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How to use uwosh.bulletin
uwosh.bulletin is a product that allows university bulletins to be migrated to an online form. The following is an overview of the product and how to do common tasks.
uwosh.bulletin allows you to add a number of content types, each representative of a portion of a university bulletin.
The content types are as follows:
Bulletin
Description: A folderish type representative of an entire graduate bulletin.
Contains: InfoPages and Colleges.
Example: Graduate Bulletin 2010-2012; Undergraduate Bulletin 2008-2010
| Field | Description | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| Title | the title of the bulletin | |
| Description | the description of the bulletin | |
| Bulletin Start Date | the date on which this bulletin should become active | |
| Bulleting Completion Date | the date on which this bulletin is no longer active | |
| Faculty Listing | the faculty listing associated with this bulletin | |
College
Description: A folderish type representative of a section of a bulletin. Named college as our bulletins are broken up into sections by college but can be used for any logical separation of content in a bulletin.
Contains: InfoPages and Programs.
Example: College of Business; College of Letters and Science
| Field | Description | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| Title | the title of the college | |
| Description | the description of the college |
Program
Description: A folderish type representative of a program within a college. Contains information about the program and contains InfoPages and Courses.
Contains: InfoPages and Courses.
Example: Chemistry, Information Systems
| Field | Description | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| Program Title | the title of the program | |
| Program Description | the description of the program | |
| Faculty | the faculty members associated with the program | |
| Full Name | the full name of the person to contact for more info about the program | In the Contact Info Schema |
| Title | the title of the person to contact for more info about the program | In the Contact Info Schema |
| Office | the office of the person to contact for more info about the program | In the Contact Info Schema |
| Telephone | the telephone # of the person to contact for more info about the program | In the Contact Info Schema |
| Website | the website for the program | In the Contact Info Schema |
| the e-mail address for the program | In the Contact Info Schema | |
| Purpose | information about the purpose of the program | In the Program Info Schema |
| Degree | the degree that will be attained upon completion of the program | In the Program Info Schema |
| Additional Admissions Requirements/Information | the admissions requirements and additional info about the program | In the Program Info Schema |
| Degree Requirements | degree requirements for the program | In the Program Info Schema |
| Structure | the structure of the program | In the Summary Schema |
| Academic Plans of Study | the academic plans of study for the program | In the Summary Schema |
| Minimum Unit(Cr.) Requirements | the minimum credit requirements for the program | In the Summary Schema |
| Admission to Candidacy | admission to candidacy information for the program | In the Summary Schema |
| Graduation Requirements | graduation requirements for the program | In the Summary Schema |
| Additional Summary Fields | any additional summary fields relevant to the program | In the Summary Schema |
Click on the dropdown shown below to select the different Program schemas to edit
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Faculty
Description: Representative of a faculty member for use by the bulletin. Stores information on faculty members name, degrees, and an optional image. Should be created in the folder with the id 'faculty-profiles'. This folder serves as an aggregate list of all faculty.
| Field | Description | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| Full Name | the full name of the faculty member | |
| Degrees | a description of the faculty member's education | |
| Image | an image to be associated with this faculty member |
Faculty Listing
Description: A grouping of faculty members associated with a particular bulletin. Are selected from the aggregate list of all faculty(the faculty-profiles folder).
| Field | Description | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| Title | a name to associate with this faculty listing | Example: Faculty Listing 2010-2012 |
| Faculty | a pick list of the faculty members to be associated with this faculty listing |
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How to Select Faculty Members for a Faculty Listing
You select faculty members to associate with your faculty listing using the Live Search Widget. Select faculty members you would like to include in this faculty listing in the top or leftmost box and use the right arrows to add the faculty members to this faculty listing. Remove members by selecting from the right box and clicking the left arrows. You may search for faculty members using the text box above the In and Out widget.
InfoPage
Description: An html page for representing informative bulletin, college, or program pages or miscellaneous data that is not covered by any of the other data types.
| Field | Description | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| Info Page Title | the title of the info page | |
| Description | the description of the info page | |
| Info Page Body Text | the content of the info page in html |
Course
Description: Represents a course offering.
| Field | Description | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| Course Name | the name of the course | |
| Course ID | the id of the course | |
| Credits | the number of credits of the course | |
| Course Description | a description of the course |
A Bulletin Creation Example
- Create all faculty members that will be in the bulletin if they haven't already been created
- Create a faculty listing to attach to the end of your bulletin. For an example of what this looks like in the actual bulletin turn to page 162 of the hard copy of the Graduate Studies Bulletin 2008-2010.
- Create a bulletin and give it a meaningful name like "Graduate Studies Bulletin 2010-2012".
- Create any info pages that need to be a part of the bulletin. For an example of what this looks like in the actual bulletin turn to page 16 of the hard copy of the Graduate Studies Bulletin 2008-2010. The page titled, "Fees and Payment Information" would be an info page in the online bulletin
- Create the colleges/departments relevant to your bulletin. For an example of what this looks like in the actual bulletin turn to page 37 of the hard copy of the Graduate Studies Bulletin 2008-2010. "College of Business" on this page is the college in this case. This serves as a folder that will holder information pertaining to this college. Note: You can add info pages in this context just as you can in the beginning of the bulletin.
- Create the programs relevant to the college/department. On page 37 of the hard copy of the Graduate Studies Bulletin 2008-2010 "Information Systems" would be a program in the online bulletin. Note: You can add info pages in this context just as you can in the beginning of the bulletin.
- Create the courses relevant to the program. On page 49 of the hard copy of the Graduate Studies Bulletin 2008-2010 "Economics 521 - Labor Economics" would be a course in the Economics program.
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