1. Credit and Pathways Management Road Ahead Feb – Mar 2018
Prepared by Marian Wolmarans
23 January 2018

2. In this Presentation What is the Credit and Pathways Explorer?
What are the benefits?
What is required of me?
What is our proposed timeline?

3. What is the Credit and Pathways Explorer

4. Credit and Pathway Explorer (CPE)
TEQSA requires a public searchable repository of available credit that we offer. CPE will enable this repository by optimising on effort already spent by CSU staff and academics. This repository will serve as a self-serve credit enquiry point for public users.
What will it do?…
The repository will be available to any public user to explore and search all our public precedences, as approved by Course Directors within CPM, as well as our published versions of pathways.
How will it work?…
The following slides offer the preferred look and feel of CPE.

5. What do our prospects want to see?
What prior learning is required for credit?
What CSU course the credit relates to?
How much credit they might be eligible for?
What does the credit mean in terms of remaining study effort?
Next steps to take to have prior learning assessed for credit?

6. Credit and Pathways Explorer Quick Overview of Preferred Look and Feel NOTE: Current version of this feature in QA is not the same to what is presented in this slideshow. The preferred look and feel for this feature are currently under development.

7. CPE landing page (https://creditqa.csu.edu.au/modeller)
Select Option – next slide
Select Option – slide 9
Select Option – slide 13

8. Select CSU courses of interest to explore
Next slide
[More info] link to related OCB for CSU course

9. Enter prior learning details
Next slide

10. [More info] link to related OCB for CSU course
View results after entering prior learning
Credit results show as buttons
List potential pathways as well as precedences that match entered prior learning
Only show result as potential credit as zero, if all prior learning has been assessed as ‘does not transfer’, if not display results as ‘Not yet assessed Apply now’, with hyperlink to online application form
Next slide
[More info] link to related OCB for CSU course

11. View details of potential credit
Pathway details
List details from selected published version of pathway.
List selected precedence details of all public precedences that relate to entered prior learning and CSU course.
Precedence map
Next slide

12. Save workspace to retrieve at a later stage again

13. Retrieve saved workspace

14. Enter search criteria Search across pathways and precedences
Field of Study search – include logic to search ‘sub-fields of study’ as well
Slide 10

15. [More info] link to related OCB for CSU course
View results after entering search criteria
Similar to slide 10
List potential pathways as well as precedences that match search criteria
Instead of precedence map, each precedence that meet the search criteria will be listed individually.
Slide 11
[More info] link to related OCB for CSU course

16. What are the benefits?

17. CPE Benefits Meet TEQSA requirement
Enable self-serve ability to public users
Optimise on Course Director effort spent on credit assessments
Single point of truth for available credit
Consistency in awarding credit
One stop shop for marketing of our pathway partners

18. What is required of me?

19. What are the next steps?
All precedences within CPM will be used by CPE. For CPE to also list details of our current current credit packages, we have to transpose these into CPM.
This will require…..
Review and classify current package details according to credit definition summary (slide 21)
Interim tool packages
FoAE spreadsheet of packages
Web content pages with international packages
Enter package details into CPM, as per their classifications
Approve and publish/make public entered details, to enable CPE to use the information

20. Who will do what? DSA – Credit team CAOs CDs
Enter simple precedences, complex precedences, and pathways into CPM
Approve precedences and pathways as per delegation
CAOs
Review and classify current package details and provide to DSA for data entry (classify according to credit definition summary on next slide)
Support CDs in approving and publishing of precedences and pathways as required
CDs
Review and approve proactive precedences in CPM
Review, approve and publish pathways in CPM

21. Credit Definition Summary
Credit awarded based on decision type
Final approval of original decision by
Can be reused by
Review of decision required?
Managed in CPM via
Equivalency
Course Director
Course Director only
When reused
Equivalency Management
Precedence
Articulated
OGEP involvement not required; not formally documented;
Other provider/provider group not formally notified of available credit
Simple precedence
Simple prior learning requirement;
Specific credit outcome
Delegated Credit Officer /
Course Admin Officer /
Yes (3 years) /
On significant CSU course/subject change?
Complex precedence
Requirement could include work experience;
Has a range of available credit that requires academic interpretation
Pathway Management
Pathway
Formally documented
Formal Agreement
Articulated /
Integrated
OGEP involvement required
Standard by Executive Dean
Non-standard by Academic Senate
Yes (3 years)
Letter of Credit Acknowledgement
Academic Handbook
OGEP not involvement required
Standard by Faculty Courses Committee
As per course review cycle

22. Proposed timeline