[uwebd] Academic Catalog
Burch, Chris
VanderBush, Ed
Chris,
Welcome! You can find the archive by visiting: https://listserver.itd.umich.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=uwebd and logging in. A somewhat parallel forum exists at cuwebd.ning.com. I know both have numerous catalog threads as I’ve read most of them in the past month or two.
We are working to launch an online catalog which will hopefully be live in the next few weeks. I evaluated the popular off the shelf products (Acalog, SmartCatalog, Courseleaf) and found while they were all very good/capable products. I could not, however, justify the cost when I discovered we already had 75+% of the functionality in our in house curriculum management tool. Our development team had to build the policy management component into the existing system and create the catalog interface. In the end we’ll have a pretty comparable solution that integrates with existing infrastructure.
One huge “takeaway” I can offer from this project: define how the catalog is used and what absolutely needs to be included. Our print catalog contains a whole mess of things that are either already on the website or IMHO really don’t belong in the catalog to begin with. In talking with a few colleagues at other institutions, I’ve come to the conclusion that what is supposed to be included in the “catalog” and whether it even needs to exist is something of an old wives tale handed down from generations of higher ed folks. Now, getting people to let go of those ideas and rethink it…. I’m still working on that J.
Good luck and feel free to contact me off list if you have questions.
Ed
Ed Vander Bush
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Sinclair Community College | 444 West Third Street | Dayton, OH 45402
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From: Burch, Chris [mailto:clb...@smcm.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 12:19 PM
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Subject: [uwebd] Academic Catalog
Hi All,
I am new to this listserv, so I hope this topic is not redundant to any recent discussions I missed. If there is a searchable archive, please let me know.
We are a Cascade Server school and currently our academic catalogs are built manually and results in about 100 pages or so per catalog (with a large portion of completely redundant content). To me, this needs to be a database application. But with very limited staff, I am wondering if there are any off the shelf tools that any of you have ad success with.
Thanks so much and happy Friday,
Chris Burch
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Kreider,Eric W
We just are completing a system to build ours online and have 98% complete at http://www.uakron.edu/bulletin/. It’s a lot of work to convert the processes from print but we believe we will end up with a superior product. The team is also putting into place a system for review that includes workflow that will allow our departments to review, make corrections and submit them to a central clearing entity, all online and electronic.
For takeaways, I can’t say it better than Ed:
“… define how the catalog is used and what absolutely needs to be included. Our print catalog contains a whole mess of things that are either already on the website or IMHO really don’t belong in the catalog to begin with. In talking with a few colleagues at other institutions, I’ve come to the conclusion that what is supposed to be included in the “catalog” and whether it even needs to exist is something of an old wives tale handed down from generations of higher ed folks. Now, getting people to let go of those ideas and rethink it…. I’m still working on that J.”
-Eric
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Eric Kreider
Director, Web Services
The University of Akron
From: VanderBush, Ed [mailto:ed.van...@sinclair.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 12:41 PM
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Subject: [uwebd] RE: Academic Catalog
Chris,
Welcome! You can find the archive by visiting: https://listserver.itd.umich.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=uwebd and logging in. A somewhat parallel forum exists at cuwebd.ning.com. I know both have numerous catalog threads as I’ve read most of them in the past month or two.
We are working to launch an online catalog which will hopefully be live in the next few weeks. I evaluated the popular off the shelf products (Acalog, SmartCatalog, Courseleaf) and found while they were all very good/capable products. I could not, however, justify the cost when I discovered we already had 75+% of the functionality in our in house curriculum management tool. Our development team had to build the policy management component into the existing system and create the catalog interface. In the end we’ll have a pretty comparable solution that integrates with existing infrastructure.
One huge “takeaway” I can offer from this project: define how the catalog is used and what absolutely needs to be included. Our print catalog contains a whole mess of things that are either already on the website or IMHO really don’t belong in the catalog to begin with. In talking with a few colleagues at other institutions, I’ve come to the conclusion that what is supposed to be included in the “catalog” and whether it even needs to exist is something of an old wives tale handed down from generations of higher ed folks. Now, getting people to let go of those ideas and rethink it…. I’m still working on that J.
Good luck and feel free to contact me off list if you have questions.
Ed
Ed Vander Bush | Manager| Marketing Services
Sinclair Community College | 444 West Third Street | Dayton, OH 45402
937.512.2566 | ed.van...@sinclair.edu
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Shefali D Dhar
At the University of Georgia, we created an automated workflow system in house for course approval. This system allows faculty to input course information online. The course proposal is automatically routed to the next stage in the approval process. In addition, the system includes a browse function which allows all involved in the curriculum approval process to know the status of any course or course change in the approval process and to view all approved courses.
We also developed in house an Online Bulletin website that has everything about courses, majors, and academic information on campus at http://www.bulletin.uga.edu
Let me know if you have any questions.
Shefali
Shefali Dhar
IT Senior Manager
Office of VP for Instruction
215 New College
Athens, GA 30602
(706) 583-0745
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