Jack and Debs - you are right, I'm afraid, we do have a technical issue that means some links (mainly within My CIMA) require you to log in again. Our web team needs to address this by going through and testing every link and changing the ones that cause this issue. Hopefully we can do this soon. I will update you on how we get on! But please accept my apologies in the meantime, as it is certainly a really annoying bug.

Faheem - thanks for the feedback, which I agree with. We hope to make a number of improvements over the coming months. If you are interested in helping to shape the development of CIMAglobal, or simply want to feed back any issues you encounter, we are looking for more people to join the Improving CIMA's website group.

Adam (Digital Media Manager at CIMA)

The case sensitivity issue with CIMAsphere login should be fixed soon.

Anonymous - we can't replicate the issue you're having when moving from My CIMA to Discussions. Is this happening when you click on Discussions in the top navigation from My CIMA?

Hussain - you can either join the group I mentioned above, or you can send a message to me directly.

Thanks to all for taking the time to feed back. It really helps us to improve the site.

Adam (Digital Media Manager at CIMA)

Adam - I have a few other issues for the list:

1) The secure areas of the site mix secure with unsecure content;

2) The billing link with Mastercourses needs looking at - my recent experience was comical.  The accounting on the finance side of the fence showed the correct amount billed, but the amount that showed up in my account was different.  It also showed up in the list of fees, but not on the statement.

3) On these boards, the text editor still has a few glitches.  A particularly annoying one is that the 'disable rich text' function often disables all text entry in all fields.  The only way I have found to clear it is to close the session and open a completely new IE8 instance.

With respect to the repeated log-in bug, I find it disappointing this this has not yet been resolved, as it has bedevilled my experience of the site every since it first went live (several years ago now!).

Regards,

Andrew

I am in complete agreement with many of the sentiments on here. I have to say that the myCIMA website is the most user unfriendly experiences that I have on the web today. This part is OK, but the utilities in myCima that are useful in what they are trying to acheive are ruined by the way they are presented and the abysmal navigation, making the whole sensation ten years behind anything else I use online. I have to enter my current password three times in order to change it (once to log in, then again to log in again (why?), then again to change it. Also, if I use any of the links at the top of the web page, it throws me out of the myCima session and I have to log in again. Sometimes i just give up, and come back another day to save my sanity.

Altogether a very poor experince. Considering the quality CIMA and its members (including myself) aspire too - we should expect beter.

Hi all,

Our new head of Web at CIMA has responded to some of the points raised about issues with the new website which you have also made here, including the mutliple login issue which we're aware is very inconvenient and not a good user experience.

http://community.cimaglobal.com/discussions/using-cimasphere/cimaglobalcom-gets-a-makeover

Regards,
Deirdre
(CIMAsphere community manager)

Hi Deirdre

If you look at any other forums on the web it is fairly obvious where everything is, ie if you click on the link to the forum you are usually given a list of all the different areas with a description of each, for example the AAT forum here http://forums.aat.org.uk/

On cimashere (which does look nice) you are presented with a load of lists of latest "things".  Now, lets say I just want to look at paper 8 issues....I quite honestly have no idea where to go. And this is the point, why not just make it obvious as with any other forum on the web?  The link you just posted; if I knew the page existed and wanted to find it again I wouldn't know where to go.

Overall I personally find it very frustrating and on the odd occasion I do use it I tend to wish I hadn't!!

Thanks

John

Hi John,

I emailed you this link:

http://community.cimaglobal.com/discussions

The simplest way to get to that page - as to any of the main section pages on CIMAsphere -  is via the CIMAsphere navigation bar that runs horizontally across the top of the page everywhere on the community directly under the CIMAglobal.com navigation bar.

That navigation bar - if you glance up at it - links to the following sections:

- Discussion Boards

- Groups

- Blogs

- Ask The Expert

- Community Answers

- Community Directory

I think maybe the confusion is arising from the fact that CIMAsphere is not just forums, it's a broader online community site with this suite of different content services based on social media as listed above, forums being just one component of that.

As such, the "homepage" of CIMAsphere has to reflect the latest content from all those areas of the site. It's not an overview of the discussion boards, but of the whole community, so the comparison between AAT's forums and our multi-functional community is not apt.

Alternatively, maybe the reason you haven't noticed the navigation bar is to do with the perceived distance and aloofness of the CIMAsphere navigation bar from the content below it...

We've been trying to get the amount of white space between the CIMAsphere navigation bar and the content below it reduced ever since we launched, but haven't been able to find a technical solution for doing so that would still allow us to display the text-resizing button (the "triple A"). We need to display this text-resizing widget prominently in order to comply with best practice in terms of accessibility for visually impaired readers who may need to view the site in a range of larger text sizes.

However, I appreciate this isn't perfect, and we may need to re-design the homepage in order to acccommodate both improved navigation and accessibility needs.

I hope this goes some way to addressing your comments and helps in some way. Any other or further feedback is always welcome.

No pie necessary :-)

Glad to have helped.

Regards,
Deirdre
(CIMAsphere community manager)

I dont like this new website at all, cannot find anything.... couldnt before really, but eventually got use to it, but even worse now

I cant find where you go to find your exam results, etc... where you pay for registration, etc.  Must say is very very poor

Forgot to add...

CIMA teaches it's students about Project Management & Systems Implementation but can't handle to change it's own home page and make it work.

Would you call this Project a failure and inability to implement a new home page?

MS

Sorry for the tone, but I'm pretty annoyed with this website