The Courses page has a Career Pathways tab to link a course to a Career Pathway. Career Pathways is a California feature, and the tab uses the Career Pathway Courses (CCP) security area.
Career Pathways course links are school-based: each record stores the School, Career Pathway, Year and Comment. You do not enter the course’s pathway level on this tab. Aeries sets it automatically from the course’s CALPADS State Course Code (California Specific Fields tab) as 1 – Introductory, 2 – Concentrator or 3 – Capstone, and updates it if the State Course Code changes later. The level appears as Course Level on the Career Pathways Management page.
Click Add New Record to link the course to a pathway. The course must have a CTE State Course Code (7000–8999) on the California Specific Fields tab. If it doesn’t, the tab shows In order to add this course to a pathway, a valid CTE state code must be associated to the course. instead of the grid.
The School field fills in automatically and can’t be changed when you are working at the school level; at the district level, select the School. Select a Career Pathway from the drop-down, then click the Save icon.
The Year field is optional and holds the course’s sequence number in the pathway (a single digit, for example 1–4). It appears as Sequence on the Career Pathways Management page. A Comment field is provided.
Multiple Courses can be linked to one Pathway. For semester courses, both semesters should be added. To change the Year or Comment, or to delete the link, click the Edit icon on the row. School and Career Pathway can’t be changed on an existing row; delete it and add a new one.
On the Courses page, on the Other tab, the following fields should be populated for CTE courses:
- Course Type – CRS.TY, is reported in CALPADS element 9.12, CRS-CTE Postsecondary Articulated Course Indicator
- Values 32 and 33 are reported as "Y"; all other values are reported as "N"
- 32 - Technical Prep (Higher Ed Institutions) - This code is to be used if the articulation is between the Community College and the District.
- 33 - Technical Prep and ROC/P (Higher Ed Institutions) - This code is to be used if the articulation is between the Community College and ROC/P Program.
- Values 32 and 33 are reported as "Y"; all other values are reported as "N"
On the Master Schedule page, within the Section, the following field should be populated for CTE courses with a Yes or No value.
- High Quality CTE Crs (MST.HQC), is reported in CALPADS element 9.36, High Quality CTE Course Indicator, for sections whose course has a State Course Code from 7000 to 8999. It is required for those courses.
After the record is saved, the course appears in the Courses section of the Career Pathways page for students who have this pathway, and in Courses In This Pathway on the Career Pathways Management page. Linking a course does not add the pathway to students; add it on the student’s Career Pathways page, or mark students on the Career Pathways Management page.