Question 1

Getting Started with the Block-based Editor

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🧱 The Building Blocks

Your Prospectus Plus content will be created using a series of independent content blocks which provide a highly customisable (and very enjoyable) editing experience.

From paragraphs and images to buttons and video, the block-based editor puts the power in your hands to create unique layouts that suit your brand and message. Building with blocks means that you can place content wherever you like on the page and shift it around your layout effortlessly.

| This approach gives you a high level of creative control and makes editing your content very easy and intuitive.

🎨 Getting Started

But if you're struggling to get started, please watch our quick start guide below which covers all the basics. If you need anything else, just get in touch via Live Chat or by emailing help@prospectus.plus

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Question 2

How to Add a Custom URL to Your Prospectus

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Adding a custom domain to your digital prospectus enhances your brand identity and provides a seamless experience for users. This guide will walk you through the steps required to configure a custom domain, with a focus on timelines and what to expect.

Step 1: Choose and Confirm Your Domain

The first step is for your team to decide which custom domain you’d like to use for your prospectus. This will typically be something like prospectus.yourschool.ac.uk or courses.yourinstitution.edu.

Once you’ve confirmed the domain, share this with us so that we can begin the setup on our end.

Step 2: We Generate DNS Records

After receiving your domain choice, our team will generate two critical DNS records that need to be added to your domain’s DNS settings. These are essential for routing traffic to your new domain through AWS Amplify (the underlying infrastructure provider for your Prospectus Plus front-end).

We will provide these records as soon as possible.

Step 3: Implement DNS Records

Timing is everything. Once we generate the DNS records, they must be implemented within 10 hours. This is to ensure a smooth and timely transition and is a requirement of AWS Amplify. We highly recommend coordinating with your IT team in advance to ensure the DNS records can be applied within this window.

Here’s a breakdown of what your IT team needs to do:

Log in to your domain’s DNS provider.
Navigate to the DNS management section.
Add the two records that we provide

Question 3

Configuring Course Sync

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To ensure a seamless course sync process with Prospectus Plus, your technical team needs to prepare and provide a data feed. This guide outlines the essential steps and requirements to help you achieve a smooth integration.

Data Feed Setup

Your data feed should be hosted online in a publicly accessible location, ensuring it’s available for Prospectus Plus to sync. The recommended format for this feed is either JSON or XML. If your feed contains sensitive data, we strongly recommend removing it prior to sharing.

We accept both hosted files and API endpoints for the data feed. Regardless of your choice, ensure the feed remains accessible for future syncs.

Sync Fields

The current sync process supports the following fields, which can be included in your data feed:

ea_course_id: The unique identifier for each course. This field is required.
ea_course_code: The code assigned to the course.
ea_course_title: The title or name of the course.
ea_subject_area: The subject area or category of the course.
ea_award: The type of award or qualification associated with the course.
ea_school: The school or department offering the course.
ea_mode: The mode of study (e.g., full-time, part-time, online).
ea_campus: The campus or location where the course is offered.
ea_institution: The institution providing the course.
ea_hero_image: The URL or path to the hero image representing the course.
ea_hero_video: The URL or path to the hero video r

Question 4

Getting Started With Prospectus Plus

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🎉 Getting Started

The below guide covers all the immediate need-to-knows including logging in, inviting new users, adding content, tagging content and how personalisation works. The aim is to help get you up and running as quickly as possible.

| Is there something we didn't cover? Please get in touch via Live Chat or by emailing help@prospectus.plus

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Question 5

Understanding the Analytics Dashboard

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Understanding the Analytics Dashboard

The 'Analytics' section of your Prospectus CMS reveals some useful stats about how users are interacting with your Prospectus site. Please find a glossary with more information on what each stat shows. For more information, you can view our video explainer here.

Key Overview Stats

Registered Users The number of users who have generated a prospectus and then signed up in order to save their Prospectuses in order to come back and modify/view at a later date.

Unique Site Visits Simply the number of times your prospectus site has been visited by a user who hadn't visited the site before.

Prospectus URLs Generated Works hand-in-hand with the 'Registered Users' stat. Prospectus URLs generated describes how many registered users went on to save their prospectus as a re-visitable URL.

Outbound Clicks The number of times clicking a link in the prospectus site sent users to content on a different site. The most common use case is when a user clicks one of your buttons that links them off to your flagship website.

Content Stats

|| These stats can each be filtered to show either Courses or pages. You can also use the box in the top-right to filter these stats by time period (This Week, Last 4

Question 6

How to Request a Feature

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Out of the box, Prospectus Plus ships with all the core functionality required to create and populate a successful online prospectus. But the product is constantly evolving and improving. As a valued customer, we'd love you to be a part of this evolution. 💙

💡 I have an idea which could enhance the product. How can I let you know?

Please log your suggestion on our public roadmap site.

📊 How do you decide which features are prioritised?

Because product enhancements will benefit everyone who uses Prospectus Plus, we want to make sure we're working on features which benefit the most number of users in the most positive way possible. Each feature logged on our suggestions board can be voted for by way of a single click on the ^ icon next to the feature description. Please do vote for any existing feature requests that you'd like to see us work on. It really does make a difference! A relatively high vote count is a clear indicator for us to sit up and take notice.

The main categories we measure priority by include:

Number of separate requests
Overall number of roadmap votes
Perceived added value
Type of request
Dependencies (does anything need to be worked on first in order to make it feasible?)

📈 What happens next?

Once a feature is accepted for design and/or development, it can be viewed as part of our 4-stage public roadmap.

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