Table of Contents
Overview
Cross-Listing in the Course Template
Cross-Listed Field Propagation
Cross Listing Proposal Tab
Impacted Courses and Programs
Integration Layer
Course Inventory Display
Related Articles
Overview
Cross-listing a course means that a single course is offered for registration under two or more departments.
These courses might be equivalent for degree audit or financial aid purposes or have equivalent data such as credit counts, but differ in subject code and department.
Users need to be able to indicate that courses have a cross-listed relationship with other courses.
For information on how to propose and manage proposals for cross-listed courses, check out our Managing Cross Listings article.
The pre-built cross-listed courses field – and thus the functionality described in this article – is specific to PeopleSoft schools. In other words, we only support bidirectional integration of this field with PeopleSoft.
Cross-Listing in the Course Template
Learn more about setting up the Course Template.
There is a cross-listed field setting for each field that can be defined only in the Course Template. This field allows users to indicate for each field in the form whether a field is cross listed by clicking the checkbox in field settings.
Checking the “Cross-Listed Field” box has several impacts:
The field value will be the same for all courses in the cross-listed courses group.
This is handled through field propagation (explained later in overview).
If there are differences in the field between proposals <> proposals or proposals <> courses, this will be flagged in the differences report (explained later in overview).
SISs often require that certain fields remain consistent.
For instance, in PeopleSoft there are course catalog fields that must be the same for all courses in the cross-listed courses group.
Our in-app propagation of field values for cross-listed fields ensures there are no merge issues. See the "cross-listed field propagation" section to learn more.
Effective start date and effective start term fields are always cross-listed.
Cross-Listed Field Propagation
Overview
Learn how to Manage Curriculum Proposals.
Fields that are marked as "cross-listed fields" in the template are kept the same in Coursedog through field propagation.
This means that as proposals are approved, values of cross-listed fields propagate to all courses in the cross-listed group.
This is to ensure there are no differences between cross-listed fields.
Field values do not propagate to proposals.
Any changes resulting from propagation are reflected in the activity log of impacted courses in the group.
Courses added to the cross-listed group are also reflected in the activity log.
Example (Revision + Field Propagation)
Course "Example (Revision + Field Propagation)" has two cross-listed fields in addition to the effective start fields: "Test 2" and "Test 1".
We create a new course with different values
Fall 2021 as startTerm instead of Fall 2020.
Jul 10 2021 instead of Jul 1 2021.
New Option 2 instead of New Option 1.
This results in a new revision of course "Example (Revision + Field Propagation)" being created that has new values for "Test 1" and "Test 2". The cross-listed courses field is also updated to show the cross listing.
In Bio Course 2, the cross-listed fields are updated to reflect the values in the latest approved proposal.
Cross Listing Proposal Tab
Each proposal includes a cross-listing tab.
Within this tab, users can see which courses and proposals a proposal is in a cross-listed group with.
These course and proposal references are hyperlinked.
If the entity is a proposal, then "(Pending)" is displayed.
Beneath the group, the differences report is shown. This report shows all cross-listed fields in the proposal, and display if cross-listed fields are consistent or are different in the cross-listed group.
Impacted Courses and Programs
Learn more about Dynamic Steps.
In the impacted departments dynamic step, users can configure it so that if the proposal impacts a cross-listed courses group, the departments associated with the impacted courses in the group are included in the workflow step. To include cross-listed impacts, select ”cross listed courses” in the impact type multiselect.
Integration Layer
Learn more about our PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Integration.
The course offer number will automatically increment in the integration layer as cross-listed courses are approved in a cross-listed course group. This will occur if the number is not specified in the editor in the Coursedog application, and will populate successfully after the merge.
Course Inventory Display
Inventory Reporting
There is a ”Cross Listed Courses” column that users can select in reporting.
This column displays the courses and proposals in a cross-listed group for a given course.
Versions
The cross-listed courses field is hidden if you're viewing a historical version. Versions differ from revisions.
In the example, we are looking at the latest version vs version 1. Notice the cross-listed courses field displays only in the latest version.
