For SL&L institutions that are using System Administration to create and update core data (i.e., organizations, users, courses, sections, enrollments, etc.), Administrators can use the Program Curriculum feature from System Administration to align courses with programs.
Please refer to the following help center articles for more information on the Program Curriculum feature:
The relation between a program and a course is different from the relationship between an organizational node (i.e., departments, colleges, schools, units, etc.) and a course.
While the relationship between a course and an organizational node is a 1 to 1 relationship (i.e., one course can only be associated with one organizational node) where an organizational node is the parent of/owns a course, a course's relationship to a program is a 1:many relationship (i.e., the same course can be associated with multiple programs across the hierarchy).
This unique relationship between a course and a program (that can be set up using the Program Curriculum feature in System Administration) enables institutions to:
- More clearly map their courses to relevant programs without the need to create duplicate versions of the course.
- Provide program leads access to relevant courses without having to add them as leads to the parent organizations of those courses.
Program Curriculum offers this flexibility alongside providing most of the same functional ability for a course as is available when the course is accessed from its parent node, e.g.:
- Enabling/Disabling Internship Features for Courses.
- Adding Templates to courses.
- Adding time log categories to courses.
- Setting up Activity Schedules for courses.
- Adding Supervisor, Mentor, and Additional Assessor enrollments to course sections.
- Creating Activities within course sections.
- Editing activities, rolling back submissions, and force submitting activities.
Given programs are a part of the organizational hierarchy, program leads would have access to rubrics and templates based on the hierarchical order of the program through which they access a course. This is similar to the access an organizational node lead would have based on the hierarchical order of the organizational node for which they are a node admin.
Current limitations of the Program Curriculum feature in SL&L:
- The ability to bulk close sections is not functional when a course is accessed from a program.
- New Placement Management doesn't presently provide access to placements based on a course's association to programs.
- Though the Rubric and Standard Reports offer the ability to filter results by programs, the same ability is not yet available in Comparative Data Reports.