org.osid.course

Interface Summary
Interface	Description
Activity	An `Activity` represents a recurring activity of a course offering.
ActivityAdminSession	This session creates, updates, and deletes `Activities.`
ActivityCourseCatalogAssignmentSession	This session provides methods to re-assign `Activities` to `CourseCatalog` objects An `Activity` may appear in multiple `CourseCatalog` objects and removing the last reference to an `Activity` is the equivalent of deleting it.
ActivityCourseCatalogSession	This session provides methods to retrieve `Activity` to `CourseCatalog` mappings.
ActivityForm	This is the form for creating and updating `Activities.`
ActivityList	Like all `OsidLists,` `ActivityList` provides a means for accessing `Activity` elements sequentially either one at a time or many at a time.
ActivityLookupSession	This session provides methods for retrieving `Activity` objects.
ActivityNotificationSession	This session defines methods to receive notifications on adds/changes to `Activity` objects in this `CourseCatalog.`
ActivityQuery	This is the query for searching activities.
ActivityQueryInspector	The query inspectors provide a means of accessing the match terms of a query.
ActivityQuerySession	This session provides methods for searching among `Activity` objects.
ActivityReceiver	The activity receiver is the consumer supplied interface for receiving notifications pertaining to new, updated or deleted `Activity` objects.
ActivitySearch	The search interface for governing activity searches.
ActivitySearchOrder	An interface for specifying the ordering of search results.
ActivitySearchResults	This interface provides a means to capture results of a search.
ActivitySearchSession	This session provides methods for searching among `Activity` objects.
ActivitySmartCourseCatalogSession	This session manages queries and sequencing to create "smart" dynamic catalogs.
ActivityUnit	An `ActivityUnit` represents a canonical learning unit.
ActivityUnitAdminSession	This session creates, updates, and deletes `ActivityUnit.`
ActivityUnitCourseCatalogAssignmentSession	This session provides methods to re-assign `ActivityUnits` to `CourseCatalog` objects An `ActivityUnit` may appear in multiple `CourseCatalog` objects and removing the last reference to an `ActivityUnit` is the equivalent of deleting it.
ActivityUnitCourseCatalogSession	This session provides methods to retrieve `ActivityUnit` to `CourseCatalog` mappings.
ActivityUnitForm	This is the form for creating and updating `ActivityUnits.`
ActivityUnitList	Like all `OsidLists,` `ActivityUnitList` provides a means for accessing `ActivityUnit` elements sequentially either one at a time or many at a time.
ActivityUnitLookupSession	This session defines methods for retrieving activity units.
ActivityUnitNotificationSession	This session defines methods to receive notifications on adds/changes to `ActivityUnit` objects in this `CourseCatalog.`
ActivityUnitQuery	This is the query for searching activity units.
ActivityUnitQueryInspector	The query inspectors provide a means of accessing the match terms of a query.
ActivityUnitQuerySession	This session provides methods for searching among `ActivityUnit` objects.
ActivityUnitReceiver	The activity unit receiver is the consumer supplied interface for receiving notifications pertaining to new, updated or deleted `ActivityUnit` objects.
ActivityUnitSearch	The search interface for governing activity unit searches.
ActivityUnitSearchOrder	An interface for specifying the ordering of search results.
ActivityUnitSearchResults	This interface provides a means to capture results of a search.
ActivityUnitSearchSession	This session provides methods for searching among `ActivityUnit` objects.
ActivityUnitSmartCourseCatalogSession	This session manages queries and sequencing to create "smart" dynamic catalogs.
ActivityUnravellingSession	This session provides methods for retrieving and expanding activities.
Course	A `Course` represents a canonical course that manages the curriculum of learning units.
CourseAdminSession	This session creates, updates, and deletes `Courses.`
CourseCatalog	A `CourseCatalog` represents a collection of courses, course offerings and terms.
CourseCatalogAdminSession	This session creates, updates, and deletes `CourseCatalogs.`
CourseCatalogForm	This is the form for creating and updating course catalogs.
CourseCatalogHierarchyDesignSession	This session defines methods for managing a hierarchy of `CourseCatalog` objects.
CourseCatalogHierarchySession	This session defines methods for traversing a hierarchy of `CourseCatalog` objects.
CourseCatalogList	Like all `OsidLists,` `CourseCatalogList` provides a means for accessing `CourseCatalog` elements sequentially either one at a time or many at a time.
CourseCatalogLookupSession	This session provides methods for retrieving `CourseCatalog` objects.
CourseCatalogNode	This interface is a container for a partial hierarchy retrieval.
CourseCatalogNodeList	Like all `OsidLists,` `CourseCatalogNodeList` provides a means for accessing `CourseCatalogNode` elements sequentially either one at a time or many at a time.
CourseCatalogNotificationSession	This session defines methods to receive notifications on adds/changes to `CourseCatalog` objects.
CourseCatalogQuery	This is the query for searching course catalogs.
CourseCatalogQueryInspector	The query inspectors provide a means of accessing the match terms of a query.
CourseCatalogQuerySession	This session provides methods for searching among `CourseCatalog` objects.
CourseCatalogReceiver	The course catalog receiver is the consumer supplied interface for receiving notifications pertaining to new, updated or deleted CourseCatalog objects.
CourseCatalogSearch	The search interface for governing course catalog searches.
CourseCatalogSearchOrder	An interface for specifying the ordering of search results.
CourseCatalogSearchResults	This interface provides a means to capture results of a search.
CourseCatalogSearchSession	This session provides methods for searching among `CourseCatalog` objects.
CourseCourseCatalogAssignmentSession	This session provides methods to re-assign `Courses` to `CourseCatalog` objects A `Course` may appear in multiple `CourseCatalog` objects and removing the last reference to a `Course` is the equivalent of deleting it.
CourseCourseCatalogSession	This session provides methods to retrieve `Course` to `CourseCatalog` mappings.
CourseForm	This is the form for creating and updating `Courses.`
CourseList	Like all `OsidLists,` `CourseList` provides a means for accessing `Course` elements sequentially either one at a time or many at a time.
CourseLookupSession	This session defines methods for retrieving courses.
CourseManager	The course manager provides access to course management sessions and provides interoperability tests for various aspects of this service.
CourseNotificationSession	This session defines methods to receive notifications on adds/changes to `Course` objects in this `CourseCatalog.`
CourseOffering	A `CourseOffering` represents a learning unit offered duing a `Term.`
CourseOfferingAdminSession	This session creates, updates, and deletes `CourseOfferings.`
CourseOfferingCourseCatalogAssignmentSession	This session provides methods to re-assign `CourseOfferings` to `CourseCatalog` objects A `CourseOffering` may appear in multiple `CourseCatalog` objects and removing the last reference to a `CourseOffering` is the equivalent of deleting it.
CourseOfferingCourseCatalogSession	This session provides methods to retrieve `CourseOffering` to `CourseCatalog` mappings.
CourseOfferingForm	This is the form for creating and updating `CourseOfferings.`
CourseOfferingList	Like all `OsidLists,` `CourseOfferingList` provides a means for accessing `CourseOffering` elements sequentially either one at a time or many at a time.
CourseOfferingLookupSession	This session defines methods for retrieving course offerings.
CourseOfferingNotificationSession	This session defines methods to receive notifications on adds/changes to `CourseOffering` objects in this `CourseCatalog.`
CourseOfferingQuery	This is the query for searching course offerings.
CourseOfferingQueryInspector	The query inspectors provide a means of accessing the match terms of a query.
CourseOfferingQuerySession	This session provides methods for searching among `CourseOffering` objects.
CourseOfferingReceiver	The course offering receiver is the consumer supplied interface for receiving notifications pertaining to new, updated or deleted course offering objects.
CourseOfferingSearch	The search interface for governing course offering searches.
CourseOfferingSearchOrder	An interface for specifying the ordering of search results.
CourseOfferingSearchResults	This interface provides a means to capture results of a search.
CourseOfferingSearchSession	This session provides methods for searching among `CourseOffering` objects.
CourseOfferingSmartCourseCatalogSession	This session manages queries and sequencing to create "smart" dynamic catalogs.
CourseProfile	The course profile describes the interoperability among course management services.
CourseProxyManager	The course manager provides access to course management sessions and provides interoperability tests for various aspects of this service.
CourseQuery	This is the query for searching courses.
CourseQueryInspector	The query inspectors provide a means of accessing the match terms of a query.
CourseQuerySession	This session provides methods for searching among `Course` objects.
CourseReceiver	The course receiver is the consumer supplied interface for receiving notifications pertaining to new, updated or deleted `Course` objects.
CourseSearch	The search interface for governing course searches.
CourseSearchOrder	An interface for specifying the ordering of search results.
CourseSearchResults	This interface provides a means to capture results of a search.
CourseSearchSession	This session provides methods for searching among `Course` objects.
CourseSmartCourseCatalogSession	This session manages queries and sequencing to create "smart" dynamic catalogs.
Term	A `Term` represents a period of time in which a course is offered.
TermAdminSession	This session creates, updates, and deletes `Terms.`
TermCourseCatalogAssignmentSession	This session provides methods to re-assign `Terms` to `CourseCatalog` objects A `Term` may appear in multiple `CourseCatalog` objects and removing the last reference to a `Term` is the equivalent of deleting it.
TermCourseCatalogSession	This session provides methods to retrieve `Term` to `CourseCatalog` mappings.
TermForm	This is the form for creating and updating `Terms.`
TermHierarchyDesignSession	This session defines methods for managing a hierarchy of `Term` objects.
TermHierarchySession	This session defines methods for traversing a hierarchy of `Term` objects.
TermList	Like all `OsidLists,` `TermList` provides a means for accessing `Term` elements sequentially either one at a time or many at a time.
TermLookupSession	This session provides methods for retrieving `Term` objects.
TermNode	This interface is a container for a partial hierarchy retrieval.
TermNodeList	Like all `OsidLists,` `TermNodeList` provides a means for accessing `TermNode` elements sequentially either one at a time or many at a time.
TermNotificationSession	This session defines methods to receive notifications on adds/changes to `Term` objects in this `CourseCatalog.`
TermQuery	This is the query for searching terms.
TermQueryInspector	The query inspectors provide a means of accessing the match terms of a query.
TermQuerySession	This session provides methods for searching among `Term` objects.
TermReceiver	The term receiver is the consumer supplied interface for receiving notifications pertaining to new, updated or deleted `Term` objects.
TermSearch	The search interface for governing term searches.
TermSearchOrder	An interface for specifying the ordering of search results.
TermSearchResults	This interface provides a means to capture results of a search.
TermSearchSession	This session provides methods for searching among `Term` objects.
TermSmartCourseCatalogSession	This session manages queries and sequencing to create "smart" dynamic catalogs.

Package org.osid.course Description

The Open Service Interface Definitions for the org.osid.course service.

The Course OSID provides course management services for educational offerings or other learning units related to an event or curriculum. Courses may be used to model a class, conference tutorial session, or even a meetup group.

The Course OSID defines two sets of interfaces. Courses and ActivityUnits represent canonical curriculum. Canonical Courses and ActivityUnits includes the description of the curriculum, requirements, and learning objectives independent of any offering. CourseOfferings and Activities are offerings of a canonical unit in a Term.

Courses

The Course is a canonical learning unit describing the overall content of a course, related learning Objectives, and any credit or grading options available that serve to constrain related offerings. The content of a canonical Course can be managed through a set of ActivityUnits .

ActivityUnits

An ActivityUnit is a component of a canonical Course that describes in more detail a learning activity. An ActivityUnit relates to a set of learning Objectives. Learning Objectives managed at the ActivityUnit level can be rolled up to the canonical Course.

An ActivityUnit also describes target efforts split between contact and individual durations, and whether the an offering of an ActivityUnit is intended to repeat on a weekly basis. The ActivityUnit maintains the high level data to which offerings are scheduled.

Example

Course 6.111 Digital Systems Laboratory has a prerequisite of 6.002 and offered at 12 credits. It as three associated activity units. One activity unit is the lecture recurring weekly at 3 hours per week. The second activity unit is the lab recurring weekly at 7 hours per week. The third activity is preparation recurring weekly at 2 hours per week. MIT calculates the credits ("units" as they would call them) as the sum of the weekly effort hours; 12 credits (transformable to 4 semester hours in the Grading OSID). The total target effort for all three activity units is 168 hours. When an offering is scheduled during a Term, the actual effort can be compared to the target effort based in the weekly effort estimates.

CourseOfferings

A CourseOffering is a canonical Course offered during a Term. CourseOffering replicates some of the data managed in the Course in the case it is refined or tweaked. CourseOffering adds some logistical information such as requiring registration, instructors, and overall constraints on seating count. Like its canonical counterpart, a CourseOffering is made up of Activities .

Activities

An Activity is an offering of an ActivityUnit. The Activity allows for some information, such as seating constraints and instructors, to be managed at this level instead of the CourseOffering level. The Activity also allows for the effort numbers to be refined fromits canonical counterpart.

The Activity also manages scheduling information. Schedules, as managed by the Calendaring OSID, can be related to an Activity. When the Schedule is applied to a Term, a series of meeting times can be visible as either a series of implicit Activities in the Course OSID or as a RecurringEvent in the Calendaring OSID.

The interplay between the Calendaring OSID and the Course OSID for scheduling is apparent by the similarity between the Activity and the RecurringEvent. At a conceptual level, the Activity is an ActivityUnit offered on a recurring Schedule duing a Term while a RecuringEvent is an event offered on a recurring Schedule during a Term.

Like a RecurringEvent, an Activity may be "unravelled" as in expanded to a set of Activities where each Activity represents a single meeting time. This unravelling allows for a single meeting time to be identified and potentially modified to add or change information for one occurrence. An eample would be to implement a rotating instructor for each class in a series.

A "superseding" Activity be be applied to an Activity to replace individual occurrences. The Schedules for each the Activity and the superseding Activity are expanded into individual meeting times. If any individual times overlap with any individual times of the superseding Activity, the superseding Activity session replaces the original one.

Terms

A Term is a time period in which Courses can be offered. The Term includes a set of course related milestones included a date range in which classes occur. This class date range drives the expansion of the Schedules in the Activity.

The Term in the Course OSID is analogous to the Term in the Calendaring OSID but has extra course-related information. The Schedule expansion in the Course OSID is based on the class date range while the expandion of the Schedule in the Calendaring OSID is based on the date range of the Term itself.

Course Catalog Cataloging

Courses, ActivityUnits, CourseOfferings, Activities, and Terms can be organized into federateble OsidCatalogs. CourseCatalogs can be used to represent a set of CourseOfferings offered in a specific Term, year, or by subject area or sponsor.

Orchestration

The Course OSID is orchestrated with a Calendaring OSID to manage Schedules or to offer a calendar view of offerings. The Course OSID may also be orchestrated a Resource OSID to manage instructors and students, with an Ontology OSID to organize Courses by subject matter or with a Learning OSID to manage related learning Objectives. The Resourcing OSID may be used to manage the instructor pools and apply their expertise to course offerings. The Grading OSID serves to manage GradeSystems for the grading options available for an offering. The Commenting OSID may be used to gather feedback and ratings for course offerings. The Course OSID provides the slice that includes curriculum and offering management around a suite of other services.

Sub Packages

The Course OSID includes a Course Program OSID to manage Programs, a Course Registration OSID to register students in CourseOfferings, a Course Requisite OSID to manage course and program requirements, a Course Syllabus OSID to manage the content of an Activity, and a Course Chronicle OSID to provide an academic record, and a Course Batch OSID to manage Courses, ActivityUnits, Terms, CourseOfferings, and Activities in bulk.

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