Course Outline Explorer Overview and FAQ
We would like to extend you a warm welcome to the OISE Course Outline Explorer! We are excited to introduce this innovative tool designed to empower faculty members like you to create, edit, and manage their digital course outlines seamlessly.
The Course Outline Explorer is a custom-built website hosted on OISE's Drupal 10 platform. It's a unique solution designed to meet the specific needs of our faculty members and digitize course outlines. Whether you're teaching a new course and creating a new course outline or refining existing outlines, the Course Outline Explorer is the key to digitization and a streamlined workflow.
One of the essential features of the Course Outline Explorer is the autonomy it offers you over your intellectual property. You retain full ownership of your course outlines and are free to delete or modify them at any time, ensuring that your creative work remains under your control.
To access the tool, head over to the OISE Course Outline Explorer and begin creating your digital course outlines.
Education Commons is here to support you every step of the way as you explore and utilize the Course Outline Explorer. If you have any questions, encounter any challenges, or have suggestions for improvement, our dedicated please reach out to Education Commons.
Once again, welcome to the Course Outline Explorer!
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- Please visit the OISE Course Outline Explorer - User Login website
- Login using your @utoronto.ca email address.
- Your temporary password is your last name (lowercase) plus the numerals ‘12#’
This is a web enabled improvement to the course outline template. Rather than manually introducing changes to policy information and other static text, these fields will be automatically updated whenever a new version of the outline is created.
Rather than sharing files, this system creates a web link to your outline you can share with students, which requires a log-in for them to access. Whenever you update the outline, the web content will update as well, rather than having to send out new documents.
This system will also allow students to get a better idea of courses before they enrol, thus increasing course availability by reducing ‘course shopping’.
No, though this system is designed to offer many advantages over editing and distributing files manually. The existing optional Microsoft Word version of the course outline template will also remain available.
Once you have completed your outline, the system will provide a web link to it. We encourage distributing the web link, but the system can also create printer-friendly PDFs.
Please create a ticket using the Education Commons Online Service Hub.
Course Outline Template (Word Document)
For those who prefer not to use the OISE Course Outline Explorer, a Microsoft Word document-based course outline template is available. Please use this template to create a new course outline or update an existing one. The date of the template's release will be included in the file name.