Sitefinity Custom Development
Murdoch Course Page
Murdoch University took on a project to replace their current course handbook infrastructure to an automated website service. By replacing the handbook and optimising search with improved course page layouts, provides a better user experience for students whilst meeting the needs of Murdoch’s business units. Prior to the redevelopment, when performing a search the curriculum information displayed data relating to majors within each course, but there was no further course detail.
The new developed version of the course pages now helps users search for information by course and view its underlying majors or vice versa, the updated page designs and layouts making it easier to see all corresponding information between courses and majors.
The redevelopment provides a more consistent user experience by integrating data from the Courseloop. The student handbook and website now share the same data.
DEFINE THE CHALLENGE
By using an agile methodology, our project team was able to adapt to changing requirements whilst working closely with Murdoch University.
During a 5-month development process, Diviv used an agile methodology to adapt to changing functional requirements that was updated on several occasions.
Courseloop functionality is mimicked using an API to integrate into Sitefinity that manages the lifecycle of a custom course module. By working closely with Murdoch University with regular communication helped ensured success.
API Creation and Integration
At Diviv we have undertaken many custom development projects requiring the integration of multiple systems. Using our experience and learnings from other projects we are able to quickly build API’s and design data input to best suit any project needs.
How we solve your technical problem
By leveraging our knowledge of Murdoch’s systems from working closely with them over a number of years we were able to get started quickly on project delivery.
We designed and built a new API which accepts course information in a JSON format, communicating over an Azure service bus to display important course information on Murdoch’s website.
Technical Challenges:
- Security
On top of the password and API key, Diviv developed a program that cross-checks the incoming SSL certificate to determine the validity of the request origin.
- Problem solving around tech limitations
During the process, we encountered issues because of technology limitations . On many occasions it was difficult to isolate the issues but through close collaboration with our dev team and the customer, we were able to quickly solve these problems.