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7. Invite guest speakers to participate in the forum.
8. Advertise on social media and the university bulletin boards (including Loyola).
=== '''Strategy #7: Improving the Sophia University Bulletin Board on the Loyola web platform.''' ===
==== '''Background:''' ====
While doing our research for the landscape canvas, we noticed that although Sophia University provides a lot of information for its students, it may be difficult to access that information if not delivered directly to the student. This seems especially to be the issue in regards to Innovation and Entrepreneurship. For students to get interested in I&E, it is important that the information about the opportunities the University provides is easily accessible to the students. Our assumption is that the Web Platform (Loyola) where most information is collected on a bulletin board, is not working as well as it should. It can be difficult to search for specific information, and there also seems to be a language barrier, as some information is not available in English. Therefore, one of our goals is to improve the information delivery of Sophia, mainly through improvement of the Loyola bulletin board.
==== '''Structure:''' ====
We will need to have a dialog with the web Admins at Sophia to discuss what possibilities there are to improve the existing platform. However, on the basis of our findings, we see that although some students are satisfied with the current system, there have been identified some common problems through prototype testing, along with the feedback we have gotten from students via a questionnaire. Therefore, we believe that some minor modifications, and the addition of some functions, can have a significant impact on how students perceive the Loyola bulletin board, and in that way make important information even more accessible than it is now. Some of the changes we want to make to the Loyola Bulletin board includes:
- An own category for I&E
- The possibility to save posts
- Filter to separate posts written in English and Japanese
- Add more information written in English and make it easy to find
- Add more specific categories and a way to filter them.
- The ability to customize the type of information students receive on email.
==== '''Steps:''' ====
1. Create a first prototype, a vision of how we imagine it can look like. Furthermore, we have gathered feedback from students on their experiences and opinions about the Bulletin board’s functions.
2. Based on the feedback, make a more detailed list of improvements we want to make.
3. Get in touch with the web administration at Sophia and explain to them the wishes of the students, and find out if they are willing to work with us to improve the Bulletin board.
4. Make adjustments based on possible limitations of the Loyola site.
5. Launch the new, improved Loyola Bulletin board.