Overview: Courses Taught

Introduction

The Courses Taught sub-category encompasses Formal Courses as well as Other Teaching Activities/Commentaries.

Courses Taught procedures

About Formal Courses

The Formal Course entry provides for the listing of formal courses taught at institutions, identified by course code, title and years, which are all required fields.

The Course Convenorship check box provides for the information entered to be copied across to the subsequent Course Convenorship sub-category.

There is no restriction on the total number of entries you may add.

Existing Formal Course entries may be edited / updated subsequently, if required, or deleted.

Formal Course entries may be manually sorted into a logical order which will be used when generating CVs and displaying on websites.

Each Formal Course entry on this page will be listed in a new row and will be displayed alternately in a blue / black font colour. This formatting is only used within the Researcher Profile context and purely for ease of visual display of multiple entries.

About Other Teaching Activities/Commentaries

The Other Teaching Activities/Commentaries entry provides for the listing of all other courses taught which do not fall into the previous category. There is no restriction on the total number of entries you may add.

The text relating to the description of the activity is entered into the rich text Activity/Commentary field.

Each Other Teaching Activities/Commentaries entry requires a minimum of a Title to be entered. An assortment of relevant keywords can be entered in the Keywords field.

Existing Other Teaching Activities/Commentaries entries may be edited / updated subsequently, if required, or deleted.

Other Teaching Activities/Commentaries entries may be manually sorted into a logical order which will be used when generating CV’s and displaying on websites.

Each Other Teaching Activities/Commentaries entry on this page will be listed in a new row and will be displayed alternately in a blue / black font colour. This formatting is only used within the Researcher Profile context and purely for ease of visual display of multiple entries.

Working with fields in this sub-category

Field types/fields	Description/field rules
Compulsory fields	All fields which are UCT compulsory fields are noted by * All fields which are NRF compulsory fields are noted by * If synchronisation with the NRF is required, completion of the National Research Foundation (NRF) fields is mandatory. For more information, see: NRF funding overview (external link). Note: Not all academics/researchers require synchronisation with the NRF
Free text fields	Title free text fields are restricted to 100 characters. The NRF Summary text is restricted to 5500 characters. Other free text fields are restricted to 500 characters and have no limit on type of character input.
Extendable select fields	The Institution field is an extendable select type field. After entering three characters into these fields, a drop-down list of similarly named institutions appears. As more characters are entered, the drop-down list will be further refined. Select your institution from the drop-down list, if it appears, or continue entering the name your institution. Institutions which do not appear on the drop-down list will be added to the list once they have been vetted.
Rich text fields	In rich text fields you may apply formatting to the text (bold / italics /underline / strikethrough / alignment / subscript / superscript / bullets / numbering / indentation / special characters). There is no limit on the amount of characters you may enter in this field.
Check box	Check boxes are square selection options. When selected, a check box contains a tick (check) mark. When cleared, a check box is empty. Clicking in the check box toggles the appearance of the tick (check) mark.
Keywords field	Keywords provide a way of assigning an assortment of relevant words to an entry. Each keyword may be separated by a space, comma or semi-colon. When creating a CV, the assigned keywords are displayed. Keywords may contain a maximum of 100 characters.