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Model Learning Program Offerings
Use Education Cloud objects to model your institution's learning offerings. Learning objects track the structure, administration, and enrollment and completion requirements for your offerings.
| Available in: Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions with Education Cloud |
| User Permissions Needed | |
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| To model learning offerings: | Education Cloud Full Access |
Learning programs can be degree or credential programs, academic support programs, recreational programs, continuing education, and so on. We use the same architectural building blocks to model each of them in Education Cloud.
- Learning
- Information that defines the curriculum that can be made available as a course, program, or on-site experience for a contact.
- Learning Achievement
- The outcome of a learning activity.
- Learning Course
- Detailed information about a specific course within a larger learning framework.
- Learning Foundation Item
- A prerequisite, co-requisite, or the recommended learning that's required for a learning outcome.
- Learning Outcome Item
- The mapping between a learning and its related outcome.
- Learning Pathway Template
- A template that a learner can apply to create a planned learning path.
- Learning Pathway Template Item
- A requirement with completion details in the learning pathway template.
- Learning Pathway Template Program Plan
- A junction between a specific learning program plan to a learning pathway template, showing how the program fits into the template.
- Learning Program
- Information about the curricula in a program that's required for a learner to obtain a credential.
- Learning Program Plan
- Details of a plan that's created to run a learning program.
- Learning Program Plan Requirement
- Information about the requirements of a learning outcome that's included in the learning program plan.
- Learner Pathway
- The learner's planned path to the completion of their enrolled learning programs.
- Learner Pathway Item
- A specific requirement within a learner's pathway, including completion details and status.
- Learner Program Requirement
- The requirement that a learner must complete in their assigned learning program plan.
- Learner Program Requirement Progress
- Information about the progress of a requirement that a learner must complete as a part of the assigned program plan.
A Sample Degree Program Offering
See an example of how Education Cloud objects represent a program offering.
The Biological Sciences Department at Astro University offers an undergraduate Biology degree. This degree program is represented with these objects.
- At Astro University, Biology is an example of learning.
- The B.S. Biology degree is a learning program at Astro University.
- Biology Catalog Year 2023–2024 is the learning program plan for B.S. Biology.
- The learning program plan includes all of the learning program plan requirements, including biology, math, and general elective courses.
To earn the B.S. Biology degree, students complete a sequence of study defined in the university's course catalog. These high-level requirements for the degree are organized using the learning program plan object. For the student cohort enrolling in the 2023–2024 academic year, a learning program plan record named Biology Catalog Year 2023–2024 represents the set of requirements in effect at that time. When Astro University finalizes its catalog for the next academic year, requirements likely changed slightly and are captured in another Program Plan record named Biology Catalog Year 2024–2025.
The learning program plan object represents a general set of requirements. The learning program plan requirement object represents the specific requirements, such as required courses, thesis work, or an internship.
To help organize your programs, we recommend that you create accounts for each department or college in your institution. Then, when you create records, assign them to the appropriate account.
Manage your program offerings with the Academic Operations app.
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