Cymraeg
  1. About this guide
  2. What makes a resource suitable for Hwb
  3. Choosing the right topic area for your resource
  4. Developing educational resources
  5. Hwb criteria and publishing options
  6. Roles and responsibilities
  7. Quality assurance, content design and copyright
  8. Accessibility requirements
  9. Welsh language standards
  10. Check and submit your resource

Hwb criteria and publishing options

Before developing or submitting your resource, read What makes a resource suitable for Hwb to understand the purpose of Hwb, the types of content published as Hwb resources, and the requirements for publication. This will help you decide whether your content is suitable for publication on Hwb.

If your content is suitable, you then need to check it meets Hwb’s publishing criteria. These requirements are outlined in the following sections and must be met before your resource can be submitted for review.

Hwb publishing criteria

Resources must:

Resources must not:

  • link to websites that require a further login or request for details

  • promote any product, service or organisation where there is any commercial activity

  • force a user to purchase anything in order to access or use the resource

Publishing options

Resources should only live in one place. There are two options for publishing resources on Hwb.

Hosting

If your resource is not available elsewhere online it can be stored directly (hosted) on Hwb’s platform. This means users can access and use the resource from Hwb without needing to visit another website.

Resources hosted on Hwb must comply with accessibility requirements and Welsh language standards.

You must ensure any links on your website direct users to the Hwb-hosted resource.

Meic Cymru gives examples of how to do this.

Signposting

This means the resource is not stored on Hwb. Hwb will provide users with a link to a HTTPS secure bilingual external website. Users will need to visit the external website to access the resource. For example, if your resources are already hosted on your website, we can link directly to them from Hwb, like BBC Bitesize.