The Course Settings tab allows you to control which courses will appear on the Course Planner and future reports in eTRACS. In the Course Planner, these settings will be helpful in filtering out courses not intended for course planning and assisting with cross-faculty planning for service, pathway, and minor courses. The Course Setting also provides other information about the course for reporting purposes, such as determining if the course has a final exam and/or requires course evaluations.
In the Course Profile, click on the Course Settings tab.
Click the button to edit the information in Course Settings.
Check all the settings that apply to the course (see below for detailed description).
When you are done editing the information, you can click the button to save your changes. If you do not want to save the information, you can click and your changes will not be saved.
Organizing the Planner View in the Course Planner
To hide courses that are not intended for planning, click the:
Hide from Course Plannercheckbox → This will not delete any course profiles or course offerings. You may uncheck the box anytime when you wish to view the course in the Course Planner.
Using Course Settings
The following settings will help classify the different types of course profiles within your faculty/department. These settings will be used for filtering purposes and customization of the course planner view once the course profiles have been set up:
Settings
Definition
Course Planning Implications (To be built in the future)
Transfer Credit Course
Courses that are for equivalencies for students when they register.
If course is identified as a 'transfer credit' course, it may be flagged to allow filtering in the planner.
Service Course
Large lower-division courses taken by students from many faculties.
If course is identified as being a 'service' course, it can be added by departments outside of the primary owner to their planning tool to enhance interdepartmental curriculum management. However, editing can only be done by the course owner.
May need to set up special alerts in cases of service course cancellations.
Pathway Course
Provide key pre-requisites needed for students to progress from lower-division to upper-division courses.
If course is identified as a 'pathway' course, it may be flagged to allow filtering in the planner.
Minor Course
Designated course that meets the requirements coverage of a subject area less complete than that necessary for a major.
If course is identified as being part of the minor pathway, it becomes part of a 'minor' filter in the planner.
Credit Course
Course counts for credit
If course is identified as a 'non-credit' course (unchecked box), it may be flagged to allow filtering in the planner.
Has Instructor Education Requirements
Course requires instructor to have a certain education level
Optional field to ensure that a course gets assigned to an instructor with the required education level in the Course Planner.
These settings will also be used for future reports and pages:
Settings
Effect on Future Reports & Pages (To be built in the future)
Has Final Exam
This checkbox will impact how courses appear on future reports, such as the Course Offering Final Exam worksheet.
Has Course Evaluations
This checkbox will list this course in the Course Evaluations page to be built in the future.
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