Curriculum and Academic Program Analyst
www.sjsu.edu
Catalog: https://catalog.sjsu.edu/
The old San José State University course catalog was a relic created in the 1990s with an outdated format based on a fixed template. There was no user interaction, only lists of class descriptions for students to scroll through. If a change was needed, it had to be made on every page—global editing didn’t exist.
Even worse, final changes could only be approved by the external developer, which posed a real problem when they weren’t available.
“When we had urgent updates that needed to take place immediately, we had to patiently wait for a response from the external developer. With Catalog, I click a button and the update is published,” said Sarah Schraeder, SJSU’s Curriculum and Academic Analyst.
As long-time users of Modern Campus CMS, Schraeder and her team were accustomed to the flexibility, ease-of-use and seamless integration provided by Modern Campus CMS. Why couldn’t a catalog tool provide them with the same web governance, easy features and dynamic interaction?
Watching a Catalog demo sealed the deal. Catalog is a best-in-class, interactive catalog management software that lets you connect campus systems and websites directly into your catalog. In less than five months, Catalog was fully integrated into the university’s system. With a host of features, the new catalog tool makes it quicker and easier for Schraeder and her team to create, publish and maintain San José State’s course catalog.
With Catalog, they can:
Catalog also transformed students into power users with all the information they need to plan their college careers found in one easy-to-access catalog.
“Our students and users now interact with catalog information in much more dynamic ways than they could before,” said Schraeder.
“With our old catalog, it felt as if we were in the wrong century,” Schraeder said. “With Catalog, we have entered the 21st century. Modern Campus Catalog takes our catalog to the next level.”
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