Windsor Website Comments

I have spent some time looking through many of the pages on the school site, and I have come up with several things that I like and dislike about Windsor's site.

One of the strengths of the site is that is can be tracked using an RSS feed, which allows users of the page to receive notifications when the site is updated. However, this feature is not useful when the site isn't updated frequently, and this lack of updates is one of my main issues with the site. I have found pages for clubs such as Windsor Goes Green, but these pages are not very detailed and list dates for meetings from months ago. I like seeing pages for various school clubs, but I think that they should each be reponsible for frequently updating their pages. This may be a responsibility for the secretary in each club.

The largest part of the school site is the Academics and Courses section. This area features course outlines and other information for many of the courses offered at the school. The various departments in the school have clearly not spent much time putting their pages together, as most of the content is outlines that have been copied and pasted into the site. The school site would be far more useful if each department added more information and updated the site more frequently. One example of extra information that could be added is a list of homework for the last few classes for students who are away from school. This may be too much work for most teachers, but there is a lot that they can add without spending large amounts of time editing the site.

I like Windsor's website, but there are a number of significant changes that must be made to it before it can be useful to students and parents. I don't have a specific section of the site that I would like to work on, because I am comfortable working with any of the pages. I would like to meet with a few teachers, possibly department heads, to see what they think should go on to the site, so that I can help them make those changes.