Creating or Editing a Landscape
Curriculog is connected to the College Catalog database (Acalog). This allows for the easy import of data between them.
The Landscape (Prospective Curriculum) field is specific to Program proposals and is where you will build curriculum structures into your program and attach courses from the catalog.
In Curriculog, users build programs using a series of cores, sub-cores and even shared cores – matching the format of Catalog so that the two systems can easily communicate with one another and allow for the easy import of data between them.
Each core created can have a title, description, and courses attached to them. You can have any number of cores, multiple levels of cores – and even shared cores which allows for data to be shared across multiple programs.
The Prospective Curriculum field is specific to Program type proposals and is where you will build cores into your program and attach courses.
The Curriculum section has two views available: View Curriculum Schema and View Curriculum Courses.
View Curriculum Courses will be the default view, as courses must first be attached under View Curriculum Courses to be available for use within Cores under View Curriculum Schema. You will have the options of importing courses or manually adding them.
NOTE: If the “Import Course” option is not available, you will need to contact an Administrator to grant you permission to import.
To manually add a course, you will need to provide a Prefix, Code and Name for that course. This option should be used sparingly, ideally for courses that may be going through a proposal at the same time and do not yet exist in the course catalog.
NOTE: It is not advised to add courses manually to the Landscape. This can occur if course proposals are running through the curriculum process (in Curriculog) when the program proposal is in process (in Curriculog). Talk to a Curriculum Administrator to determine the best plan and timeline for a new program or program modification.
The best practice for bringing in new courses to use within your proposal is to import them from the catalog. To import a course, select “Import Course.” A pop-up window will display, providing a list of any catalogs your administrator has made available to you. Select the catalog you would like to import from.
NOTE: If the “Import Course” option is not available, you will need to contact an administrator to grant you permission to import.
Next, you will be presented with filter options that may be used to find the course you would like to import. The search will default to searching through all courses, but you may use the “add filter” drop-down menu to select additional filtering options. Each option allows you to select a field from the courses template that you can then enter a value to search on.
Once you have added at least one filter, you cannot leave the field blank when you search, or you will receive zero results. It will also not accept partial searches – for example, ‘ACC’ will not return any results for ‘ACCT’; but you can use the * as a wildcard. Entering ‘ACC*’ for example, would return ‘ACCT’ courses.
The “Exclude previously imported items” checkbox is a toggle that would remove items that have been imported by any user from your list of search results. If unchecked, the items would appear in your results but would be italicized to indicate that they have been imported previously. It will not prevent you from importing the item a second time; it will just serve as an indicator.
NOTE: It is a good idea to leave the "Exclude previously imported items" box UNCHECKED.
When reviewing the search results, you can click on them to add them to the proposal, and they will be added to the “Selected Courses” area at the bottom of the page. Selected courses will be indicated in a darker gold color.
When all the courses have been selected, click on “Add Courses to Proposal”.
Once courses are added, they will be listed in the “View Curriculum Courses” section of the proposal. If you would like to remove any, you can hover over them and a blue delete icon will appear – clicking it will remove the course from the list.
Cores
Now that courses have been added, they can be used within cores. To create a core, select “View Curriculum Schema”. Next, you will need to decide if you are going to create a New Core or if you are going to import an existing Shared Core from Modern Campus Catalog.
When you choose “Import Core”, it will launch Integration Manager, asking you to select the catalog you’d like to use. Next, you will be presented with a filter, allowing you search for a specific Shared Core to import.
When you select a Shared Core, it will be added to the list of available cores on the “View Curriculum Schema” schema tab, with a padlock symbol.
The Shared Core can be expanded for review by clicking on it, displaying the description and any attached courses or custom text that may be associated. Contents within a Shared Core cannot be modified within the program. This includes modifications to the title, description, courses associated, or any sub-cores. To make any modification to a Shared Core, you will need to create a new proposal and choose ‘Shared Core’ in the Program Type field.
When you click “New Core”, a new core will be added within the “View Curriculum Schema” tab with the default title of “New Core.” To modify the core, click on the “New Core” row. The box will expand displaying additional options, including a title and description field.
Replacing the title will update the text in the blue bar. The description field may or may not have a WYSIWYG editor available, depending upon the settings your administrator has selected.
NOTE: It is recommended that you consult a Curriculum Administrator before building, importing or editing the Landscape Schema.
When you select “Add Courses” a dialogue box will display with courses that you may choose from. The courses in this list are populated based on the courses you have previously added on the “View Curriculum Courses” tab – if you do not see a course that you need to add, you will need to return to that tab to add it first before you can add it to your core. When you select a course, it will be highlighted blue. Once you’ve selected all the courses you would like to attach to the core, select “Add Course” and they will be listed under your core.
If the courses are not listed in the order you would like them, you may drag and drop the courses into the correct order. The courses will save automatically once you release them.
If you wish to remove any courses, hover over them and click on the blue delete icon to remove them. Removing them from the core does not remove them from the “View Curriculum Courses” tab, and you may use the course within other cores in this program.
Custom Text may be used to place text between courses – similar to the way that Ad-hoc text is used within Modern Campus Catalog. Clicking “Add Custom Text” will display a dialogue box where you may enter text. When creating a new piece of Custom Text you can determine the position of the text and assign the credit hours for the Custom Text. The Custom Text positioning is required and will default to “Below”. The credit hour information is housed in Catalog within the Ad-hoc text as the “Credits/Units” field. This information can now be created and imported back into the catalog. If your administrator has enabled rich text, you will be able to format the Custom Text using the provided WYSIWYG editor. When you are done entering your text, select “Add Text”.
NOTE: You must add at least one course before you can add Custom Text.
Once Custom Text has been added, it can be modified by selecting the pencil icon to the right of it – or removed by selecting the blue delete
. You may also drag the Custom Text up or down throughout the list of courses to place it where you would like.
After you’ve finished making changes to a core, you may collapse it by selecting the gray bar displaying the core title.
When you hover over a core - two icons will appear. To the left of the core title, you will see a gray icon which allows you to drag and drop the core, and the blue delete
icon which will allow you to delete the core. If you choose to delete a core, you will see a dialogue box appear asking you to confirm if you would like to delete the core. Deleting the core will delete the title, description, and associated courses and Custom Text – although the courses will remain available within the “View Curriculum Courses” tab for use within other cores in the program. Each time you add a new core – either manually or by importing a Shared Core, it will appear at the bottom of the list.
Selecting the grey icon will enable drag-and-drop functionality to move the core. If you would like to create a sub-core– meaning you would like to have a core appear below and indented under another–you will need to drag the second core down below the desired parent core, then move it in to the right to fall below the desired core. When you release the core, the ordering will save automatically.
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Cores cannot be re-parented beneath a Shared Core, and Shared Cores and cannot be re-parented beneath a core. The programs and Shared Cores within Modern Campus Curriculum will follow the same rules and structure that they do within Modern Campus Catalog to ensure that they can send data back and forth. The system will prompt you with a reminder if you attempt to parent a Shared Core in a way that is not permitted. You may create as many levels of sub-cores as needed to develop your program. The third option available within the Prospective Curriculum field is the Preview Curriculum. You may use the Preview Curriculum at any time to preview the Prospective Curriculum field. |
The preview will open a new window and display the contents of the Prospective Curriculum field with each core expanded. You will be able to see the title and description for each core, as well as the prefix, code, and name for each course that has been attached, and any associated Custom Text.
The preview will reflect the structure of your cores and indicate which are Shared Cores for reference.
The top right corner of the preview will contain three options – print , Show Curriculum Preview
, and Show Curriculum Preview with Markup
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Print will launch your browser’s print option to print this screen. Show Curriculum Preview with Markup – provided your administrator has enabled the user tracking – will indicate in green anything that has been added and indicate in red anything that has been removed. It will not specify which user performed which action in this view – you would need to use the “User Tracking” tool to see that level of detail. To return to the preview, you would choose the Show Curriculum Preview icon again or close the window to return to the program to make further modifications.