ISIS - Johns Hopkins University

Easy Guidelines

Your suggestions for redesigning ISIS may be as minor or as dramatic as you like. You can make small changes to ISIS as it currently stands, or you can scrap the whole thing and start from scratch. Maybe you'd like to change the ISIS layout. Perhaps you want to change the way users navigate ISIS. Maybe you'd even like to include content in ISIS that it doesn't currently carry. You hold the reins.

Proposals can take one of three forms:

Submit prose. Give a detailed verbal description of what you would change about ISIS and why, or describe how you would design ISIS from the ground up. Your submission can include descriptions of the design elements, of how your new navigation would flow, or of the content itself. If you wish, you may illustrate your words with few graphics.

Create a picture . Photoshop your solution. Submit graphics that illustrate how the ISIS Web site would look under your redesign. You might submit before-and-after screenshots. You might submit a series of screenshots that show how you would get from the ISIS homepage to, say, the description for a course in the Spring 2010 course schedule. Your pictures may be accompanied by some verbal explanation.

Write your own code. Create part of an ISIS environment. Your code can simulate how the new ISIS would look and feel. You can create a code to allow the user to check his or her financial aid status. You might create a whole new way to register for a class.

Any combination of the above is acceptable and welcome.

Simple Instructions

All submissions should be emailed to isis@jhu.edu. Enter "ISIS Redesign submission" in the subject line.

Students may work as part of a group if they wish. All members of the group should listed in the submission email.

For each participant, submission emails should include submitter's name, contact email, and division (undergraduate or graduate; Arts & Sciences, Engineering, Public Health, Medicine, etc.).

Accepted file types are

For document files: .doc, .docx, .pdf, .ppt, .pptx, .txt, .xls, .xlsx
For image files: any commonly used image file (eg, .jpg, .png, .gif, .tiff)
For code files: .css, .htm, .html, .js. If you submit code, create a single compressed file of your directory structure as your submission.

All questions should be emailed to isis@jhu.edu.

The deadline for receiving submissions is midnight on February 5, 2010.

If your design or any part of your design is selected, you will be notified in early May 2010 and you will be recognized on the ISIS website(s). SSET may select elements from one or more submissions to be used in the actual ISIS Web site.

Thank you for your interest! We look forward to receiving your submissions. You might see your very own work in ISIS this time next year!

You Design: ISIS Overhaul
You've used ISIS. Maybe you like it; maybe you don't. Think you can do better? Now's your chance.
The Student Systems and Educational Technologies (SSET) department at Johns Hopkins is offering you an opportunity to do ISIS up right. SSET announces a contest in which you, the students, are invited to submit your vision for a new ISIS. If any part of your design is chosen, it will be used in the actual Johns Hopkins online environment and will go live in fall 2010.
Easy Guidelines Your suggestions for redesigning ISIS may be as minor or as dramatic as you like. You can make small changes to ISIS as it currently stands, or you can scrap the whole thing and start from scratch. Maybe you'd like to change the ISIS layout. Perhaps you want to change the way users navigate ISIS. Maybe you'd even like to include content in ISIS that it doesn't currently carry. You hold the reins. Proposals can take one of three forms: Submit prose. Give a detailed verbal description of what you would change about ISIS and why, or describe how you would design ISIS from the ground up. Your submission can include descriptions of the design elements, of how your new navigation would flow, or of the content itself. If you wish, you may illustrate your words with few graphics. Create a picture . Photoshop your solution. Submit graphics that illustrate how the ISIS Web site would look under your redesign. You might submit before-and-after screenshots. You might submit a series of screenshots that show how you would get from the ISIS homepage to, say, the description for a course in the Spring 2010 course schedule. Your pictures may be accompanied by some verbal explanation. Write your own code. Create part of an ISIS environment. Your code can simulate how the new ISIS would look and feel. You can create a code to allow the user to check his or her financial aid status. You might create a whole new way to register for a class. Any combination of the above is acceptable and welcome. Simple Instructions All submissions should be emailed to isis@jhu.edu. Enter "ISIS Redesign submission" in the subject line. Students may work as part of a group if they wish. All members of the group should listed in the submission email. For each participant, submission emails should include submitter's name, contact email, and division (undergraduate or graduate; Arts & Sciences, Engineering, Public Health, Medicine, etc.). Accepted file types are For document files: .doc, .docx, .pdf, .ppt, .pptx, .txt, .xls, .xlsx For image files: any commonly used image file (eg, .jpg, .png, .gif, .tiff) For code files: .css, .htm, .html, .js. If you submit code, create a single compressed file of your directory structure as your submission. All questions should be emailed to isis@jhu.edu. The deadline for receiving submissions is midnight on February 5, 2010. If your design or any part of your design is selected, you will be notified in early May 2010 and you will be recognized on the ISIS website(s). SSET may select elements from one or more submissions to be used in the actual ISIS Web site. Thank you for your interest! We look forward to receiving your submissions. You might see your very own work in ISIS this time next year!