Courseleaf FAQs

CAT—this is the catalog system that generates the “catalog.canisius.edu” site.  The editable catalog can be found at https://courseleaf-next.canisius.edu/. You must have a user account to access this page and need permissions to make edits to content/pages. If you do not have an account or permissions, please contact Academic Affairs at acaf@canisius.edu. Please note, this editable catalog is used when preparing the next academic catalog. Once the catalog is live, please work with Academic Affairs to ensure your edits are visible in the live catalog.

CIM for Programs—this application feeds into the curriculum tab content for each major, minor, or concentration. In the catalog, you will notice the table of program requirements found on a major’s curriculum tab is grayed out. This is because that information isn’t editable through CAT. It is only editable through CIM for Programs. You can either click the edit link within the gray box or go to CIM for programs and search for the program to being edits. This application is also where new programs are created.

CIM for Courses—this application syncs with banner and provides the course details to the Catalog as well as the scheduling system CLSS. If a course needs to be changed, go to CIM for Courses and enter the course code. Then, click “edit course” to begin making edits. Once submitted into workflow and approved, the information will sync with banner overnight as long as there aren’t glitches. If the new course details are not showing up as approved or reflected in the catalog, please check in with Academic Affairs.

CLSS—this application is used for building course schedules for each semester. The information for each course is populated through CIM. For example, if you want to offer an online section of a course, it must have the online delivery format checked off in CIM for courses in order for that to be a scheduling option.

Click here for a video tutorial.

To add a link, highlight the linkable text and select the link button in the page editor menu. A popup menu will then appear where you can paste the link. There are 3 types of links to add to your content

1. External links—things outside the catalog, like canisius.edu, require the full URL to be pasted in and the “open in new window” to be checked off
2. Internal links—these live within the catalog and need to be relative links, which means you do not paste in the full URL. The beginning of the catalog URL changes once the catalog goes live. Therefore, you should only include the part of the URL after “catalog.canisius.edu”.
   1. Correct relative link: “/undergraduate/ college-arts-sciences/biology/”
   2. Incorrect relative link: https://catalog.canisius.edu/undergraduate/college-arts-sciences/biology/
3. Email address—if you want your link to open up an email type “mailto:” followed by the email address. Click here to watch video.
   
   1. For example: mailto:smith@canisius.edu
   2. Note, there are no spaces!

Courses can be linked to a pop-up course bubble to provide a quick snapshot of the course name and details. This can be done by typing the course subject code and number, then highlight the course and click the “pancake” button. By doing so, this course will be linked to the course bubble which will populate with the  current course information from CIM for Courses. In addition, it allows the site admin to keep track of any mentioning of courses that have been inactivated. If the course becomes inactive, it will be highlighted in a red box. In addition, an error message will be shared with the site administration so the course can be removed or replaced in the catalog content.

Most majors have existing roadmaps created. To edit, go to the roadmap tab and click “Edit Roadmap” to begin. Within that popup menu, you’ll see the roadmap tables are in blue boxes. To edit, double click within that blue box and a popup menu will appear. From this window, courses can be added or removed, comments can be edited, or courses can be moved around. To add a course, you can either enter the code via the “Quick Add” field or search for the course from the drop down menu and click the “>>” button to move it over to the applicable Year and Term. To remove a course, highlight it and click the “<<” button. You can also move courses up and down, add comments, course sequence, an “or” class, or footnote. The hours will not be displayed in the roadmap. In addition, you can adjust the formatting for each line entry with an indent or creating area headers. Indents are commonly used when you want to show multiple options in a term. For example, you can add a comment entry “select one of the following” and then list 3 or more courses below it all indented.

To learn more about editing a roadmap, click here.

To create a new course:

1. Click on the green “Propose New Course” button.
   1. Note that when you are in the propose new course screen, you can choose “Propose New from Existing,” which is great if you are creating graduate and undergraduate versions of a course or if you are creating a special version of a special topics course.
2. Any of the red boxes must be filled out before you can submit, however, you can save your work and return at a later time.
3. You should check the course numbers that are currently being used to pick a number that is unique.
4. Complete the form. All red fields are required.
   
   1. Most fields are self-explanatory, however, if you need additional assistance refer to the CIM for Courses Cheat Sheet or watch this tutorial video.

You can search for classes by using any on the following:

• Typing in the subject and number (e.g., ACC 201). Note that you need a space between the subject code and the
• Type in the subject code (this will give you a list of all courses in the subject)
• Search for the course by title. You can use an asterisk (*) as a wild card. So, *sustain* will return any course with sustainable, sustainability, in the title.

Click on the class you want to edit and then click on the green “Edit Course” button below the search

• All existing information will be populated, and you can edit course information as described below in “Completing the CIM Course Inventory form.”
• Any of the red boxes must be filled out before you can submit, however, you can save your work and return at a later time.

If you are applying for core credit for a course, please check “Are you adding, removing, or changing the Core designation for this course?” This will open an executive summary of changes to core credit and will allow you to change (add or delete) designations in the core. Please indicate all changes requested (e.g., dropping field 3 credit, adding advanced writing, etc).

• Click on the appropriate designation for the course. Most will be “Other Core Course” –which opens the section to choose fields, knowledge attributes, and/or skills attributes.
• You only need to fill out the questions for a designation you are adding (in other words, if you already have Field 3 credit and are just adding justice, you don’t need to fill out the sections related to Field 3– but you should mention that in the “Executive Summary.”
• You must attach a course syllabus, even a sketchy one, or a detailed course plan, which shows the texts and other materials that you plan to use in the course, the structure and grading weight of assignments and other information that you believe is pertinent to this attribute.