Entering Basic Course-Related Data

A new course in the Course Catalogue can only be set up by a person with the katal_a right. The course can be setting up in:

To set up a course, simply fill in the mandatory fields in the simplified form. After it has been set up, all other information can be completed by another person, a holder of the lower katal_b right, or the head of the guaranteeing department.

This text only provides details on filling in the sections in the application:

Basic course-related data is filled in by persons according to their access right level (katal_a, katal_b, and katal_c). The appearance of the form for filling in/changing/correcting basic data about a single course varies depending on the access rights of the person accessing it.

Basic course-related data is filled in via the following application:

Course code

When setting up a new course, choose a suitable code. The course code must not be empty, it may only contain lowercase and uppercase letters without diacritics, the underscore '_', and it must not start with a digit.

The course code is unique

It is not possible for two different courses to have the same code, not even if the first course has already been cancelled and will no longer be offered. The check for meeting study requirements is performed against completed codes; therefore, changing the meaning of a code would have very unpleasant consequences. Likewise, changing an already created code for a given course is strongly discouraged, especially after the course has begun to be taught.

Select the department the course will be associated with

The rights to edit the course are evaluated based on its categorization. A person who has the katal_a, katal_b, or katal_c right for the department listed in the mandatory field “Select the department the course will be associated with” can manage the course.

Guarantor department

The guarantor department bears the academic responsibility for the courses. It ensures the quality of the course content, provides the teaching staff, handles coordination and organization, and, last but not least, monitors consistency and continuity. Search for the responsible department or other workplace. You can remove a selected department by clicking the cross icon.

Guarantor

Enter the person who guarantees the course. Typically, this is one of the lecturers. The person listed here (must be from VŠTE) obtains the katal_c right to edit supplementary course information, as do other teachers of the course.

Supplier department

The supplier department is any workplace of the school to which the revenue for the enrolled students of the course will be credited. Multiple supplier departments can be entered. For each entered supplier department, the share of revenue for enrolled students can be selected as a percentage.

“Cancel course” button

The course data will be deleted. If you only want to block the use of this course, click on “Do not offer”. After you click “Cancel”, a confirmation “really cancel this course?” will appear (displayed at the bottom, at the end of the page). Unless you click “really cancel” again, the course will not be cancelled. A course can only be cancelled if no other applications are linked to it – i.e., no one has registered for it in the given term yet.

Offer/do not offer this course?

Courses marked as “do not offer” will not be available to students for registration and enrollment and will not be displayed in the Catalogue Browser.

Pre-fill the form with the content of another course

If you are setting up a course similar to another one (set of teachers, similar names...), you can simplify your work by entering the code and term of the model course and clicking “Search”. All sections except for the course code section will be pre-filled.

Name

This section allows you to enter the course name in the language of instruction.

Tip: Special characters of national alphabets and diacritics

If you cannot correctly type letters with diacritics, contact your ICT support – your browser is not configured correctly. The application allows entering names including characters of national alphabets.

Short course name in the language of instruction (max. 30 characters)

For the purposes of listings with limited space (various lists, etc.), enter a suitably shortened name.

Language of instruction

Czech is typically selected here, but if the course is taught in another language, please specify by selecting from the menu. If the course is taught in another language that is missing from the menu, write to vsteis@fi.muni.cz. We will add the requested language to the selection immediately.

In the form within the application for filling in basic course information:

you can enter several persons involved in teaching the course (typically teachers). For each person, their classification/role is recorded. Persons classified as lecturers implicitly obtain the katal_c right (editing the course syllabus and other information). If a person is not in the university database, fill in their details manually and assign them a representative from the school's staff who can be contacted more regularly.

Persons involved in teaching have various rights within the course:

Lecturer

Persons classified as lecturers and course guarantors have the katal_c right assigned by default. This right allows them to add and remove other teachers (e.g., assistants for grading essays) or edit supplementary course information. They can change seminar groups, select persons for sending e-mails, export lists, and import lists.

Seminar tutor

They can change seminar groups, select persons for sending e-mails, export lists, and import lists. A person listed as an instructor will only be included in the course opinion poll for the seminar they teach.

Assistant, Alternate Examiner

A person listed in the course as an assistant or alternate examiner will not be listed in the course opinion poll. An assistant cannot send mass e-mails in the course. Neither a alternate examiner nor an assistant can confirm the correctness of the data entered for the course.

Overview of personal rights according to selected applications, which behave differently depending on the assigned right:

Course Catalogue

Persons with the katal_c right (i.e., lecturers and course guarantors who have this right assigned implicitly) can add and remove other teachers (add other lecturers, seminar tutors, as well as assistants for grading tests or essays). Persons with the katal_c right can also edit supplementary course information (see more detailed help Edit syllabus and additional information provided). A full listing of course information in the Course Catalogue and confirmation of the correctness of the data entered in the Course Catalogue can be performed by persons listed in the course as lecturer, seminar tutor, contact person, or guarantor, as well as the head of the course's guaranteeing department.

Operations with seminar groups in the course

Information about seminar groups may only be changed by a person entered in the course as a lecturer or seminar tutor. Seminar group information can be changed if the editing option is enabled for the given term.

Student Course Opinion Poll

A person listed in the course as an assistant or alternate examiner will not be listed in the course opinion poll. A person listed as an instructor will only be included in the course opinion poll for the seminar they teach.

Selection of persons for sending e-mails, export list, import list

Applications for mass work with course students may only be used by a person entered in the course as a lecturer or seminar tutor.

More details about individual rights can be found in the help question Who can work with the Course Catalogue?

It is sufficient to assign them a single role – lecturer – in the application:

In the event that the final number of credits for a course is influenced by another factor besides the basic number of credits, specify the credit function that determines this. The credit function can be filled in via the application:

• Number of credits – Enter the basic number of credits that a student receives for the course. If you must enter a non-integer, use a decimal point.
• max 10 kred – The student chooses the number of credits. In total (across all repetitions of the course), a maximum of 10 credits can be obtained for the course.
• max 12 kred – The student chooses the number of credits. In total (across all repetitions of the course), a maximum of 12 credits can be obtained for the course.
• max 20 kred – The student chooses the number of credits. In total (across all repetitions of the course), a maximum of 20 credits can be obtained for the course.
• nulová – No credit function is used.
• od 1 krok 1 kred – The student chooses the number of credits. Permitted values: 1, 2, ... up to the value specified in the Number of Credits field.
• od 2 krok 1 kred – The student chooses the number of credits. Permitted values: 2, 3, ... up to the value specified in the Number of Credits field.
• od 2 krok 2 kred – The student chooses the number of credits. Permitted values: 2, 4, ... up to the value specified in the Number of Credits field.
• od 2 krok 4 kred – The student chooses the number of credits. Permitted values: 2, 6, 10, ... up to the value specified in the Number of Credits field.
• od 3 krok 1 kred – The student chooses the number of credits. Permitted values: 3, 4, ... up to the value specified in the Number of Credits field.
• od 3 krok 3 kred – The student chooses the number of credits. Permitted values: 3, 6, ... up to the value specified in the Number of Credits field.
• od 4 krok 2 kred – The student chooses the number of credits. Permitted values: 4, 6, ... up to the value specified in the Number of Credits field.
• od 5 krok 1 kred – The student chooses the number of credits. Permitted values: 5, 6, ... up to the value specified in the Number of Credits field.
• od 5 krok 5 kred – The student chooses the number of credits. Permitted values: 5, 10, ... up to the value specified in the Number of Credits field.
• od 6 krok 6 kred – The student chooses the number of credits. Permitted values: 6, 12, ... up to the value specified in the Number of Credits field.
• od 10 krok 1 kred – The student chooses the number of credits. Permitted values: 10, 11, ... up to the value specified in the Number of Credits field.
• od 10 krok 5 kred – The student chooses the number of credits. Permitted values: 10, 15, ... up to the value specified in the Number of Credits field.
• od 15 krok 5 kred – The student chooses the number of credits. Permitted values: 15, 20, ... up to the value specified in the Number of Credits field.
• plus ukončení – If the course is completed with an examination, 2 extra credits are added; with a colloquium, 1 extra credit is added; for other types of completion, the student receives only the credits specified in the Number of Credits field.
• plus 1 za k – If the course is completed with a colloquium, 1 extra credit is added; for other types of completion, the student receives only the credits specified in the Number of Credits field.
• plus 1 za zk – If the course is completed with an examination, 1 extra credit is added; for other types of completion, the student receives only the credits specified in the Number of Credits field.
• plus 2 za k – If the course is completed with a colloquium, 2 extra credits are added; for other types of completion, the student receives only the credits specified in the Number of Credits field.
• plus 2 za zk – If the course is completed with an examination, 2 extra credits are added; for other types of completion, the student receives only the credits specified in the Number of Credits field.
• plus 3 za zk – If the course is completed with an examination, 3 extra credits are added; for other types of completion, the student receives only the credits specified in the Number of Credits field.
• plus 4 za zk – If the course is completed with an examination, 4 extra credits are added; for other types of completion, the student receives only the credits specified in the Number of Credits field.
• plus 5 za k – If the course is completed with a colloquium, 5 extra credits are added; for other types of completion, the student receives only the credits specified in the Number of Credits field.
• příf plus uk k 1 zk 2 plus 1 > 4 – If the course is completed with an examination, 2 extra credits are added; if completed with a colloquium, one extra credit is added. If the course has a default number of credits greater than 4 and is completed with an examination, an additional credit is added.
• příf plus uk plus > 4 – If the course is completed with an examination, 2 extra credits are added. If the course has a default number of credits greater than 4, an additional credit is added for completion by examination.
• rozhodnutím učitele – A maximum of the number specified in the Default Number of Credits field is awarded for the course, but the teacher can reduce this down to 1 credit.

If you use a different, custom credit function that is not available in the menu, describe its behavior in the text field for information purposes.

In the Course Completion section, you can edit the completion type (examination, colloquium, credit), the option for other completions, grading by all teachers, recording credits in the Teacher's Notebook, the possibility of completion outside the examination period, supplementary notes on the completion method, the number of credits, and the credit function.

For course enrollment, obligations to have completed other study requirements may be established. You refer to other courses by their course code. Required courses (prerequisites) for a course are entered in:

The following conditions can be set:

Label	Meaning: it is necessary to have
P10	completed P10 (enter the course code)
P10 || P11	completed P10 or P11 (one course out of several options separated by ||)
P10 && P11	completed P10 and P11
!P10	not completed P10
(!P10) && (!P11)	completed neither P10 nor P11
NOW(P10)	simultaneously registered for or enrolled in P10. For the required course (P10), it is further checked whether the major/field matches or if there is a 'consent' prerequisite. Other prerequisites of course P10 are not checked.
NOW_LIMIT(P10)	simultaneously registered without problems (within the capacity limit, meeting any other prerequisites) or simultaneously enrolled
!NOWANY(P10,P11,P12)	simultaneously neither registered for nor enrolled in any of P10, P11, P12
program(M-TV)	student must be a student of the given study programme
smer(BIVT)	student must be a student of the given specialisation
obor(HOT)	student must be a student of the given field of study/study plan
forma(P)	student must be a student of the given mode of study
typ_studia(BM)	student must be a student of the given type of study (B, M, N, D, C, R)
semestr(2)	student must be enrolled in the given semester
rocnik(1)	student must be enrolled in the given year of study
studijni_skupina(N)	student must be a member of the given study group; a space in the study group name can be written with an underscore: studijni_skupina(Group_A)
souhlas	explicit (marked in IS VŠTE) teacher's consent (it is first necessary to apply for the consent)
kredity_min(125)	at least 125 credits obtained
maxatr(3, core)	enrolled in at most the specified number of courses with the specified attribute
vycet	expresses how many of all required prerequisites have been met
nesplneno_tv	fewer than 4 credits (zápočty) obtained for PE (Physical Education) in the full-time mode of Bachelor's or Master's programmes (B, M)
maxszz(SZZ_MDP, 2)	enrollment permitted for students who have fewer than three grades from a final state examination subject with the code S_SZZ_PREDMETY
szz_vyplneno	enrollment permitted for students whose final thesis archive has been accepted
szz_vyplneno_tema	enrollment permitted for students who have enrolled in another course with the 'szz_vyplneno_tema' prerequisite and simultaneously have their final thesis archive accepted (if the student has not yet enrolled in any course with the 'szz_vyplneno_tema' prerequisite, the archive's completeness is not checked)
sem_sk(P10/S1)	student must be enrolled in the given seminar group (S1) of course P10

Furthermore, it is possible to set who handles student requests for an exemption/consent to enrollment (teachers, lecturers, course guarantor, contact person, selected holder of the s_studium right).

Persons with the appropriate access rights (katal_a, katal_b, and katal_c) can further edit the following items regarding basic course information in the application:

edit the following items concerning basic course information:

• Grades can be entered by all teachers of the department
• Record credits in the Teacher's Notebook
• The course can be completed outside the examination period of the term in which it is taught
• Enter a note regarding the completion method
• The course can be enrolled in repeatedly because each semester run of the course differs
• Teaching periodicity (every week, every other week, in blocks, unspecified)
• Maximum number of enrolled students
• Enter a note about restrictions
• List of fields of study / study plans for which the course is intended
• Option to offer the course outside the core fields of study
• Who handles student requests for an exemption/consent to enrollment? (teachers, lecturers, course guarantor, contact person, holder of the s_studium right)
• Weekly hourly workload (lectures, seminars and practicals, laboratory, projects, other or otherwise)
• How often is the course offered? (unspecified, annually, every term, one-off, once every two years, last time, no longer offered, once every three years)
• Special course name for the Diploma Supplement (also in English)
• Option to provide the teacher with information about students' gender and the justification for this option
• Do not list the course on the Diploma Supplement
• Exclude the course from the Course Opinion Poll
• The course is related to the final thesis
• The course substitutes a placement/internship
• The course has placement evaluation enabled
• The course has the Exam Date Exchange disabled
• The course substitutes a study stay (abroad, domestic, mixed)
• Primary teaching method (contact, synchronous online, asynchronous)
• The course is available (for student registration, for the Shopping Centre, for both student registration and the Shopping Centre)
• Add course attributes
• Add specific teaching support options (providers and their roles: interpreter, transcriber, note-taker, personal assistant, technical or pedagogical assistant)

Newly set up courses appear in the Course Catalogue with a delay. The length of the delay depends on the system load and can be up to several hours. Try searching for the course later.