Curriculum Strategy API

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Overview

This article outlines the API and integration options available for institutions using the Catalog and Curriculum Management modules. The Catalog Content API allows administrators to sync narrative, course, and program data directly to an institution's website, ensuring information remains consistent across platforms. For curriculum workflows, the Ethos Integration enables a seamless data push from Curriculum Strategy back to Ellucian Student Information Systems (SIS). Both solutions require coordination with IT departments and adherence to specific technical requirements or versioning. Overall, these tools are designed to streamline data management and maintain accuracy between academic modules and external institutional systems.

Catalog Content API

Institutions using our Catalog Module may choose to set up an API. This API will allow administrators to share catalog content directly through the institution's website. This allows users to update narrative, course, or program information in a single system, ensuring it is shared across both the catalog and institution websites. Whether you want to share some or all of your catalog data on the institution's website, Curriculum Strategy can provide the steps to create that relationship between the catalog and the institution's sites.

This will require assistance from the institution’s IT department. Documentation is available upon request for building an API. Curriculum Strategy offers several APIs, including APIs with the option to pull custom data, so please let us know what content you would like to extract from the Catalog Module to ensure we provide you with the most accurate information. As you add content to the system, your API needs may change. Please submit a support ticket if you have any questions or if you need to add new content to your current API pulls.

A horizontal process flow diagram. It begins with an icon of a user at a laptop labeled 'Catalog user makes updates to the catalog content.' An arrow points to a globe and book icon labeled 'This data is published to the Catalog website.' A second arrow leads to a workflow node icon labeled 'Publishing the data will update the API.' A final arrow points to a globe icon labeled 'Your institution's site makes a call to the API, which updates the content on the institution's website,' ending with the text 'Editors only need to make the change in one place.'

Ethos Integration - Curriculum Management

Institutions using our Curriculum Management Module may choose to set up an integration with Ellucian using the Ethos API. The integration between Curriculum Strategy and the Ethos API is meant to close the loop on the Curriculum Management process and is designed to push course data created and modified through the Curriculum Management process back to the Student Information System.

A step-by-step process flow diagram showing how course data is synced across systems. The flow includes: the institution first supplies a CSV of course data, which the CS then imports for use in both the Catalog and Curriculum Management (CM). Next, CM proposals utilize this data to populate forms, allowing faculty members to load specific course forms and propose necessary changes. These proposed changes are then reviewed and approved before the new courses or modifications are moved into the catalog. Finally, the updated information is pushed to the Student Information System (SIS) via an integration tool, ensuring that the course data in the catalog and SIS remain fully in sync.

Minimum Requirements

Watermark supports Ellucian Ethos API, v16.0.0, which requires the following minimum SIS-specific API versions for activation of this connection in Curriculum Strategy:

  • Banner Ethos API, v9.17
  • Colleague Ethos API, v1.25

If your institution meets these requirements and would like to pursue this API, please see the following Academy option: Ethos Integration

If you are in need of technical assistance to make changes to your existing Ethos integration, please register for the 1x change offer by clicking the link for the following Academy offering: Curriculum Management Technical Consultation - One Time Change Request

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