1 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Student Planning Using Pseudo Courses in Curriculum Tracks Jen VanGilder and Julia Bies Ellucian April 16, 2015 Session 12849

2 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Session rules of etiquette Please turn off your cell phone/pager If you must leave the session early, please do so as discreetly as possible Please avoid side conversation during the session Thank you for your cooperation!

3 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Introduction This session will show Colleague clients how to incorporate pseudo courses into curriculum tracks when there are some choices/electives. A basic overview of curriculum tracks will be provided, as well as a detailed demonstration of how to build pseudo courses, & use them in a curriculum track. The session will allow time for questions/answers and discussion. Attendees will learn how to create curriculum tracks for their institutions and incorporate pseudo courses in curriculum areas where student have a choice of courses/electives.

4 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Outline 1.What are Curriculum Tracks? 2.How do you build Curriculum Tracks? 3.What are Pseudo Courses? 4.How can Pseudo Courses be used in Curriculum Tracks? 5.Questions and Answers

5 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session What are Curriculum Tracks

6 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session What are Curriculum Tracks? A Curriculum Track is a recommended sequence of courses for a student to take for a particular program. Curriculum Tracks are built on CUTK and CSBL.

7 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session How do you build Curriculum Tracks?

8 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Curriculum Tracks – CUTK (an example)

9 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Curriculum Blocks – CSBL (an example)

10 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Logging Curriculum Tracks and Curriculum Blocks

11 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Logging Curriculum Tracks and Curriculum Blocks

12 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Best Practices for Building Curriculum Tracks Follow your typical naming conventions. Log your Curriculum Tracks and Curriculum Blocks. Adhere to your institution’s catalog or other official materials. Pre-date the Curriculum Tracks. Link Curriculum Tracks to Programs. Consider a default Curriculum Track to use.

13 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session What are Pseudo Courses?

14 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session What are Pseudo Courses? Pseudo courses can be used for different reasons: They can be used to award a student credit for a transfer course which is not a direct course-for-course equivalent. They can be used as a placeholder course in Student Planning to represent a requirement in which the student has a choice between courses/electives.

15 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Pseudo Courses Pseudo courses are created on the CRSE form, and can adhere to similar values as other native courses.

16 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Pseudo Courses Consider department, title, level, course title etc…. And track the Pseudo courses that you will create.

17 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Best Practices for Building Pseudo Courses Build your Pseudo Courses on a spreadsheet. Discuss and decide on course numbering, course titles, descriptions, requisites, etc. Be consistent. Consider whether or not you want to include these Pseudo Courses in the Course Catalog search in Student Planning. If you decide to hide these Pseudo Courses in the Course Catalog, remember to create the “Do Not Show” value on Course Types and assign it to your Pseudo Courses to suppress them. Test! Test! Test!

18 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Loading a Curriculum Track On the Progress view, select

19 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Pseudo Courses used in Student Planning Timeline View of a Pseudo Course

20 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Pseudo Courses in Student Planning View when you click on a Pseudo Course

21 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Pseudo Courses used in Student Planning Course Catalog view of a Pseudo Course

22 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Pseudo Courses in Student Planning Progress view of Pseudo Courses

23 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Next Steps… Determine sequence of courses for a program. Determine needs and naming conventions. Build the Pseudo Course spreadsheet. Build Pseudo Courses in CRSE; remember to hide the course if that’s what you decide. Build Curriculum Tracks. Build Course Blocks. Attach to Program.

24 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Important Step if you Hide Pseudo Courses! Hiding Pseudo Courses in Student Planning 1.Go to VAL 2.Type in ST 3.Type in Course.Types 4.Add a line item for Do Not Show, along with the Special Processing code of “P”

25 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Questions?

26 © 2015 ELLUCIAN. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY | Session Thank you! Jen VanGilder and Julia Bies Please complete the online session evaluation form. Session 12849