Mar 08, 2011

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – March 7, 2011 – The Kuali Foundation is pleased to announce that the first release of Kuali Student Curriculum Management (version 1.1) is now available to the general public. Delivery of this software release represents an important milestone for the Kuali Student (KS) community, a community led by twelve partner colleges and universities. In addition to innovative curriculum management capabilities, this initial release represents the availability of the technical and conceptual foundation upon which the entire suite of the Kuali Student system will be built going forward.

Kuali Student Curriculum Management may be used by any institution of higher education looking for a solution to transform its current curriculum management processes. KS community members; University of California, Berkeley and University of Maryland, College Park, are currently implementing the software.

“This release of Kuali Student Curriculum Management to the general public is an important milestone, not only because it is the foundation for all future Kuali Student systems development, but because institutions can begin to adopt this solution now in preparation for future KS products. Because of the architecture of Kuali Student, a phased approach that allows each new module to integrate with existing modules of a student system suite is a viable strategy,” said Bill McLean, chair of the Kuali Student Project Board and Associate Vice President for Academic Services, University of Maryland College Park. “The University of Maryland College Park is taking this approach.”

KS Curriculum Management controls the creation and management of Learning Units (LUs)--any learning-related activity that needs to be tracked by the institution or the learner. Learning units may range from very general (a degree program) to very specific (a class assignment). KS Curriculum Management addresses the creation, approval, and management of traditional curriculum such as courses and degrees. This includes developing and approving new Learning Units and making simple or substantive changes to existing Learning Units.

Key features of this release include the following components:

  • Integrated management of courses, programs, and learning objectives
  • Integrated workflow
  • Rules management
  • Customizable fields
  • Analysis capabilities

For more information about Kuali Student Curriculum Management 1.1 go to: http://www.kuali.org/ks/releases

Now that KS Curriculum Management 1.1 is delivered, the Kuali Student project team is diligently working on development of the next product – KS Enrollment Management.

About Kuali Student

Kuali Student is a muliti year, next generation student system software project being developed through the Community Source process with the support of the Kuali Foundation. The project is run and organized by an international community of institutions that contribute resources to its ongoing development. For more information about Kuali Student please go to: http://www.kuali.org/ks

About the Kuali Foundation

Kuali is a growing community of universities, colleges, businesses, and other organizations that have partnered to build and sustain community source software for higher education, by higher education. The software of Kuali projects is freely available under the Educational Community License to anyone for any use or modification. More information on Kuali is found at: http://www.kuali.org