Electronic Campus

Electronic Campus Course Submission Guidelines

Regionally accredited colleges and universities in the SREB region are encouraged to submit courses for inclusion on the Electronic Campus (EC) and TheTeacherCenter (TC) web sites. A college or university may propose courses in accordance with the following criteria and review procedures defined by the state's higher education entity that coordinates participation in the Electronic Campus and TheTeacherCenter web sites

1. A college or university coordinator is appointed to serve as the central point-of-contact for all activities associated with managing the EC web sites at the college or university.
    
2. A college or university representative reviews the Principles of Good Practice and certifies that the proposed course complies with these principles and has the following characteristics:

The course is accessible throughout the SREB region.

At least 51 percent of the proposed course is available in an electronic format.

The course carries academic credit. At this time, non-credit courses, with the exception of a remedial/developmental course.

The college or university commits to providing prospective students full information on several key topics through the institutional transitional page.

3. The college or university institutional coordinator submits a signed Course Nomination and Certification form along with appropriate descriptive information (as determined by the state) to the EC state coordinator. Check with your State Coordinator to determine for state-specific required forms.
    
4. The EC state coordinator verifies that the proposed course meets the quality standards of the Principles of Good Practice. Each state determines and defines the procedure for such a review. Upon verification, the EC state coordinator notifies EC staff and the college or university coordinator that the course has been approved for inclusion in the EC web site.
    
5. Upon receiving notification of the course approval, the institutional coordinator accesses the web interface and proceeds to enter the course information onto the EC IDE Web Interface. Guidelines for entering this information can be accessed from the Guidelines section of the EC IDE web Interface, www.electroniccampus.info/ide. Course information may also be submitted via the EC Bulk Upload Process. Details for the Bulk Upload process can also be found on the Guidelines section.
    
6. The course information submitted is placed in a database file not available to the public and is reviewed by EC staff. EC staff verifies the course has been approved by the state coordinator, the accuracy of the entry and that it has no visible errors, abbreviations or misspellings. If the course meets EC requirements, the status is changed by EC staff to Enabled (Active). If edits are needed to the entry, EC staff will contact the institutional coordinator.
    
7. The college or university transitional page is reviewed by EC staff. The transitional page requirements are outlined on the Guidelines page. This transitional page must be complete before any course will be made available to the public.
    
8. After EC staff have verified the course entry information and transitional page meet EC requirements the course is activated and becomes publicly viewable and available to student searches on the EC (ElectronicCampus.org) and TC (TheTeacherCenter.org) web sites.