CUNY Academic Commons

Great idea, Laurie. Colin, can you please add this to our agenda for today?

We unfortunately didn't get to this during the meeting today, but I'll flag for Sara here and during the next dev call, as I think it would be good to update these as well if we can.

Hi Sara, this is all looking good to me, only one sizable change on the copy:

- On the first page, it's "basis for another" not "anothe" at the top.

- On the first page, the Academic Term and Cluster fields should only appear if the Primary Purpose selected is Teaching (sorry if you've already incorporated this).

- On the second page, "to invite others?" not "other?".

- On the third page, "throughout the Commons" not "commons".

- On the fourth page, under the Cover Image title let's say: "You can add an image here to appear across the header of your group. For best results, upload an image that is 1950px by 450px or larger. You can also click the link below to choose a header image from our Commons Art Banner collection."

Hi Sara, just a note about trying another button on the Congratulations screen linking to documentation:

- For a Group, it can say "How to use Groups" and link to:
https://help.commons.gc.cuny.edu/how-groups-can-use-the-commons/

- For a Site, it can say "How to use Sites" and link to:
https://help.commons.gc.cuny.edu/overview/

- For a Group + Site, I think we skip it since there are already three buttons.

A first pass at the redesigned group creation process is in place. Some notes and questions for Sara:

1. The comps don't have a Cancel button. It was added in #4350. I leave it to the team whether it's still necessary. For the time being, I've removed it.
2. The text under 'Congratulations' on the final panel is built dynamically. If you've created a group+site, the language is different from if you've just created a group. The text also contains the name of the group, and a link to it. I've left some of this in place for now, and we can determine as a group whether it's worth changing/simplifying.
3. Currently, the Congratulations panel shows different text and actions for post-clone than what you see post-create. I've left the existing test so that you can compare and contrast. We should decide how and whether we want these to align.
4. Where should the "How to use Groups" button point to?
5. I've made some guesses about the best behavior on mobile. I could use a bit of guidance on the avatar step (which should then be duplicated in the settings for existing groups) and also for the "card" view on the Congratulations panel.
6. The mockup has a panel for Site Details, but it doesn't have the section at the top for deciding whether to create a new site vs use an existing site vs clone. I think we need to keep some version of this. I've left it for the time being.
7. In general, there are some places where the redesigned creation flow has similar interfaces to the group settings flow, but where the comps have them appear slightly different. Compare, for example, the 'Group Privacy' section during creation with what you see at [group] > Manage > Settings. Are we indenting radio buttons? Are we hiding help text behind tooltips? Etc. Sara, as part of your initial review, it would be helpful if you did some side-by-side comparison of these sorts of screens, to ensure that we're consistent - and when we're not consistent, it should be for a reason.