UK Launching New Curriculum Management System
LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 26, 2016) — The University of Kentucky is transitioning from the current eCATS curriculum system to a new online curriculum management system, Curriculog. This transition will be effective for fall semester 2016.
Curriculog includes a transparent approval process which allows proposers and other interested users to track the progress of proposals as they move through the process. It also includes other features such as committee agendas, user-specific dashboards and various reports.
Steering committee and project teams who have been involved in the selection and development of this new curriculum management system include faculty and staff from the University Senate, Undergraduate Education, Graduate School and college administration. Curriculog was chosen following a Request for Proposal and structured evaluation and selection procedures to ensure the software solution was the best fit for UK.
Curriculog is a highly configurable system that will allow UK to maintain consistency among course proposals, systems of record and published bulletins. This solution was created based on existing curriculum forms and follows UK’s standard curriculum approval processes.
Course proposals that are generated for clinical courses or those that are currently pending review in university curriculum councils will continue to be processed in eCATS in the interim. Councils will accept eCATS proposals until Oct. 3, 2016. At that time all proposals not already submitted to the councils will need to be resubmitted in the new system, which is scheduled to be available Aug. 15.
This project supports UK’s strategic plan by improving the process by which new and innovative curricular offerings are provisioned. More information will be distributed as the official launch of Curriculog approaches.
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