CIS Documentation
UTS course and subject data is stored in one authoritative source, currently made up of two systems, the Curriculum and Student System (CASS) and the Course Information System (CIS).
CIS stores descriptive data (e.g. why study this course, career options, subject descriptions); CASS stores high-level data (e.g. course name, codes, credit-point values, rules of completion, program templates, requisites).
The CIS Documentation website provides information on where data is held and therefore updated (i.e. in CASS or CIS), how to access CIS, instructions on updating data, production schedules, and the publications where data is used.
- Access: how to access the system, levels of available access, the User Declaration form, system requirements
- Fields: contains everything you need to know about CIS fields, including:
- Format: what sort of data is held in each field, examples, words counts, purpose, where to update
- Usage: what publications use each field
- Publications: specific publication details about what fields are used, example data, order and final display examples
- Procedures: how to find, update and save course and subject data, what to do when there's a version change, understanding and using workflow, how to 'unpublish' a course or subject, grouping courses for use on websites, adding draft/planned courses to print publications
- Schedules: production and updating schedules for various publications
- Resources: tips on html tagging, links to relevant websites and useful documents, a diagram of the interconnection between CASS, CIS and OCAP
- Contacts: who in your faculty can provide you with CIS access, who to contact to request amendments to combined degrees owned by another faculty
