COURSE GUIDE OVERVIEW
USU's tool for developing, reviewing, and revising a course is the Course Guide, a document stored in a course folder that resides within a program curriculum folder.
Purposes of the Course Guide
The Course Guides have four essential purposes:
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Faculty content engagement with the Guide: academic curriculum development, review, revision, design, etc.
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Course builder engagement with the Guide: ease of building with almost everything needed for the course either in the Guide or linked to it;
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Faculty assessment engagement with the Guide: identification of assessment alignments and evidence for each course; and
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Accreditor engagement with the Guide: the collection of Course Guides either individually or as a whole demonstrates to any stakeholder how USU is engaged in its core academic function.
Note: This is NOT the Syllabus, which is a much shorter, student-focused document (see the syllabus section below). Students do not have access to the Course Guide.
Course and Program Folder System
The College Curriculum accounts maintain program and course folders. The program folders contain the course folders as well as any program-specific documents that support each course. Each course folder contains, at a minimum, the Course Guide and the student Syllabus. It may also include an archived folder and any course-specific materials that may be linked to the main Course Guide (quiz questions, presentation files, .pdfs, etc.). College leadership has named share access to their program and course folders and files, which allows them to edit freely. Non-core faculty may have editing access for a limited time (if approved for Subject Matter Expert (SME) development, for example) or may have a comment or view access according to how those links are set.