ImpVis website structure
The ImpVis website can be found here: https://impvis.co.uk. This Wiki is within a subdomain of that: https://wiki.impvis.co.uk.
The website caters for an audience comprising three groups of people:
- Learners: students of STEMM courses who use our interactive visualisations to gain a deeper understanding of abstract concepts taught within their module.
- Instructors: (mostly) staff members of HE institutions who wish to use a visualisation as a teaching & learning tool for their module.
- Creators: ImpVis project partners engaged in creating new visualisations.
‘Teach’ area is where every individual visualisation appears once it’s approved and published. Here you can sort visualisations by category. From here, visualisations should launch full screen (via URL parameter, eg ‘teach=1’) by default. Any user can view the ‘teach’ area. They can then download a vis for offline use, or launch it. Any signed-in user can ‘favourite’ a visualisation which means they will appear in their dashboard.
‘Learn’ area is where ‘collections’ appear. A collection can be a single visualisation or a combination of pages. Any creator or instructor can create collections. Collections are for specific modules, so should have institution, department, module, academic year labels. Any signed-in user can ‘favourite’ a collection which means they will appear in their dashboard. A creator or instructor can ‘copy’ an existing collection to create a new collection based on an existing collection.