Procedure: Adding a Formal Course entry

Introduction

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.

Procedure

1. Log in to the UCT Research Portal website with your UCT network credentials.

2. In the Researcher Profiles – Home page, click Courses Taught sub-category.

3. The Researcher Profiles – Courses Taught page opens.

Adding a formal course entry

• Click Add New under Formal Courses.    

4. The Add a Formal Course Entry dialog box appears.

• Enter or select your organisation in the Institution extendable select field.

• Enter the course code in the Course Code field.

• Enter the course title in the Course Title field.

• Enter the years in the Years field.

• Enter the topics in the Topics field.

• Enter the activities in the Activities field.

• If this is a course convenorship, ensure that the Course Convenorship check box is selected.

Saving a formal course entry

• If you want to add another formal course entry, click Save & Add Another and repeat from step 4.

• Click Save & Close.

• The following message displays briefly: “Information was successfully saved.”

5. The Researcher Profiles – Courses Taught page reopens.

6. If necessary, click up / down arrows under Change order to sort the Formal Courses listings by priority.