Course Code Webinar February 2015 Welcome! The goal of the webinar is to provide an overview of the Statewide Standard Course Code mapping process. We will begin the webinar shortly Dial in number is 1-866-764-6750 Data Pipeline support email is datapipeline.support@cde.state.co.us

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Statewide Standard Course Codes February 2015

Statewide Common Course Codes What are Statewide Common Course Codes? Why we are doing this? History Documentation How to replicate courses? Questions?

Goal Districts map local course codes to a statewide standard course code Provides common course codes across the state Makes communication easier when talking about courses Transcripts

Clarification Districts are not required to change their local course codes. Districts should map to the best choice for the statewide standard course codes All courses should be mapped District courses where educator has an EDID are the priority Concurrent enrollment and preschool are lower priority

What are Statewide Common Course Codes ? Based on the Secondary School Course Classification System: School for Exchange of Data (SCED) National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) U.S. Department of Education Five digit common codes for all courses PK-12 First two digits subject area Last three digits content

What are Statewide Common Course Codes ? Majority of subject areas are covered Secondary (Middle School and High School) Over 1800 course codes Subject areas 01 - 22 Prior-to-secondary (Elementary and Middle School) About 500 codes Subject areas 51-73

Statewide Common Course Codes Sample course codes and definitions Majority of focus on secondary grades Example of Chemistry choices

Statewide Common Course Codes Example of PK/Elementary course codes Example of Elementary Chemistry choices

Statewide Common Course Codes Example of PK/Elementary course codes Example of Integrated/Other Science choices

Statewide Common Course Codes Fields required on common course codes Course SCED Course level Remedial (B), General (default) (G), Honors (E), Not applicable (X) Credit or grade span Typical High School Carnegie unit (1 hour per day for a year is 1 credit hour) Elementary grade span example: 3rd and 4th grade (0304) Sequence Part “n of m”

Statewide Common Course Codes Example

Why do we need course codes? Transcripts Courses are the link between teacher and student Required for teacher student data link Teacher student data link interchange is open Teacher student data link snapshot opens in April All districts are required to map courses

History In 2012-2013 school year all districts mapped courses 2013-2014 some districts maintained their courses 2014-2015 all districts need to map courses Simple process of replicating course codes forward to the current year Export courses and update the mappings and reload Complete by March 26th

Documentation Documentation can be found at: http://www.cde.state.co.us/datapipeline/standardcodesprojectdetails SCED Code documentation under additional resources http://www.cde.state.co.us/datapipeline/faq-sced Template and training materials available on this site 16

How do I map courses codes for 2014-2015 school year? Districts can copy work forward from 2012-2013 or 2013-2014 school year to the 2014-2015 school year. Upload a file from information system extract Ongoing process Adjust codes as necessary

Replicate course code demo Replicate course codes – (QA link for demo) Export course mappings and reupload Export course mappings Change in Excel Export to tab delimited Upload into the system QA system for demonstration

Questions?????? Questions Kevin Smith (303) 866-6723 (303) 866-6723   smith_kevin@cde.state.co.us Or visit http://www.cde.state.co.us/datapipeline/standardcodesprojectdetails