[Building Sakai] What exactly is Subject, Course and Section ?

Beth Kirschner bkirschn at umich.edu
Thu Oct 20 07:23:20 PDT 2011


It really depends on how your university defines courses, but typically the Subject would be "ICS", the Course would be "2100", and the Section would be perhaps "001" (since often there is more then one section of the same course).

- Beth

On Oct 20, 2011, at 10:18 AM, David Wafula wrote:

> Dear all,
> A dilemma has arisen when creating a course. What should really be going into Subject, Course and Section field? What exactly do these fields expect ? We have the following scenario:
> 
>  A lecturer wants to create a course, and by course  i mean an entity with code and description, that is meant to be taught for a full semester. 'ICS2100' could be the code, 'Introduction to Programming' could be the description. Lets say this needs to be created during Semester I, 2012.
> 
> What would be a typical entry for these fields ? 
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> -- 
> David Wafula
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