Procedure: Editing a Formal Course entry

Introduction

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.

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 displaying the Formal Courses listings on the page.

Editing a formal course entry

• Click Edit next to the Formal Course entry you wish to edit.

4. The Edit a Formal Course Entry dialog box appears for you to edit the applicable fields as necessary.

• Edit or select the organisation in the Institution extendable select field.

• Edit the course code in the Course Code field.

• Edit the course title in the Course Title field.

• Edit the years in the Years field.

• Edit the topics in the Topics field.

• Edit the activities in the Activities field.

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

Saving an edited formal course entry

• Click Save & Close.

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

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.