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Curriculum Planning System Overview

Curriculum Planning System Overview

Owned by Landon Moir
Aug 06, 2024
2 min read

Login Link: https://ucsb.my.site.com/cps/s/

Home Page

  1. Home: The home page

  2. Departments: Allows for management of departments/courses that you manage

  3. Curriculum Plans: View and edit Curriculum Plans, Course Offerings, and Ledgers for the departments you manage

  4. People Management: Update and view Instructors departmental affiliations and Annual Workloads

  5. Reports: View and export summary reports

  6. Help Center: View documentation and submit tickets for bugs.

  7. Open curriculum plans that you own.

Curriculum Plan Page

To view a curriculum plan, click on its name on the home page, or in the Curriculum Plans page.

  1. Highlights panel: displays important fields related to the status of the Curriculum Plan. Only “Draft Copy” and “Working Copy” Curriculum Plans are editable.

  2. Curriculum Plan Summary: displays a summary of costs per term. These fields are calculated based off of the Course Offerings on the Curriculum plan.

  3. Actions: Depending on your permissions, here is where you would take approval actions or submit your plan for approval.

The Curriculum Plan Editor

  1. Search box: Search for a course on all fields (instructor, term, amount, approval status, etc…)

  2. Edit Columns: Rearrange and hide columns for this curriculum plan.

  3. Reset Columns: Reset columns to their default configuration

  4. Autosave Toggle: By default, the Curriculum Plan Editor saves your changes as you make them, but if you wish to change to manual saving, click here.

  5. Refresh: Refresh the data in the editor, unsaved changes will be lost.

  6. Fullscreen: Open the editor in full screen, click again to return to the page.

  7. Show More/Show Less buttons: expand the course sections to view more courses at once (helpful for larger plans)

  8. Selection boxes: use the boxes on the left to select and edit multiple course offerings. the box at the header will Select/Deselect all.

  9. View Course offering button: Open the associated course offering in a new tab.

  10. Columns: click on a column to sort the course offerings by it.

Adding a course to a plan.

To add a course offering to a curriculum plan, use the Course Catalog Selector below the Curriculum Plan Editor.

 

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