Curriculum Planning System Overview
Login Link: https://ucsb.my.site.com/cps/s/
Home Page
Home: The home page
Departments: Allows for management of departments/courses that you manage
Curriculum Plans: View and edit Curriculum Plans, Course Offerings, and Ledgers for the departments you manage
People Management: Update and view Instructors departmental affiliations and Annual Workloads
Reports: View and export summary reports
Help Center: View documentation and submit tickets for bugs.
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.
Highlights panel: displays important fields related to the status of the Curriculum Plan. Only “Draft Copy” and “Working Copy” Curriculum Plans are editable.
Curriculum Plan Summary: displays a summary of costs per term. These fields are calculated based off of the Course Offerings on the Curriculum plan.
Actions: Depending on your permissions, here is where you would take approval actions or submit your plan for approval.
The Curriculum Plan Editor
Search box: Search for a course on all fields (instructor, term, amount, approval status, etc…)
Edit Columns: Rearrange and hide columns for this curriculum plan.
Reset Columns: Reset columns to their default configuration
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.
Refresh: Refresh the data in the editor, unsaved changes will be lost.
Fullscreen: Open the editor in full screen, click again to return to the page.
Show More/Show Less buttons: expand the course sections to view more courses at once (helpful for larger plans)
Selection boxes: use the boxes on the left to select and edit multiple course offerings. the box at the header will Select/Deselect all.
View Course offering button: Open the associated course offering in a new tab.
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.