Carmen: Course Shells Created Automatically [Instructor]
The Carmen course management system receives a feed from the Registrar's Office every quarter, on or around the third week of class. This feed is an electronic version of the Master Schedule of Classes, and it effectively allows us to build an empty course shell for everything that the Registrar recognizes as a scheduled course for the following quarter. If you are an instructor for a course, and the course is recognized by the University Registrar, then there will be a Carmen course shell created specifically for that course. Roster information will trickle into the Carmen system as students add and drop courses through the normal signup period.
This has two significant impacts on the way we manage course material:
- An instructor does not need to put in a request for a new (Registrar-recognized) course. The only course requests that are necessary are for non-standard uses, such as a student organization forum, or a practice course for a professor new to Carmen.
- At first, only the Instructor of Record will have instructor-access to a course shell. This information will match what is given to us by the Registrar. This means:
- If the Instructor of Record is left blank, the course will not have an instructor. Departments can benefit from assigning instructors to these courses well before the next quarter begins.
- Departments that wish to centralize control of their courses can request a Departmental Support account. This account will have instructor-level access to a whole range of courses, restricted either by college, department, or course number. These departmental support accounts would then have the oversight needed to enroll instructors to their assigned courses on the fly. These requests must be approved by TELR and the Dean or Chair of the department in question.
Current Record: 2662
Create Date: 08-17-2005
Last Reviewed: 05-30-2006
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