How do schools typically manage course versioning?
When a curriculum is revised after the school year has already started, do schools generally:
Create a new version of the course, such as MATH101.1 becoming MATH101.2, and update the course description to reflect the revised curriculum, while re-enrolling students in the new course.
Retain the same course and add the updated information to the description, possibly as a changelog.
Additionally, is it more effective to associate the curriculum with a course using a custom file-type field?
Hi @tiekubd I can’t say this has come up with the schools I support, so I suppose it would depend on the school and the frequency that this happens. Knowing that previous years will retain the course description, I’d likely just change it with perhaps a note about the date and reason that it changed, rather than creating a whole new course. Also, units and lesson plans tend to hold the majority of the curriculum, so old units could perhaps be renamed as such, to differentiate them. If course changes were a regular occurrence for the school, then perhaps a custom field to track the curriculum changes could be useful.