Website Improvement

The days of having one table that clearly describes UND’s tuition and fees are gone. Our differential tuition model is complex – changing based on major, residency, online or on-campus, number of credits, term etc. We had to use fine print to explain all the nuances. Presenting the cost of attending UND is now easier […]

UND student organization websites have transitioned off UND.edu. Student org sites now live at involvement@UND.edu, a hub that allows students to find 250+ student organizations, see events, keep up with news and interact with other students. It is a great resource that showcases the broad spectrum of UND student organizations to prospective students, current students […]

The FINAL wave is underway. Wave 5 will go live December 2019. This will officially complete the UND.edu website redevelopment project and is a milestone to celebrate. There will NOT be a Wave 6 and sites not migrated at the end of Wave 5 will be deleted.  Who’s In Wave 5 University Assessment University Analytics […]

We reviewed last year’s calendar use and found some interesting results. Calendar Traffic Spiked the First Week of School Each UND calendar event typically receive about 6,000 pageviews per week but spiked to almost 15,0000 pageviews the first week of the fall 2018 semester. Our students are engaged the first week of school and want […]

UND’s Program Finder provides prospective students a central location to explore all academic programs offered at UND. Since launch, web inquiries increased 386% for undergraduate programs and 138% for graduate programs. The Program Finder also won an Award of Excellence at the 25th Annual Communication Awards and has attracted the attention of several higher ed […]

We’re proud of our work and mStoner is too. Take a moment to read the case study about the UND website redevelopment project. Read UND’s case study >>  

We need your help. As we move through Wave 4, we are noticing a desire to have the new website organized the way UND is structured. We are hearing, “we report to XXX now, so we need our site moved.” Our reporting structure and unit names change often. This doesn’t mean our website should be renamed and reorganize […]

Fall (September and October) is prime time for recruitment and our new program finder is exceeding expectations. Here’s what we’re noticing: 71% Spike in PDF Downloads The program finder allows users to generate a program fact sheet (PDF) for each program. Every PDF download costs us $0.02. Downloads went up so dramatically in September that […]

Thanks to our awesome library staff, we have a news archive in Scholarly Commons. It includes all UND RSS articles in OmniUpdate dating back to 2011. Check it out at https://commons.UND.edu/news-archive/. We set up this archive because using our website as historical archive is “bad news”. Here’s why: Search engines (Google/Bing) like fresh sites with […]

mStoner conducted 10 one-on-one, usability testing sessions of our new website. Five sessions were conducted with prospective students; five were conducted with current students. Of the 10 total sessions, five were conducted on desktop and five were conducted on mobile.