Welcome to Coursetune! Let's get oriented to what Coursetune does and what you'll see as a Viewer. Coursetune is a centralized system for designing a curriculum to meet standards and outcomes. Coursetune data is presented in an intuitive visual display to illustrate what is being taught, when it is being taught, how it is being assessed, and why it is being taught. This article goes into more detail. Coursetune also has a robust set of reports for each level of the curriculum folder structure. Viewers can browse the structural levels and design layers, run reports, and use the different views. Read about the three view options here.
This guide contains:
Guided Viewer Role Examples
Example 1- View the Course Alignment Report
A dean of a college wants to review how a course’s learning objectives align with assessments and activities.
- Log in to Coursetune.
- Navigate to the course using the folders or use the universal search tool to locate the course by name or course ID. The search tool icon is the magnifying glass on the top right. Click on the result to jump to the location of the course.
- Check that you are on level 4 and are viewing a single course.
- Navigate to the Reports on the right panel.
- Select the Course Alignment Report and the options that fit your reporting needs.
- LO IDs are the numeric labels that identify the learning objective statements. LO Scales are the learning objective scales, like Bloom’s or Marazanos, that are used to document the progression of a course. Up to two LO Scales are available to use on each course.
- RTF, HTML, and PDF are various output formats for the report. If you want to email the report, use the PDF option. If you want to pull up a report instantly in a meeting, use the HTML format. If you want to get data from the report to add to another document, use the RTF format.
Example 2- View the Program Collection of Syllabi
An assessment coordinator needs to see all the course syllabi in a program.
- Log in to Coursetune.
- Navigate to the program using the folders or use the universal search tool to locate the program by name or program ID. The search tool icon is the magnifying glass on the top right. Click on the result to jump to the location of the program.
- Check that you are on the program level (Level 3). Your levels may be named differently.
- Navigate to the Reports in the right panel.
- Select the Program Collection of Syllabi report and the options that fit your reporting needs.
- Select the file type you will want each syllabus to be in: PDF, RTF, TXT, or HTML. When you download the file, it will be a Zip file that includes all the courses in that program
- You can also select a specific tag and download all the syllabi with that specific tag. For example, #online would download a Zip file of all course syllabi with that tag on the course.
Example 3- View Course Mappings to Program Outcomes
A faculty member wants to view how their course maps to program outcomes.
- Log in to Coursetune.
- Navigate to the course using the folders or use the universal search tool to locate the course by name or course ID. The search tool icon is the magnifying glass on the top right. Click on the result to jump to the location of the course.
- Check that you are on level 4 and are viewing a single course.
- Navigate to the Mappings in the right panel. Select the Outcome Set and Outcome by clicking on it. New to Mappings? Read about Mappings here.
- Outcomes and suboutcomes that are mapped will be a dark blue.
- Outcomes and suboutcomes that are not mapped are gray.
- The course will display the element that is connected to the outcome or suboutcome with either checkmarks or a letter from an Outcome Scale. Watch a video about Outcome Scales here.
- If Outcome Scales are in use, you will see a letter in the outer ring listed from a progressive scale or a labeling scale.
- If Outcome Scales are not in use, you will see a checkmark in the outer ring.
1. Course, Level 4 2. Mappings Icon 3. Mapping Sets
Example 4- View Activities and Assessments on a Course
- Log in to Coursetune
- Navigate to the course using the folders or use the universal search tool to locate the course by name or course ID. The search tool icon is the magnifying glass on the top right. Click on the result to jump to the location of the course.
- Select the Bundle Layer in the bottom left. Your icon may be named differently.
- Navigate to the Activities icon on the right and click it to open the display in the right panel.
- Select an option to view an activity type. Learning Activities will show in green rings around the circle graph, and Assessments will show in gold rings.
- View All Activities- displays all assessment and learning activities in the course
- View All Assessments- papers, exams, and quizzes
- View All Learning Activities- lectures, discussions, readings, research, and projects
1. Course, Level 4 2. Bundle Layer 3. Activities Icon
Viewing Coursetune for Team Clarity
One of the successful strategies our community recommends is to bringing Coursetune data and reports into regularly scheduled curriculum meetings. Imagine, for example, if each assessment committee meeting included time to evaluate the program design and assessment alignment in Coursetune. By incorporating Coursetune’s patented visualizations and reporting into your meetings, you can guarantee that everyone is looking at the same information. There are several important areas of confusion that can be cleared up by viewing Coursetune in meetings:
- By having all curriculum data in one place it’s easier to track progress toward a goal or initiative.
- By using Coursetune’s visualizations to unify and clarify what alignment looks like.
- By creating a shared vocabulary of learning design and socializing it with your team.
- By referring to Coursetune in meetings as the place for your outcome structure, your team will understand how it works with an LMS.
How many courses have been mapped to diversity standards? Where are students being taught ethics? When are students being assessed? If you have all the curriculum data in one place, answering these types of questions during a meeting is as simple as logging in and using the search tool or a report in Coursetune. Many schools are using outcome mapping to track progress towards institutional level goals, like including diversity, equity, and inclusion in their courses. The ability to clarify your goals and track progress toward institutional initiatives is critical to your success. Using Coursetune in meetings can bring that clarity and help focus everyone on the goal.
By sharing the visualizations, it’s easier to communicate what’s missing, where opportunities are, and what’s next by simply showing a picture. It also creates space for people to feel involved and demonstrates a culture of continuous improvement. It is cognitively difficult to imagine what connections exist when looking at spreadsheets and word documents. Here’s a video resource describing what alignment looks like.
“The team was engaged in the building process in a way that I hadn’t seen before. I really feel like it was because they were so involved with Coursetune.” --Debora M. Dole, Ph.D., CNM, FACNM, Associate Professor and department Vice-Chair. Read Georgetown's nursing program success story.
Teams often find that the work of curriculum design and mapping requires discussing the vocabulary they use. From wording quality learning objective statements to defining course goals, teams usually have a mix of experiences that need to be discussed to get everyone working similarly. By exposing a broader audience to Coursetune, the vocabulary of curriculum design and mapping gets socialized and adopted more widely.
“One of the unexpected outcomes in a great way is that it helped our community norm around some language of instruction. The fact that folks are even calling them COs and LOs around the water cooler and in the cafeteria is really great, we loved it.” --Cheryl Despathy, Assistant Director of Teaching and Learning, The Galloway School. Watch the teaching and learning team's presentation from Coursetune Camp 2021.
Viewing Coursetune in meetings will reinforce the differences between what Coursetune does and what an LMS does. Coursetune. Coursetune houses the structure of the objectives and outcomes of all the curriculum. The LMS is where personalized learning happens with a faculty member delivering instruction. By designing and aligning courses in Coursetune, a faculty member has more freedom to engage students and still ensure they meet the outcomes of the course.
"Coursetune allows faculty in online content development to engage in the process of pre-planning from the standpoint of making sure that the content communicates the intent that they wish that it would have in order for students to be able to meet the course level outcomes by the end of the course." --Barbara Williamson-Holley, Assistant Director of Instructional Technology and Distance Education, South Carolina State University. Watch Barbara and others discuss transformation with Coursetune.
As your team grows, Coursetune becomes a central tool for all student outcome discussions. Committee meetings, department reviews, and assessment evaluations are simplified with a single point of data to rally around. Pictures speak louder than words when everyone can see the gaps and opportunities in a course graph or program mapping. Get your team speaking the same language and focused on the same initiative by drawing on the rich data that Coursetune organizes.
“How can I get access?” will be a question you hear when people see the power of Coursetune. With our enterprise licensing, there are unlimited seats. As a best practice, when you add people to Coursetune, add them as a Viewer first. They will be able to see all the data, run reports, and visualize the mapping alignment. Admins and managers can easily change roles and permission to allow for commenting, editing, or managing as needed.
Chart of Data Locations
The chart below illustrates what is available for a Viewer role at each level.
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Level in Coursetune: (common naming examples) |
Questions to ask: |
Look at: |
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Level 1 (institution, organization, school) |
What are the names of the Level 2 folders? How are the divisions or departments organized? What are our Institution Level Outcomes and how do we define them? Where can I find Coursetune help? |
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Level 2 (division, department) |
Which Level 2 outcomes apply to this department or division? How many Level 3 folders are in each Level 2? How many courses are in each Level 3 folder? |
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Level 3 (program, grade level, discipline) |
How many Bundles are in each course? How many COs are in each course? How many LOs are included in each course? How many Activities are in each course? What tags are associated with each course? What Mappings are being done at Level 3? |
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Level 4 (course) |
Which courses are shared in other folders? Which courses have variations on them? How does this course map to an outcome set? How is this course meeting certain standards or benchmarks? What are the learning objectives that align with each bundle? How do the learning objectives align with course goals? What are the Bloom’s levels of each learning objective statement? What Mappings are being done at Level 4? How are the learning objectives addressed by the activities and assessments? What different types of activities are used in a course? How much time is allocated to a specific activity type (eg, reading, lectures)? |
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