4.2 How to Create a Course Journal

Click on Assessment of the section you want to create a course journal for, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Assessment

On the Course Journal page, shown in Figure 2, you will see five sections: ABET Syllabus, Course Syllabus, Handouts, Assignments and Exams, and Student Samples, which are the course materials that should be included in a course journal.

Figure 2. Course Journal

ABET Course Syllabus (used to be called Course Description), according to ABET Template for Computing Self Study, should use the following format (2 pages maximum in Times New Roman 12 point font):

1. Course number and name
2. Credits and contact hours
3. Instructor’s or course coordinator’s name
4. Text book, title, author, and year
   • other supplemental materials
5. Specific course information
   • brief description of the content of the course (Catalog Description)
   • prerequisites or co-requisites
   • indicate whether a required, elective, or selected elective (as per Table 5-1) course in the program
6. Specific goals for the course
   • specific outcomes of instruction, ex. The student will be able to explain the significance of current research about a particular topic.
   • explicitly indicate which of the student outcomes listed in Criterion 3 or any other outcomes are addressed by the course.
7. Brief list of topics to be covered

It is the responsibility of the course coordinator to upload and maintain the ABET Course Syllabus for a course. If you are not the coordinator of the course, you do not need to worry about this section. For course coordinators, we will provide a template for ABET course syllabi shortly.

Note that an ABET Course Syllabus contains the general information about a course, but does not include information specific to a class (i.e. section) such as office hours, grading policies, and so on. We refer to the syllabus for a specific class as the Course Syllabus (i.e. the syllabus given to the students at the beginning of a class). Please upload this syllabus under the Course Syllabus section.