This tab should contain a short paragraph describing the program. This paragraph is intended for an audience of prospective students, current students, and others interested in learning more about the program. It is good practice for Graduate programs to include the following headings with corresponding information: Admission, Financial Aid, Faculty Interests/Research, Facilities and Resources, Graduate Teaching Experience.

This tab should contain a program of study table and any additional information related to requirements for the completion of the program. The content within the program of study table can only be edited by submitting a program revision proposal in the CIM-P system. Any text or content outside of the program of study table can be freely edited by the program department’s authorized users as needed.

This tab is required for programs that include an undergraduate major, such as concentrations and joint programs. However, some graduate programs may want to include this tab for transparency for students. The sample sequence table is an example plan of study to help guide students on how they can complete the program. Instructions and other Sample Sequence resources can be found on the Provost’s website.

Any program that awards a degree is required to have program-level student learning outcomes. This tab should contain the approved list of Learning Outcomes from the program’s CIM-P proposal. Each outcome should identify what students are expected to know and/or be able to do upon completing this program. The Learning Outcomes should be listed in a numbered or bulleted list.

This tab should contain the contact information for the program, department, and college. Contact Information should be updated and reviewed on a yearly basis or as needed. An example of information that can be included and how this should be formatted is listed below.

Department Name (Heading 2)
Department website (Normal style; you may also link to the Heading 2)
Department Chair: Name (Normal style)
Address (Normal style)
Phone (Normal style)
Email@illinois.edu (Normal style)

College/School Name (Heading 2)
College website (Normal style; you may also link to the Heading 2)
Address (Normal style)
Phone (Normal style)
Email@illinois.edu (Normal style)

Advising (Heading 2)
Advising website (Normal style; you may also link to the Heading 2)
Phone (Normal style)
Advising@illinois.edu (Normal style)

Admissions (Heading 2)
College Admissions (Normal style; you may also link to the Heading 2)
Phone (Normal style)
Email@illinois.edu (Normal style)

1. Access the NEXT site for the Academic Catalog.
2. Navigate to the Academic Catalog page that you want to edit. Authorized users can edit any page that is owned by their unit.
3. Put the Academic Catalog page into editing mode by clicking the “Edit Page” icon at the top left corner of the page.
4. Navigate to the tab that you want to edit by using the left side navigation bar. Edit the content in a tab by clicking the yellow pencil labeled “edit (title of tab)” in the right corner of the tab. The page body editor will open in a new page.
5. Using the page body editor, make changes to the content of the tab. The page body editor works much like other word processing programs with a formatting toolbar at the top of the page.
6. Save your changes by clicking “OK” at the bottom of the page body editor.
7. Once you are done making edits, submit your changes to workflow for approval by clicking the green “Start Workflow” button in the bottom right corner of the page. The changes will be published on the live Academic Catalog site once the proposed changes have been approved through all steps of workflow.

Email addresses should be spelled out and a mailto: hyperlink should be used to link the email address to the written text. For example, this might look like: Email: cmss-catalog@illinois.edu.

1. Navigate to the tab that you want to edit by using the left side navigation bar. Edit the content in a tab by clicking the yellow pencil labeled “edit (title of tab)” in the right corner of the tab. The page body editor will open in a new page.
2. Highlight the email address you’ve spelled out in the tab and select the “link” tool on the page body editor. A pop-up for the link tool should open.
3. Select the option “Link to URL”.
4. In the “URL:” textbox enter the words “mailto:” followed by the email you are hyperlinking.
5. Click “OK” to save the changes.

1. Navigate to the tab that you want to edit by using the left side navigation bar. Edit the content in a tab by clicking the yellow pencil labeled “edit (title of tab)” in the right corner of the tab. The page body editor will open in a new page.
2. Highlight the words in the tab you want to use as the link “anchor” and select the “link” tool on the page body editor. A pop-up for the link tool should open.
3. Select the option “Link to URL”.
4. Enter the link you want to hyperlink in the “URL:” textbox.
   1. If you are using a URL from the Academic Catalog, you should only include the stub of the link.
      1. The stub of the link is the portion of the URL that indicates the path that leads to that page. For example, to use the link “http://catalog.illinois.edu/undergraduate/,” omit all the text until “edu” and only include: “/undergraduate/”
5. Under “Link Properties” select the “Open in new window” checkbox.
6. Click “OK” to save the changes.

Headers

Headers should be used to organize sections of information and create hierarchy on a page. Header levels are added using the “Format” tool in the page body editor. There are a total of six heading levels available in the “Format” tool.

Heading 1 should not be used; the page title serves as Heading 1. Your page headings should start as Heading 2 and should be used sequentially as you create sub-sections and nest information. E.g., headers of sub-sections within a Heading 2 should be formatted as Heading 3. Sub-sections within a Heading 3 should be formatted as Heading 4. And so on.

For more information, you may refer to the W3C’s Headings tutorial.

Font

Outside of page headers, Normal style font should be used for all text in paragraphs. Normal style font can be selected from the “Format” tool in the page body editor.

Bullet and Numbered Lists

Bulleted or numbered lists should be used to organize a list of information such as the list of Learning Outcomes. Lists should be formatted using the page body editor to insert bullet points or numbered lists. If text is copied into the page body editor from another document, the text should be reformatted using the page body editor so that the semantic markup accurately identifies the text as a numbered or bulleted list.

When including an email address in a paragraph, emails can be hyperlinked to words/plain text.

For example: “For questions regarding changes to the Academic Catalog, contact the Office of the Registrar.”

When listing contact information, such as in the Contact Information tab, email addresses should be spelled out so that site visitors can choose how they want to interact with this information. Please note that this is a change from previous instructions to hyperlink emails to words/plain text without using the “@” sign and domain. Moving forward, when listing contact information, email addresses should be spelled out to include the domain and a mailto: hyperlink should be used to link the email address to the written text. For example, to list the email for CMSS Catalog you should type: cmss-catalog@illinois.edu.

Websites links that are included in the Catalog page should be checked annually by units to confirm that the links are still working and are up to date, and any broken links should be updated or removed. Linked text should be descriptive and specific to the linked content. Using linked text with language such as “Click Here” or “Read More” is too general and should be avoided.

See W3C’s Make link text meaningful.

Any mentions of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign should adhere to current guidelines outlined in the Campus Administrative Manual. Current guidelines state that “UIUC” should not be used to refer to the Illinois campus.

Units should refer to the Editorial and Style Guide to adhere to guidelines on editing and styling digital content for Illinois.