Hello,
Since Banner Student allows for some level of what I'm going to call "Versioning," we tend towards updating the currently active course. This aligns with us using CourseLeaf for Catalog and Course management, which leans towards only creating a new course when there is functionally something different between courses being offered. So our normal protocol is to use the Copy button for a course in SCACRSE through Banner, which essentially sets a version of the course starting at the specified term (and ending the previous iteration at that term). I would suppose that the cutoff is rather arbitrary, but I think a thing that keeps people from changing course numbers for minor changes at MSU is the approval process itself, which is moderately complicated for current courses, and more so for new courses (specifically new course numbering).
-- Jeff
Since Banner Student allows for some level of what I'm going to call "Versioning," we tend towards updating the currently active course. This aligns with us using CourseLeaf for Catalog and Course management, which leans towards only creating a new course when there is functionally something different between courses being offered. So our normal protocol is to use the Copy button for a course in SCACRSE through Banner, which essentially sets a version of the course starting at the specified term (and ending the previous iteration at that term). I would suppose that the cutoff is rather arbitrary, but I think a thing that keeps people from changing course numbers for minor changes at MSU is the approval process itself, which is moderately complicated for current courses, and more so for new courses (specifically new course numbering).
-- Jeff
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Subject: Course revisions
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Subject: Course revisions
Hi everyone,
I’m looking for insight in how other institutions handle minor course revisions. For example, when a course title or description is changed without any revisions to the content of the course, is it common practise to always generate a new course number or are changes made reusing the old course number?
We are working on clarifying our policy while being mindful of the limitations within our existing course numbering system.
Any thoughts are much appreciated.
Best,
Erik Willborg
Registrar
Rocky Mountain College
1511 Poly Drive
Billings, MT 59102
(406) 657-1032
erik.willborg@rocky.edu
Registrar
Rocky Mountain College
1511 Poly Drive
Billings, MT 59102
(406) 657-1032
erik.willborg@rocky.edu
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