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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2025-06-27
Steps: Set Up Curriculum Management

Steps: Set Up Curriculum Management

You can set up curriculum management to efficiently maintain your course inventory and course offerings, including educational activities beyond the classroom.
  1. Access the
    Maintain Course Subjects
    task.
    Define the course subjects offered at your institution.
    You can:
    • Specify course subjects only for academic units that you designate as institutions.
    • Reuse the same course subject names across multiple institutions.
    Security:
    Manage: Course Subjects
    in the Student Records functional area.
  2. Create meeting day patterns and meeting patterns.
  3. Access the
    Maintain Course Assessment Types
    task.
    Create course assessment types to associate with scheduled assessments. Examples: Midterm, Final Exam.
    Security:
    Set Up: Curriculum Management
    in the Student Records functional area.
  4. Access the
    Maintain Campus Assignment Policy
    task.
    Specify the campus locations where instructors can teach courses for an academic unit and level. You can configure a different policy for subordinate academic units and programs of study.
    Workday also uses campus assignment policies to define the campus locations for:
    • Student recruiting events.
    • Student applications and admissions decisions.
    • Program of study offerings.
    By default, Workday allows all locations with a usage of
    Campus
    . See Create Locations.
    Security:
    Set Up: Campus Assignment
    in the Student Records functional area.
  5. Set up instructional locations so that you can schedule course instruction.
  6. Set up instructors to teach courses.
  7. Access the
    Create Course Material
    task.
    Create an inventory of course materials, to use on courses and course sections. Example: Textbooks. You can also use the Student Course Material web service to load course materials.
    Security:
    Manage: Course Material
    in the Student Records functional area.
  8. Configure profiles for
    Student Course
    and
    Course Section
    .
  9. (Optional) Set Up Course Tags.
    Create tags to associate with courses, course sections, and instructors.
  10. (Optional) Set up student competencies.
    • (Optional) Create or Edit Competencies. Create competencies to link to learning outcomes.
    • (Optional) Access the
      Assign Learning Outcomes to Competency
      task. Associate learning outcomes with student competencies.
  11. (Optional) Set up student activities, such as Study Abroad, Orientation, and Practical Learning.
You can now create courses and course sections in Workday.
You can use the:
  • Academic Unit Policy Viewer
    report to view the campus assignment policy for an academic unit or program of study.
  • View Student Course Material
    report to view course materials.