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Key Expectations

What are the “Must Haves” in order for our customers to consider Course Management to be vastly improved in Next Gen?

  • One spot to manage Courses and everything related to it
  • Annual Course Catalogs for each school
    • Inactive courses need to be filtered out everywhere
    • Excluded courses should never appear at the school site level
    • Ability to enable new courses to only appear when scheduling for next year
  • Easy way to manage State Reporting fields for courses
  • Ability to immediately find potential misassignments between courses and teacher credentials



Changes & Differences from Existing Functionality  ↑

  • Enhanced Search using Aeries Data Table
    • Search on any displayed field
    • Save, extract, print any view created
  • Larger Course IDs (10-15 characters)
  • More flexibility in categorizing courses 
  • Use of  Annual Course Catalogs to control course access by school
  • Allow easier grouping of courses to gain more flexibility when scheduling (i.e. semester courses can be treated as year-long courses)
  • State Reporting fields bundled together, with better filtering between options
  • Ability to build crosswalk between local courses and courses from outside feeder schools



Wireframe Concepts  ↑

Course Management Page

Course Search Page

Course Detail Page


Plan Summary   ↑

Course Management has been completely reimagined in Aeries NextGen: 

  • One spot to access anything related to Course Management
  • Better search/filtering capabilities
  • Annual Course Catalogs by school 
  • Streamlined scheduling with composite courses
  • Linking Courses to appropriate Credentials for better state reporting
  • Crosswalks between courses for transfer students from outside feeder schools