Student Curriculum

Getting Started

Take the first steps to become proficient with basic navigation with these learning resources: self-study and instructor-led courses, Wiki documentation, videos, and office hours. See Basic Navigation for details and links to enroll.

Dashboard Deep Dive

In this section, each of the Student Curriculum dashboards is shown with sample questions that can be answered using the various reports contained in the dashboard. There are links to the Wiki documentation where you can learn about the prompts and reports, how to interpret the data in the report, and special considerations. Where available, you’ll also find links to job aids and recorded webinars. Dashboards:

Course Grade Distribution

Curriculum Long Term Planning  

Departmental Teaching Workload

Students & Courses

Teaching Activity

Weekly Enrollment Management

Self-Study: Student Curriculum - Sample Questions and Answers - Examples of how to select filters to answer questions using dashboard reports in the Student Curriculum subject area.

Course Grade Distribution

The Course Grade Distribution dashboard reports contain data about average course grades and grade distributions so you can compare to the department and see trends over time.

Report Questions That Can Be Answered
Grade Trends
  • How many students received a letter grade in classes offered by a specific Department?
  • What was the average grade for the different colleges and schools, divisions, departments, course subjects or courses?
Grade Distribution
  • What percentage or count of students got a specific letter grade in a specific class?
  • Do some instructors give lower grades than others? (i.e., what was the average grade and grade distribution for any class on campus and who taught that class in a given semester)?
  • What does the grading curve look like for a specific course?
Course View
  • How many students were awarded A's in a specific section of a course?
  • What was the average grade in a specific section a particular class?

Curriculum Long Term Planning

The Curriculum Long Term Planning dashboard reports contain data about course offerings, enrollments, student credit hours, and average class size over time so you can see and respond to trends.

Report Questions That Can Be Answered
Curriculum Trends
  • What were the course enrollment levels in a specific Department?
  • Did lower-division and upper-division course enrollments grow at the same rate over the past five years?
Course View
  • How many classes were offered by a specific Department?
  • What was the average class size?
  • How many SCH were earned by students in a specific course?
  • What courses has my department offered in the first 6 weeks session over the past three summers, and which enrolled the most students?

Departmental Teaching Workload

The Departmental Teaching Workload dashboard reports contain data about teaching activity credited to an academic department at the university.

Report Questions That Can Be Answered
Teaching by Credited Department
  • How many Student Credit Hours did an academic unit receive credit for by type of instructor teaching?
Course Detail by Credited Department
  • What was the headcount (HC) of instructors actively teaching?
Roomshare & Crosslisted Course Detail
  • How much SCH did my department receive for a specific crosslisted and co taught course?

Students & Courses

The Students & Courses dashboard reports contain data about the majors of the students enrolled in a course as well as which courses majors are taking.

Wiki: Students & Courses

Report Questions That Can Be Answered
Majors in Courses
  • What percentage of enrollments (prorated for students with multiple-majors) in courses offered by my unit were by students from within the unit?
  • What percent of prorated enrollments were by students from outside of the unit?
Courses Taken by Majors
  • Where else on campus are declared students in my Department taking courses? Which specific courses are they taking?

Teaching Activity

The Teaching Activity dashboard reports contain data about teaching activity at the university. 

Job Aid: Teaching Activity

Wiki: Teaching Activity

Report Questions That Can Be Answered
Teaching Activity by Instructor Type
  • What type of instructor (e.g., regular faculty, lecturer, graduate student, etc.) taught courses offered by a given Department or Division?
  • What percent of enrollments in a given Department were taught, for example, by Associate Professors?
Instructor List by Course
  • Which lecturers have taught a specific course in the past 10 years?  Two years?
Course List by Instructor
  • What are all of the courses taught by a specific instructor over the past five years?

Weekly Enrollment Management

The Weekly Enrollment Management dashboard reports contain data about course offerings and enrollments for each week of the semester’s registration period so you can align capacity to demand for courses. They also allow you to compare this semester's enrollments with the enrollments last year in the same week and at the end of term.

Job Aid: Weekly Enrollment Management

Wiki: Weekly Enrollment Dashboard

Report Questions That Can Be Answered
Campus Summary
  • How many classes in a specific Department were full on the second week of instruction? Was that number higher or lower than the previous year’s?
Course Tracking
  • How many students were enrolled in all of the sections of a specific class on the first week of the enrollment period?
  • What percent of all seats were filled?
  • What was the average class size?
  • How does this compare to last year in the same week?
Class Tracking
  • What were the course enrollment and waitlist counts for every section of a specific course during the first week of instruction?
Course Demand
  • How does demand (enrollments + waitlist) compare to the enrollment limit for a course?
  • How does this compare to last year?