Catalog content contributors are prohibited from directly editing a page in the UCSB Catalog in CourseDog. Rather, they are required to submit a change request for the page itself, and once submitted, that request will be sent to the Registrar’s office for final quality control and submission into the catalog.
This article will give instructions on how to submit a change request for a Catalog page.
Select ‘Catalog’ from the available products.
Upon logging into CourseDog you will either be immediately redirected to the ‘Your Products’ screen, and it looks like this:
Or you can select the product from the bento menu button in the upper right corner of the screen:
Search for the page you would like to submit a change request for.
Once you navigate to the page from the search results, it will be displayed with several options available to you, listed in the dialog box in the right column:
From here, select the ‘Request Changes’ option
You will be redirected to the Request Catalog Page Changes screen.
Input a reason for the change, this is a required field:
Make your changes to the body of the page:
Once you have completed your changes, you can view those changes on the fly by selecting the ‘View Changes’ option in the upper right dialog box:
And a new screen pops up that shows your changes compared to the original text:
Once your changes are complete and you’ve provided a reason for the changes, click the ‘Submit Request’ button:
Your request will be added to the Registrar’s review step and you will be notified when your change request is approved or rejected.
