Faculty Information/Curriculum Management

Date: April 2-29, 1999

Instructor: Laura Preisman

Description: The Faculty Information and Curriculum Management modules provide the structure and tools to assist you in managing faculty assignments and workload and to support your academic program management activities.

Curriclum Management allows you to maintain academic program definitions, including program requirements, affiliation to catalog year,and historical program and catalog information. This module is used to define and maintain courses and course section records, including course descriptions, active dates, requisite and restrictions, faculty and meeting assignments, status changes, enrollment limitations, wait-list options, and special course charges. In addition, it aids with making scheduling decisions by providing reports on enrollment trends which help you create schedules for block registration.

Faculty Information enables you to document teaching qualifications, faculty schedules, course section teaching assignments, workload measures, and affiliations to organizational memberships. In addition, it includes an advising components for enhanced student services which allows for student advisor and counselor assignments, viewing and maintaining advise academic program information and viewing academic progress evaluations. This module accommodates decentralized business processes in which faculty can perform registration and grading functions for their desk tops.

Purpose: The Faculty Information/Curriculum Management class provides key decision makers and administrators with the knowledge to begin implementation of the Faculty Information and Curriculum Management modules. Course objectives are achieved through a combination of lecture, discussion and hands-on exercises. Specifically, this class provides:

• Information required for module setup
• A high level overview of the required and optional data
• A review of reporting capabilities for academic planning and review
• An overview of these modules relationships to other Colleague modules
• A file structure overview of the modules

Audience:

• Computer center and project management staff responsible for managing and implementing the Colleague product
• Course developers and schedulers responsible for maintaining course information and faculty assignments
• Key advising faculty and personnel who will use the product for student advisement
• Academic administrators responsible for implementing curricula

Prerequisite:

• Completion of the Envision Terms and Concepts computer-based tutorial
• Completion of the Student System computer-based tutorial
• Completion of the Colleague Core Concepts class (or equivalent)
• Review of the Implementation Approach Document
• Knowledge of your academic personnel classification structure and responsibilities
• Familiarity with your institution's curricula

Course Length: Three days - 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.