{"id":9351,"date":"2010-09-17T10:45:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T14:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=9351"},"modified":"2010-09-17T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T14:46:00","slug":"portals-how-to-give-prospective-students-what-they-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/09\/17\/portals-how-to-give-prospective-students-what-they-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Portals: How to give prospective students what they want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"ctl00_pContentPlaceHolder_ctl05_MainHeading\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/campustechnology.com\/articles\/2010\/09\/16\/portals-how-to-give-prospective-students-what-they-want.aspx\">Portals:  How to give prospective students what they want<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from CampusTechnology.com by Bridget McCrea<\/p>\n<p id=\"ctl00_pContentPlaceHolder_ctl05_Deck\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">College  recruits expect a lot from their prospective schools&#8217; Web sites, but  there are two critical pieces of information they demand from a campus  portal&#8211;information that should be fairly simple to provide. Is yours  delivering what your prospective students want? If not, you may be  driving them away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What if one out of every four prospective students quickly crossed  your school off their list of potentials just because they had an  unfavorable experience on your Web site? That would mean that 25 percent  of your recruits would go elsewhere simply because they couldn&#8217;t find  the right academic information on the site or because your Web presence  wasn&#8217;t linked into their favorite social networking tool.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">If the scenario sounds far-fetched, think again. According to a new  survey conducted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrccua.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">National  Research Center for College &amp; University Admissions<\/a> (NRCCUA),  educational consultancy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noellevitz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Noel-Levitz<\/a>, and content management solution  provider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniupdate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">OmniUpdate<\/a>,  24 percent of students will overlook a school whose Web sites don&#8217;t  meet expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portals: How to give prospective students what they want &#8212; from CampusTechnology.com by Bridget McCrea College recruits expect a lot from their prospective schools&#8217; Web sites, but there are two critical pieces of information they demand from a campus portal&#8211;information that should be fairly simple to provide. Is yours delivering what your prospective students want? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[161,603],"class_list":["post-9351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-related","tag-portals","tag-student-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9353,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351\/revisions\/9353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}