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ASSIST: A Curriculum Tool You Can’t Live Without

ASSIST (Articulation System Stimulating Interinstitutional Student Transfer) is an awesome system supporting institutions' efforts to develop good curriculum. It provides answers to common curriculum development questions, helps in course articulation and transfer, and offers access to a comprehensive database of course information.

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ASSIST: A Curriculum Tool You Can’t Live Without

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  1. ASSIST: A Curriculum Tool You Can’t Live Without Joanne Benschop, MiraCosta College Dave DeGroot, Allan Hancock College Melynie Schiel, Copper Mountain College

  2. We love our acronyms! “Articulation System Stimulating Interinstitutional Student Transfer” Awesome System Supporting Institutions’ Stellar efforts To develop good curriculum… 

  3. Common Curriculum Development Questions • Will the course I am developing be accepted in the CSU or IGETC general education patterns? • Ref documents: http://icas-ca.org/standards-policies-and-procedures-manual • http://www.calstate.edu/eo/EO-1033.html • Then course search function • What courses do students in the major need for transfer? • Does my existing course articulate and, if so, where?

  4. Common Curriculum Development Questions (continued) • How does our current course inventory meet the GE area needs? • What courses are other local colleges using for general education areas? • What courses have been designated as transferable AKA “baccalaureate” by other curriculum committees?

  5. Assist has a front and back end.. • Front end: • Major requirements and major articulation • One-to-one report • List a college’s courses in inventory that meet specific criteria • CSU General Education areas • IGETC • Etc. • Listed courses deemed “transferable” by the curriculum committee (different than articulation)

  6. Assist has a front and back end.. • Back end: • Allows for key word searches of all courses in ASSIST inventory • Permit searches by various criteria • CSU or UC accepted • Outline on file • Number of units • LDTP qualified • Does not have • Recently updated limiter • C-ID information

  7. ASSIST ACCESS • Access to the front end is available to everyone. • www.assist.org • To get into the back end and search the database, you will need a username and password from your articulation officer. • It is different from the password he or she uses to update the database.

  8. Focusing on the database… • If forget how to get into the database, you can always go to the main page: www.assist.org and click on “ASSIST Information Center” • The direct link is http://info.assist.org.

  9. CAUTION Searching the ASSIST database for the first time can overwhelm you with powerful knowledge and extensive ideas. Be cautious and have a question in mind before using the database. Enter at your own risk.

  10. Updating An Introduction to Literature Course • What, if any, general education areas are met by a course like this? • What other courses do we have in our inventory to meet this general education requirement? • What content is covered by other colleges? • What books are they using?

  11. ASSIST

  12. “Database,” then “ASSIST Maintenance Reports”

  13. “Click here to go to the ASSIST Maintenance Reports”

  14. Enter Username and PasswordXXXX/ XXXX

  15. Click on “Course Search”

  16. Under “Institutions” select “All Community College Campuses”

  17. Enter name of course in “Search in course title” box

  18. Select “Courses with any IGETC qualification” in “IGETC Areas”

  19. Scroll down and click on “Continue”

  20. Find course with similar title and click on “curric”

  21. Clicking on “curric” will list transfer status and IGETC area

  22. If available, Click on “PDF” for course description and outline

  23. Another research question • An institution is thinking about burying their Death and Dying course. What impact will that have on transfer going forward?

  24. ASSIST

  25. ASSIST

  26. By looking at the CSU and UC articulation report I learn that • This course is articulated in two majors, a liberal studies major and a religious studies major. • Is the course part of a list of options? • Is the course required?

  27. Follow up question • The Death and Dying course is given new life after reviewing the articulation agreements and the student major data at our college. • We decide to revise the course and want to make sure the content will give the students as much mileage as possible in terms of transfer and articulation. • Are there some relatively current course outlines we can peek at?

  28. Program review • As part of program review, faculty should ensure that their courses are articulating. Where a course may fit in a general education pattern isn’t always easy to spot. • Business program faculty heard that some schools had a financial literacy course fulfill a certain area of the general education pattern. Is that true?

  29. Whoah… lots of info • I can now browse for how other schools articulate courses for GE areas… • Can this make a course more viable? • Hmm….

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