How to Utilize Course Manager to Guide Ed Plans as an Administrator

Course Manager allows administrators to upload courses for students to use in education plans within Navigator.

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Written by Macy Flanders
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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:

  1. On the left-hand navigation select Configure Student Plans

  2. Select Course Manager

  3. Select your District or School

  4. 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.

    1. Course Category

      1. 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.

      2. Examples: Core, Electives, Career & Technical

      3. 50 Character Limit

    2. Course Subject Area

      1. The course subject area is the specific type of credit that the course will
        give the student.

      2. Examples: English, Math, Science, Physical Education

      3. 50 Character Limit

    3. Area of Study

      1. 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.

      2. Examples: Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources, Health Science, West High School, East High School, General Education, All Areas of Study

      3. 50 Character Limit

    4. Course Number

      1. 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.

      2. 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-EHS

      3. 50 Character Limit

    5. Course Title

      1. 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.

      2. Examples: AP Calculus, Introduction to Business – SPRING ONLY, History
        of Motion Pictures – DC (Dual Credit)

      3. 50 Character Limit

        1. NOTE: Remove commas from course titles

    6. Number of Credits

      1. The number of credits can include positive integers and decimals
        including zero.

    7. Minimum Grade

      1. The minimum grade is the grade at which the student can first select the
        class to be taken on their ed plan.

      2. 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.

      3. Minimum Value: 6, Maximum Value: 12

    8. Maximum Grade

      1. The maximum grade is the grade at which the student can select the class
        for the last time on their ed plan.

      2. 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.

      3. Minimum Value: 6, Maximum Value: 12

  5. 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.

  6. Select Process File

  7. 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.

  8. Click back to return and update CSV file accordingly or select Publish if the Courses have been reviewed and finalized.


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