Course ID and Course Title Naming Conventions

Course ID and Course Title – naming conventions

For Credit Courses

NOTE: The COURSE ID must not exceed 50 characters. Blackboard will truncate the name at 50 and not give you any errors until you try to synch.

Course ID Structure

YearTerm-CampusCode-CoursePrefix+Number-SLN

or YearTerm-CampusCode-CoursePrefix+Number-InstructorLastname

Examples:

Scenario: One course prefix, one schedule line number

Course ID: 2006Fall-D-ENG301-45900

Course Name: ENG 301: Writing for the Professions (2006 Fall)

Scenario: One course prefix, two schedule line numbers

Course ID: 2006Spring-W-MKT301-13289-28909

Course Name: MKT 301: Principles of Advertising (2006 Spring)

Scenario: Two course prefixes, two schedule line numbers

Course ID: 2006Spring-P-TWC401-TWC501-25994-36123

Course Name: TWC 401/501: Principles of Technical Communication (2006 Spring)

Scenario: One course prefix, multi schedule line numbers

Course ID: 2006Summer1-P-ETM522-Peterson

Course Name: ETM 522: Air Pollution and Toxic Chemicals (2006 Summer1)

Scenario: One course prefix,with multiple sections requested by same instructor, multiple shells with different sln

Course ID: 2005Fall-W-ENG301-45900

Course Name: ENG 301B: Writing for the Professions (2003 Fall)
(where "B" = the second instance of a course requested by the same instructor, and so on...)

Scenario: Multi prefixes, multi schedule line numbers

Course ID: 2005Fall-W-FAS494-GRN494-GRN598-SWU494-Waldron

Course Name: FAS 494 / GRN 494 / GRN 598 / SWU 494: Aging and the Family(2005 Fall)

Scenario: One course prefix: EEE 350, Multiple Line numbers: 36505 ,87718 ,88787 ,09654 , 45329 and multiple locations for campuses offered at Tempe, Polytechnic, West, Downtown

Course ID: 2003Fall-T-W-P-D-EEE350-Hoppensteadt

Course Name: EEE 350: Random Signal Analysis (2006 Fall)

or for a class offered thru both Tempe and West we do:

Course ID: 2006Fall-T-W-NUR999-12345-67890

Course Name: NUR 999: Nursing Course (2006 Fall)

Development Courses

Examples:

Scenario: Course prefix, year, term, campus, instructor’s name

Course ID: Dev-2006Spring-P-IEE530-Shunk

Course Name: IEE 530: Enterprise Modeling (Dev 2006 Spring)

Scenario: Course prefix, campus, and instructor’s name

Course ID: Dev-P-IEE530-Shunk

Course Name: IEE 530: Enterprise Modeling (Development)

Scenario: Course prefix, instructor’s name

Course ID: Dev-IEE530-Shunk

Course Name: IEE 530: Enterprise Modeling (Development)

Training Courses

Example:

Scenario: Work with the info you have

Course ID: TRN-MYASU-Hands-on-I

Course Name: Workshop: myASU Hands-on I

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. You can send mail to the list (DL.WG.MYASU.CourseAdmins) or contact one of us directly.