Presented at Kuali Days 2010

Kuali Student Curriculum Management

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KS Curriculum Management

Presenters

Carol F. Bershad

Course Delivery Team Lead

University of Washington

Cathy Dew

Program Delivery Team Lead

University of California, Berkeley

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Overview of Presentation

• What is Curriculum Management? • Overview of screens and associated functionality

• What is a Course? • Propose a new course

• Propose a modification to an existing course

• Compare course versions

• What is a Program? • View an existing major

• Modify an existing major

• What is Next?

• What Questions do you have?

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What is Curriculum Management?

Curriculum Management

Courses Create

Programs

Modify

Retire Learning Unit

Proposal Process*

Administrative Screens*

Group

* Delivered in R1.1: 1. Proposal processes for Courses 2. Administrative screens for Course Sets, Programs, Learning Objectives

Find Catalog Ideas

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What is Curriculum Management?

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Course

Format <N>

What is a Course?

• A Course is a learning experience that imparts education through a series of activities such as lectures, labs, recitations, etc. within a well-defined time period.

Format 1

Activity <n>

Activity 2

Activity 1

Learning Objectives

Requirements

Financials

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Course: Proposal Workflows

• Leverages Kuali Enterprise Workflow (KEW)

• Qualified role-based routing, where roles are derived from KS Organization Service

• R1.1 delivered with two reference workflows:

START: Proposer

Division Committee

College

Academic Senate

Publication Office

Department Committee

END

START: Proposer

Division Committee

College

Academic Senate

Publication Office

Publication Office

Department Committee

END

major modification

minor modification

CREATE

MODIFY

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Course: Demos

Create a new course Scenario: Fred Faculty in the Biology Department proposes a new graduate course,

BIOL500 – Graduate Survey of Molecular Genetics. The proposal is submitted and eventually approved.

Modify an existing course Scenario: Fred modifies this course to (1) change the Subject Code and (2) add a

pre-requisite. The modification is approved.

Compare course versions Scenario: Fred compares the two versions of the course.

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Course: Demos

Let’s go look at the application…

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What is a Program?

• What is a Program?* – Baccalaureate

– Graduate (Masters, Doctoral)

– Professional (Law, Medical, Business)

– Certificate

– Minors

– Departmental Honors

– Continuing Education Non-credit Programs

– Learning Communities

*Not a complete list

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Program Design Objectives

Capture Program in a “structured-enough” format to ::

1. Support Curriculum Administrator’s view of programs

2. Capture the way courses are related to programs, via rules

3. Feed a published catalog on one side and (possibly) a degree audit on the other

4. Enable Curriculum Managers to understand the dependencies between programs and courses

5. Provide the basis for program exploration

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Program Design Approach

• Start with Undergraduate – Baccalaureate

– Major

• Specializations (pathway, track)

– General Education Program

– Departmental Honors Program

– Minor

• Dig into Requirements – Associate Courses with Programs

– Capture other conditions to be met for Entrance, Progression and Completion

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Program Business Service

Program Logical Model

BACC “Credential”

General Ed “Core”

Major “Discipline”

Specializations “Variations”

Minor

Departmental Honors

Course

Program Requirements

RULES

Course

Course

Course

1. Entrance

2. Benchmark

Progress

3. Completion

Other Student Attributes

(GPA, Standing)

Program

Program

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Program Requirements

• Program was able to leverage all of the course Rule Types, but also needed additional logic – Total number of credits for the Program

– Must complete 1 or more programs

– Minimum GPA for a course, course set, time period or cumulative

– Admitted to Program before some number of credits is earned

– Program entrance or completion must occur within a timeframe of a milestone, admission to the program

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Major Discipline

Biological Sciences

Cell Biology & Genetics (CEBG)

Ecology & Evolution (ECEV)

General Biology (GENB)

Microbiology (MICB)

Physiology & Neurobiology (PHNB)

Individualized Studies (BIVS)

Key Program Info

Managing Bodies

Program Requirements

Learning Objectives

Supporting Documents

Entrance Requirements

Benchmark Progress Requirements

Completion Requirements

Basic Program (15-16 credits)

Supporting Courses (30-32 credits)

Advanced Program (1 program)

• Must have completed all of

BSCI 105, BSCI 106, BSCI 207,

BSCI 222

with a minimum grade of C

• Must have completed 1 course

from UNIV 100, UNIV 101,

HONR 100, GEMS 100, or

ARHU 105

with a minimum grade of C

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Program: Demos

View Major View Biological Sciences, an undergraduate major with six areas of specialization.

Add a Learning Objective Add a missing Learning Objective including “on-the-fly” creation of a new LO

Category.

Modify a Program Requirement Modify the Basic Program requirement to include an additional course in the set of

possible courses meeting a rule designed to provide students with general exposure to the curriculum.

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Acknowledgments

R1.1 Course Team

Larry Symms, UMD

R1.1 Program Team

Jim Tomlinson, UW

Dan Symonds, UMD

R1.1 Infrastructure Team

Daniel Epstein, UMD

Dave Elyea, Delta

Will Gomes, UMD

Kamal Muthuswamy, UW

Brian Smith, Delta

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What’s Next?

• R1.1 Public Release 1.1 mid-December 2010

• Two implementing institutions – University Of Maryland, College Park

• Course followed by Program starting in January

– University of California, Berkeley

• Early release, exercising business services with custom UI

• Gaps to be addressed part of Maryland’s implementation

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What Questions Do You Have?

• Note cards for Kuali Student Roundtable – Wed 3:30 – 4:30 in Annie

• Configuring Kuali Student – I Did Not Know That You Could Do That With An SIS

– Wed 2:00 – 3:00 in Ford