Creating Curriculum Requirements

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
  • Create curriculum requirements
  • Create curriculum requirement groups

Curriculum Requirements

Curriculum Requirements allow users to choose their preferred courses from a list of available options in order to complete their curriculum. Curriculum Requirements are separate Learning Activities that must be created before they can be associated with existing curricula.

Curriculum Requirements Search and Add New screen highlighted.

Curriculum Requirements Types

When creating Curriculum Requirements, the Curriculum Requirement Type must be selected. The Curriculum Requirement Type  defines how the user can meet the conditions. Examples of conditions include completing a certain number of hours or items.

Curriculum Requirement Types dropdown highlighted.

There are three Curriculum Requirement Types:

1. # Hours of Specified Hour Type

This type requires users to complete a certain number of hours to fulfill the requirements.

Configuration steps:

  1. Specify the Hour Type learners must complete.

    Choose between Total hours, CPE hours, Credit hours or Contact hours from the dropdown.

  2. Enter the Required Hours or the number of hours that must be completed.

Example

Curriculum Requirements: Users must complete 5 CPE hours.

Curriculum completion requirement: The user can choose any courses in the curriculum to fulfill the requirement of 5 CPE hours.

2. # Items from Pool of Items

This type requires users to complete a number of items from a pool of items to fulfill the requirement.

Configuration steps:

  1. Enter the number of items that must be completed.
  2. Create a Pool of Items from which the user can choose.
  3. Confirm the added items in the pool.
  4. Select Add to create the requirement.

Enter required number of items, Item ID and Items added to the Item Pool are highlighted.

Example

Curriculum Requirement: Users must complete any two courses from a pool of 5.

Curriculum completion requirement: Although the curriculum might contain many courses, the user must choose any two courses from the pool of 5 to fulfill the requirement.

3. # Hours of Specified Hour Type from a Pool of Items

This requirement is a combination of the two previous requirement types.

Configuration steps:

  1. Specify the Hour Type you want the users to complete and enter the Required Hours.
  2. Create a Pool of Items from which the user can choose.
  3. Confirm the added items are shown in the pool.
  4. Select Add to create the requirement.

Create Item Pool Section highlighted.

Example

Curriculum Requirement: Users must complete 5 CPE hours from a pool of 10 courses.

Curriculum completion requirement: Although the curriculum might contain many courses, the user is only required to complete 5 CPE hours from the pool of courses.

Curriculum Requirements Association

Once the Curriculum Requirements has been created, it can be associated with a curriculum.

Configuration steps:

  1. Select Requirements from the dropdown menu.

    Search for and add the requirements.

  2. Verify the requirements have been added to the list.

Watch this video to learn how to create a requirement for # Items from a pool of items and associate it to an existing curriculum.

Video Summary

This video shows how an administrator can create and add curriculum requirements for learners. The example used is the addition of an asbestos safety curriculum requirement. The process of creating a requirement for learners to complete any five courses from a pool of 10, then adding it to the curriculum are explained. This gives learners the option to choose which courses to complete and highlights the flexibility and customization that administrators can have in designing their curriculum requirements.

Curriculum Requirements Grouping

Grouping of Curriculum Requirements applies only if there is more than one requirement assigned. The Group Curriculum Requirements button only becomes active when two or more requirements are in the content list.

AND Relationship

When multiple Curriculum Requirements are assigned simultaneously, they automatically adopt an AND relationship. This implies that all requirements must be met for the completion of the curriculum.

Example: In the figure below, the user must complete any 2 items AND complete 5 CPE hours to fulfill the Curriculum Requirements.Group Curriculum Requirements using AND relationship are shown.

OR Relationship

If the curriculum can be completed by fulfilling either one requirement or the other, you must arrange the requirements into groups and establish an OR relationship. This suggests that fulfilling only one (or more) of the grouped requirements is sufficient for completing the curriculum.

 Configuration steps for grouping and setting up the OR relationship :

  1. Select the checkboxes next to the Curriculum Requirements .
  2. Choose Group Curriculum Requirements.
  3. Enter a short description for the group in the popup window.
  4. Select Create Group.

Example: In the figure below, there are two requirements that are grouped. The user must complete any 2 items OR complete any 5 CPE hours to fulfill the Curriculum Requirements. 

Group Curriculum Requirements using OR relationship are shown.

Create a Curriculum Requirement

Business Example

In this exercise, you will require learners to select 5 asbestos courses from a pool of 10 courses to satisfy a curriculum requirement.

Steps

  1. Navigate to Learning ActivitiesCurriculum Requirements.

  2. Select Add New.

  3. Select # Items from Pool of Items from the Curriculum Requirement Type drop-down menu.

  4. Enter an ID and a description.

  5. Select a security domain ID and enter the creation date.

  6. Leave the Active checkbox checked.

  7. Enter any comments, as desired, and choose Next .

  8. In the Enter the Required number of items field, Enter 5.

  9. In the Create Item Pool Section, select add one or more from list.

  10. Use search criteria to find courses with the keyword asbestos in the title and choose Search.

  11. Select the checkbox under the Add column next to each of the 10 asbestos courses you want to add to the pool.

  12. Select Add to create the pool.

  13. Verify the selected items are listed in the Item Pool for the Curriculum Requirement section.

  14. Select Add.

Associate Curriculum Requirements to a Curriculum

Business Example

In this exercise, you will associate the Asbestos curriculum requirement to a new Asbestos curriculum.

Steps

  1. Navigate to Learning ActivitiesCurricula.

  2. Create a new Curriculum titled Asbestos Training.

  3. Select the Curriculum Contents tab.

  4. Select Manage Content.

  5. From the Add Contents dropdown, Select Requirements.

  6. Enter keyword asbestos to search for the previously created curriculum requirements.

  7. Select Search.

  8. Select the Add checkbox next to the asbestos curriculum requirement you want to add.

  9. Select Add.

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