How creating an easy-to-grasp-and-use portal for the European Higher Education Virtual Fair (EHEVF) 2015 empowered the EU delegation to provide university entrants from India and South Asia with a single convenient source of information about uni news and available training programs with built-in chat rooms for direct communication with university representatives.
Online Portal should solve following problems that considered to be typical for every fair:
The main troubleshooting solution was to create the portal on the basis of CMS.
The main goal of our team was to make the backend part of the portal:
Import all early collected information on our CMS
Integration with Adobe Connect webinars
Give the possibility for uni representatives to make their own micro-blogs for each university
Create a university news feeds and possibility to receive periodical news from the existing ones (from university sites)
Arrange Q&A sections in each university; provide dynamic content filling of this sections on the basis of frequently asked questions; launch notifications for the interested upon receiving new questions / answers
Provide Online Calendars with the ability to subscribe on it and on periodical notifications upon publishing of up-to-date information that might be interesting to the user
Arrange Online Chat Rooms for students and universities in a given time interval
Aggregation of news feeds and the ability to customize the data tapes for registered users
Enable easy editing / updating of information about universities by the uni representatives or content editors
Import / export of users and creation of users notification about particular events in the system
Creation of custom reporting forms
Creation of custom layout for CMS pages
