C/PR (Course /Program Register)
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF TOOL
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The Curriculum Development Office in the District 
Educational Development Division has developed the 
Course/Program Register (C/PR) to provide additional onine 
access to course and program information. The C/PR system is 
an extension of the Course Inventory Audit (CIA) which 
contains information on MCCCD's available courses (course 
code, title, credit, division, etc.). The C/PR provides on-
line access to full course descriptions and requisites, 
course competencies, and course outlines not found in CIA 
Program Information includes program competencies and the 
required program courses associated with the competencies. 
This supports the Monitoring Academic Progress System 
(MAPS).

IMPORTANT FEATURES OF TOOL
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C/PR has powerful on-line query capability. Keyword or 
character string searches can be performed, thereby 
providing a new way to access course and program 
information. For example, all course titles that contain a 
particular word or phrase could be found.

WHO WOULD USE THIS TOOL?
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The Course/Program Register can be used by many different 
users for different reasons.  For example, course 
descriptions can be used for reference when colleges are 
planning updates to sources.  Checking titles can be helpful 
for finding topics or different courses.

Checking requisites can help users understand how different 
course changes can affect other courses  The Pending courses 
option allows users to keep track of changes in all courses 
District-wide.  Finally the competencies and outlines can 
help professors of new courses to know what the approved 
content of a course is and can help professors of new 
courses to know what the approved content of a course is and 
can help other users to see what has been approved when 
suggesting changes.

HOW DOES THE TOOL SUPPORT EFFECTIVE AND LEARNING?
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C/PR primarily supports the curriculum development efforts 
of the Maricopa colleges and centers. It can also be used as 
an advisement tool. Since data are updated on a monthly 
basis per MCCCD Governing Board action, administrators, 
staff, and students can have access to the most current data 
available on courses.

CONTACT PERSON
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Virginia Cantu, DIST/Educational Development  731-8105