Getting ready to modify a course, program, or addendum?

Please allow time to do a course slo aggregate or degree/certificate assessment and reflect on the success data. Build on assessment!

Whether you are modifying an existing outline or drafting a new one, you must log into CurrIQunet, use the "Create Proposal" button, and choose the correct course or program (degree/certificate) "proposal type" option. Everything is a "proposal" in CurrIQunet, be it an outline, addendum, or an assessment.

• Please choose the correct proposal type. When modifying active curricula or reactivating historical curricula, follow the search and select steps carefully. For visual guidance, see the Abridged CurrIQunet Manual (Curriculum Focus).
• When modifying a course outline, please also modify the DEA and/or honors addendum attached to it. Thanks!
• It's also important to look at an impact report, especially when a modification involves a unit-hours change or a course is being deactivated.

Please also use the documents linked below to ensure that you are following current outline and addenda standards. Thank you.

• If you are new to the curriculum writing process or need a refresher, please view this slideshow, browse the Curriculum Resources page, and use the crib notes below.
• Is your outline going to expire (i.e., exceed its 6-year shelf life from Curriculum Committee approval date)?
• Remember, all degrees and certificates must also include a narrative. See Guide to Supplemental Docs for Programs and the narrative templates below.
• For a sense of how outlines enter and move through tech review, see this timeline and process document.
• Use ramid.ccsf.edu to access CurrIQunet.

Outline writers and reviewers, please use these crib notes and checklists

• Course Outline Crib Notes
• NEW--Annotated Methodology Section Example
• The Down and Dirty Course Outline Checklist 
• Course Outline of Record TRACE* Checklist 
• Program (Degree/Certificate) Crib/TRACE Checklist 
  • AA-T/AS-T outlines must follow a CCCCO-approved template
    • Credit program narrative template (for AA/AS/CAch narratives)
    • Noncredit program narrative template
• Work Experience Education Outline (WEE) Crib/TRACE 
• DEA Crib Notes (for the new DEA form)
  * Technical Review Avoiding Common Errors (TRACE)

Ready to rock? Please log into ramid.ccsf.edu to use CurrIQunet and make curriculum magic.

Outcomes, Hours, and Units

• Learning Outcomes at CCSF: Course (SLO), Program (PSLO). Gen Ed (GELO), and Institutional (ILO)
• Bloom's Taxonomy and Outcomes Writing Guide
• Hours and Units Calculations Quickguide - for checking hours and units
  • Units = [Total contact time + homework time] divided by 52.5 and then round down.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Curriculum

• Moving the Needle: Equity, Cultural Responsiveness, and Anti-Racism in the Course Outline of Record
• DEI in Curriculum: Model Principles and Practices
• Curriculum Handbook DEI checklist

Is it a GE course? Which GE areas are being satisfied or requested?

• Look at the most recent CCSF gen ed worksheet.
• The course's learning outcomes must map to the gen ed learning outcomes (GELO).
• Guiding Notes for GE Course Review
• More on general education at CCSF
• Non Ethnic Studies departments (e.g., SOC, ART, or HIST) proposing an Ethnic Studies course must cross list with NAIS, LALS, ASAM, AFAM, or ETHN. Prior to proposing the course to the Curriculum Committee, consultation with the appropriate department chair is required, as is completion of this form to help ensure that the course meets Ethnic Studies expectations.

Distance Ed Addenda

• New distance ed addenda may be created directly in CurrIQunet by departments, but the Distance Learning Advisory Committee (DLAC), a Shared Governance Committee, reviews the application for a faculty member to develop a new online course.
• Review the steps for developing an online course.
• Modes of instruction and approvals for emergency remote instruction
• DEA compliance standards agreed to during the addendum creation process (fall '23)

If you are proposing a new course or program, please consider the following:

• Do our students truly need this course or program? Search the active programs and courses to be certain.
• Instead of creating a new course, could an already existing course--in or out of your department--be modified?
• Does the department have the resources, personnel, and facilities to support this new course or program?
• Which courses or programs could be deactivated to "make room" for new offerings?
• What role will a new course play in programs or transfer?
• Does the course number make sense, and has it ever been used before?

Reminders

• When modifying a course, you must look at the IMPACT REPORTS of the active and historical versions of the course to see if degree, certificate, or requisite changes will also need to happen. If the course is in another department’s program, communicate with them. This is especially crucial if there is a unit, hour, or name change, as that will have catalog implications. Please document Impact Report info (copy/paste) and intradepartmental communication in CurrIQunet’s Internal Notes section. Thank you.
• If the ToP Code or units change during a Certificate of Achievement modification for a 16+ unit program that already qualifies students for financial aid, this could temporarily prevent a student from receiving financial aid. Please consult the Dean of Financial Aid about the Dept of Education process involved.
• A certificate of accomplishment cannot simply be modified into a certificate of achievement; that must be a new proposal, and it should correspond with deactivation of the certificate of accomplishment.
• Course and program aggregate reports must be launched within 18 months prior to outline modification submissions. (NOTE--Addenda modifications do not require an aggregate assessment.) These assessment reports pull together the results of individual section-level reports and should inform outline revision. Allow time for analysis, reflection, and conversation. Consult your chair or course/program coordinator about the currency of the aggregate report you need.

Please use the CurrIQunet assessment and search guides.

CurrIQunet Curriculum Support

• Abridged CurrIQunet Manual (w/ a curriculum focus!)
• Create or Modify Course Outline or Addenda Task Guide
• Create or Modify Major or Certificate Task Guide 
• For questions on the software, request help through the CurrIQunet Support Request form.

Help guide your proposal through the workflow

You are not done yet! Your active participation in ensuring that your proposal moves through the reviews and approvals process in a timely manner is usually necessary. Help move your proposal through by checking the status in CurrIQunet, by carefully and thoroughly responding to all communications about your proposal, and by bringing it to the attention of those who need to sign off on it.

Timely completion of stipulations (after the Curriculum Committee meeting)

When a proposal is reviewed by the Curriculum Committee during a meeting and stipulations (changes) are requested, those stipulations will be posted in CurrIQunet after the meeting.  Check the approvals queue and watch for emailed notifications.

• Changes must be made and resubmitted within CurrIQunet within a short time period, as posted on the Curriculum Committee Calendar.
• Proposals approved with stipulations that are not resubmitted correctly in a timely manner may be moved back to the department chair to start over again.