and 45.000 pages.
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Netherlands
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