What is Course Manager?
Course Manager allows district administrators and local administrators to upload course libraries for students to use in the creation of education plans as part of their career-focused exercises in Navigator.
Where do I set up Course Manager?
Course Manager can be setup by navigating to the Configure Student Plans on left-hand menu and selecting Course Manager on Kuder Navigator - Admins. District Administrators and Local Administrators are the only roles with access to configure course manager.
Note: This feature is not available for districts that receive their courses from the state.
Steps to Set Up Course Manager:
On the left-hand navigation select Configure Student Plans
Select Course Manager
Select your District or School
To make sure your new library is formatted correctly, a template CSV is provided below for download. Note: Do not make any changes to the column headings provided in the template otherwise you may experience errors during the upload process.
Course Category
Course category is the most general designation of courses. Categories
then have subject areas assigned to them based on the course manager
file that is imported.Examples: Core, Electives, Career & Technical
50 Character Limit
Course Subject Area
The course subject area is the specific type of credit that the course will
give the student.Examples: English, Math, Science, Physical Education
50 Character Limit
Area of Study
Areas of study can be used in a multitude of ways to help students find desired courses. When creating an ed plan they can select an area of study based on a career cluster they are interested in, the high school specific courses they are attending, a general area that can be used to show all courses or any other designation that can be helpful.
Examples: Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources, Health Science, West High School, East High School, General Education, All Areas of Study
50 Character Limit
Course Number
The course number can be used by students to search for a course or to
make certain they are selecting the correct course. Each value must be
unique to each course, duplicates will cause an error on import. Please
add extra information to make course values unique.Examples: The same course offered for multiple semesters: BIO1001-
SPRING and BIO1001-FALL, The same course at multiple locations (add
location abbreviation): ALG200-WHS and ALG200-EHS50 Character Limit
Course Title
The course title can be used by students to search for a course or to
make certain they are selecting the correct course. This is also where a
course can be labeled to give more information about the course.Examples: AP Calculus, Introduction to Business β SPRING ONLY, History
of Motion Pictures β DC (Dual Credit)50 Character Limit
NOTE: Remove commas from course titles
Number of Credits
The number of credits can include positive integers and decimals
including zero.
Minimum Grade
The minimum grade is the grade at which the student can first select the
class to be taken on their ed plan.Example: A course set with a minimum of 10th will not be available to be
added to any year prior to the 10th grade section of the ed plan.Minimum Value: 6, Maximum Value: 12
Maximum Grade
The maximum grade is the grade at which the student can select the class
for the last time on their ed plan.Example: A course set with a maximum of 10th will not be available to be
added to any year after the 10th grade section of the ed plan.Minimum Value: 6, Maximum Value: 12
Once you have added your courses and saved the file to your computer as a CSV, you can upload the course library for your district or school.
Select Process File
The following information was extracted while processing the CSV file provided. Check
these items for accuracy before publishing the library for student use. Any corrections
should be made to the original CSV file and reprocessed.Click back to return and update CSV file accordingly or select Publish if the Courses have been reviewed and finalized.
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