Submit Course Outline Updates in CourseDog

This guide walks you through the process of logging into CourseDog, searching for a specific course, and submitting a proposal for course outline updates. It is useful for faculty or staff who need to update course information and ensure curriculum changes are properly documented and approved.

Centre for Teaching and Learning
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Coursedog

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Navigate to [https://app.coursedog.com/](https://app.coursedog.com/#/login?continue=%2F)

Enter your Durham College email address.

Click "Next".

You will be redirected to our Durham College Microsoft email login page. Enter your password and "Sign in".

Click "Courses".

Click the "Search for Courses" field.

Enter the course code or name of the course you are proposing a course outline change for and press enter.

Select the correct course.

Click "Propose changes".

Click "Select form".

Click "Course Outline Updates (Level 1)". "Brand New Course" form is only applicable if you are creating a brand new course outline for a new course code.

Click "Submit".

Please select the effective academic term. The "effective academic term" is the term the first intake of students will be impacted by the proposed changes. For example, if you are completing a course outline in spring 2026 for your fall course, you will select "Fall 2026".

Under "Are there any course outline updates for the effective academic term?", click "Yes" if you are proposing changes, or "No" if you are not.

To propose a change to the course description, click "Yes".

After selecting "Yes", you can now type in the course description edit.

To propose changes to course learning outcomes, click "Yes".

After selecting "yes", you can now type in the change proposed.

When you are updating your Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs), don't forget to update the rest of our course: - Adding CLOs? Update your Evaluation Plan and Learning Plan - Editing CLOs? Update your Evaluation Plan and Learning Plan - Deleting CLOs? Renumber the CLOs and update your - Evaluation Plan and Learning Plan

To propose changes to Essential Employability Skills (EES) select the drop-down.

Then select the EES(s). Select all applicable.

To propose a change to the evaluation plan, select the field you want to edit, including category, weight, week(s) due, description, CLO(s) or EES(s) assessed.

To delete an evaluation, select the evaluation, then click the trash can.

Based on the change, you may wish to add a new evaluation by pressing "Add New".

To propose a change to the learning plan, select the field you want to edit, including week/module, CLOs, learning objectives/topics, or required preparation.

To delete a week/module, click the trash can. Note: We suggest editing the week instead of deleting.

To add a new week/module at the bottom of the learning plan, click "Add New".

Select "Yes" or "No" if you would like to CTL Teaching and Learning team member to review your proposed edits and advise what you would like reviewed. This field is not required.

Enter your rationale for changes.

Click "Submit Proposal".

Looking to change course name, requisites, equivilencies, credits, hours, or delivery mode?