COCI 4.0 Release Notes

 

Schedule

Product Release Version: COCI 4.0

Description

Date & Time

Status

Description

Date & Time

Status

Pilot Release

  • Phase 1 Deployed to Pilot, Sprint 3: September 1, 2023

  • Phase 1 UAT Period, Sprints 3 & 4: September 5-21, 2023

  • Phase 2 (rc2) Deployed to Pilot, Sprint 6: October 19, 2023

  • Phased 2 UAT Period, Sprint 6: October 20-25, 2023

  • Redeployed (rc3) to Pilot, Sprint 6: November 1, 2023

COMPLETE

Production Release

  • 4.0 was deployed on November 21st, 2023 at 5:00 PM

    • Original deploy 11/8/23; decision made 11/9/23 at 12:15PM to rollback to previous version.

COMPLETE

All Changes At-A-Glance

Site Administration

COCI Service

Brief Description

COCI Service

Brief Description

Impersonate Log

Report for CCCCO Admin Users to view users impersonated as part of regular support interactions

Curriculum Submissions

COCI Service

Brief Description

COCI Service

Brief Description

Course Results Export

Catalog Description added to report export.

Create New Course Button

When users click on Create New Course users will be presented with the new tabbed course form.

Course Attributes

When creating a new course, users must input a response to the following fields:

  • College

  • Title (CB02)

  • Credit Status (CB04)

  • TOP Code (CB03)

Once responses have been inputted and the user clicks Save Changes the other sections/tabs of the course form are editable.

Course Summary

Users can access the Course Summary by clicking Next on the Attributes tab after successfully creating a draft course.

The following fields are required for all course submissions:

  • Department Name (CB01)

  • Department Number (CB02)

  • Catalog Description

  • COR (Course Outline of Record) Document Upload

  • COR Effective Start Date

  • District Governing Board Approval Date

The following fields are marked optional:

  • COR Effective End Date

  • Advisory Committee Recommendation (optional)

  • CTE Advisory Council Approval Recommendation (optional)

  • Articulation Agreement Supporting Documentation (optional)

PLEASE NOTE: course documents uploaded on the single page course form have been mapped to the attributes tab

 

Users can navigate to the Detail tab by clicking Next. Clicking Next will save all changes made on the current tab. If users are done editing a draft course at this point, clicking Save Changes will capture all inputs made since last save and the user can exit the course form.

It is not necessary to provide responses to every field when the course is in draft form. Users can click Next or Previous to navigate to other tabs on form without completing all required fields.

Course Detail

All fields on this page are required. Depending on the course type, select fields will be displayed as “read-only” with the field response populated. For example Noncredit Category (CB22) is shown with a “Y - Credit Course” response on the form by default for credit courses. Read only fields are displayed with the field title in grey.

Units & Hours

All possible units and hours fields are now displayed in the for. Field are not conditionally hidden or displayed. Minimum Hours of Work and Maximum Hours of Work are new to the form and become required or disabled based on the Course Cooperative Work Experience Education Status (CB10) response provided on the Detail tab. Responses provided in these fields now auto contributes to the auto calculation in the Units of Credit - Minimum (CB07) and Units of Credit - Maximum (CB06) fields.

PLEASE NOTE: Previously, when a response of “C” was provided in the field Course Cooperative Work Experience Education Status (CB10), conditionally displayed fields Hours of Paid Work and Hours of Unpaid Work were required. Responses provided in old fields have been mapped to Minimum Hours of Work and Maximum Hours of Work as a consolidated number.

 

Transfer & Articulation

This tab contains three optional sections:

  • C-ID Articulation Mapping

  • CSU General Education Mapping

  • IGETC Mapping

The default selection for these optional fields is set to off. Switching the toggle to on expands the fields. When adding a transfer mapping in either the CSU GE or IGETC sections, users are required to add the supporting documentation from ASSIST.

 

Contact

Comments have been moved to this page. Any comments previously made will be displayed here, and as well as in the course history.

Proposal Actions

All available actions are displayed on this page.

Clicking Edit for an existing course with a control number

Clicking edit will take users to the working copy by default. It is no longer possible to directly edit an “Active” course. Users will make all needed changes and then submit the course by clicking Finalize Changes on the Proposal Actions tab.

Generating new Approval Letters

Approval Letters are displayed on the Attributes tab. Users now have the option to generate an new (updated) approval letter for courses as needed.

Deactivating Active - Teachout Only Courses

Users can deactivate courses set to Active - Teachout Only on the Proposal Actions tab

Manage Transfer Curriculum

COCI Service

Brief Description

COCI Service

Brief Description

IGETC

CCCCO Admins can configure IGETC subject area mappings from this Admin-only tab

CSU GE

CCCCO Admins can configure CSU GE subject area mappings from this Admin-only tab

All Programs

COCI Service

Brief Description

COCI Service

Brief Description

CDCP Dropdown

Additional options added to the dropdown menu.

Programs Results Export

Catalog Description has been added to the report export.

Units and Hours for ADT and UCTP Degrees

The maximum number of hours has been expanded to support the increased units of these program types.

Configure Accounts

COCI Service

Brief Description

COCI Service

Brief Description

Impersonate User

CCCCO Admin users can impersonate other users as an added support tool. To impersonate a user, go to the main results table, identify the user and then click Impersonate in the Action column.