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Course Outline Manager is Emily Carr University’s online system for managing course outlines.
- Faculty use this platform to enter course information into a standardized template.
- Once completed, the outline is saved as a PDF, archived by Academic Affairs, and published on the university website under the corresponding course section.
- Course outlines on the website are accessible only to staff, faculty, and students who are logged in.
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Step 1:
Ensure that your computer is joined to ECUAD Wi-Fi, campus Ethernet or ECU VPN.
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Step 2:
Open your browser to https://apps.ecuad.ca/ecu-syllabimanager/
- Only Firefox and Chrome browsers are supported
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Step 3:
Sign in using your ECU username (without @ecuad.ca) + password.
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If you do not have ECU VPN and legitimately need to access this service remotely, IT Services can approve a temporary exception that allows you to sign in from your home network.
Step 1: Ensure that any 3rd party VPN services are disabled on your computer and that you are connected to your normal home network.
Step 2: Go to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ to discover your home network IP4 address.
Step 3: Send a ticket to IT Services
- Explain your reason for remote access.
- Provide us with the IP4 address discovered in the previous step.
- Allow us 1-2 days to register your network with Course Outline Manager (i.e., we will message you when it is ready)
Step 3: Try to sign in again at https://apps.ecuad.ca/ecu-syllabimanager/ and please ensure that:
- any 3rd party VPN services are disabled on your computer.
- you enter your ECU username but without the '@ecuad.ca'.
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Once logged in, you will be at the Instructor Details page that will show a list of all your courses by term.
- Beside each course it will show the status for the course outline: outstanding, overdue and completed.
- When you click on a course mnemonic or name it will bring you to the course outline template.
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If you are co-teaching a course, the instructor you are co-teaching with will be listed on your template and vice versa.
- Both instructors are required to fill in their own outline.
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The template has both locked and editable sections.
- The locked sections include course info from our Colleague database and info set by Academic Affairs.
- The sections marked with a blue edit box without the lock are the sections that you can fill in.
- Click on the edit box to access specific sections of the outline.
- Here you will be able to fill in set boxes for your contact info, add your own course content, add learning outcomes, etc.
CAUTION - Your changes will not be saved until you click the PREVIEW button in each section that you’ve worked on.
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Under this section you will see a table that is editable.
- Feel free to change the words and add or delete rows or columns using the tools above just like in Microsoft Word.
- You can even delete the table and paste your own table in via the Paste from Word tool found in the tool bar.
- To add or delete a row to a table – highlight the row above or below where you want the new row to be and then use the tool Insert row before or Insert row after.
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Here you can copy a table from word and paste it into this section using the Paste from Word tool found in the tool bar.
- It will squish the table into smaller boxes after you preview it, but just go into edit again, hover the cursor around the top right corner of the table, then click and drag the table to the right to stretch it out.
- Don’t forget to click preview again!
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Once you have filled in the outline you have the option to SAVE AS DRAFT or SAVE AND PUBLISH.
- Save as a draft – this will allow you to save the work you have done and for it not to upload to the website so you can come back later to continue editing.
- It will also make a PDF for you if you want to save the outline to your computer or print it off.
- If you want to continue editing the outline, click on the course not the PDF.
- When you save the template again it will make a new PDF to replace the last one.
- Save and publish – only click on this button if you are finished editing and ready to publish the outline to the website.
- Once this is done students, staff and faculty will have access to the outline via the website under the course section.
- This will also create a PDF that you can save to your computer or print out for your students for the first day of class.
- The system will upload a version of the course outline that does not include the schedule but will archive a version that does include it.
- Please note! Published outlines will be locked from further editing after 2 weeks into the start of the course section.
- You will not be able to edit the outline after this time.
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if you are teaching multiple sections of the same course all those sections will appear as separate course outlines to fill in.
- You can copy and paste the info from one outline to another but you cannot have all the sections on one outline template.
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This contains most of the information outlined above plus a legend of all the editing symbols.
Course Outline Manager is managed and maintained by the Administrative Assistants in Academic Affairs.
- It is important to edit and publish your course outlines at least 2 weeks before classes begin so that students are able to view them prior to registration.
- Academic Affairs will be able to see the status of your course outlines and will contact you if you have outstanding outlines past the deadline.
- All course outlines need to be finished and published by the second week of classes.
- If you have any questions, please contact the Administrative Assistant for your faculty in Academic Affairs, Room D2320
Create a ticket to get help with troubleshooting authentication, VPN connectivity issues or remote access.
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