7. Courses

A course is the permanent catalog entry (“CS3001 Data Structures, 3 credits”). It isn’t tied to a semester — each term it is offered again (step 8).

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Catalog › Courses › Add Course — a short wizard:

1. Identification & organization — code (or a prefix to generate it), title, faculty and study program, category (Core, General Education, Elective, Practical) and status.
2. Credits & placement — lecture credits (theory) and lab credits (practice); the suggested semester in the curriculum; the minimum passing grade; the maximum number of online lecture and lab sessions; and the delivery:
   • Class — meets weekly in a room; timetabled, with sessions and attendance.
   • Supervised — thesis, internship, research or independent study: never timetabled and takes no room, time slot or exam slot. The class’s lecturer is the supervisor and grading happens in the gradebook.
3. Review — check and create.

Two options:

• Lab requires campus — the practical part can’t run online (studios, workshops, wet labs). It stays on campus even in emergency online mode.
• Big class — the course also has one combined lecture for all its students in an auditorium, on top of the normal classes.

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The head of program writes the syllabus of their courses (admins see it read-only):

• Assessment components per track (lecture and lab) — for example Assignments 30%, Mid exam 30%, Final exam 40%. Each track must total 100%. Each component is marked as coursework, mid exam or final exam; exams are then created from these components.
• Textbooks.
• Course policies — attendance, late submission, academic integrity, communication — taken from the campus defaults unless overridden.

A course can’t be graded properly until its syllabus is complete.

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On the course page, add courses a student must have passed or must have attempted first. A student can’t enroll into a package containing the course until its prerequisites are met.

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The Activity programs tab next to the course list holds learning-outside-the-classroom programs (internships, exchange…) that convert into courses. It’s optional — see Learning outside the classroom.

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