Adding Faculty Narratives
A narrative is the description of the sustainability-related content that is specific to your offering of the course.
If a course that you teach is already in the Sustainability Catalog, follow these directions. You can check to see whether or not the course is in the Sustainability Catalog by following the "Browse Sustainable Courses" link on the home page.
From the home page, http://suscat.calpoly.edu/:
- Choose the "Faculty Log In" link on the left-hand side. If you are already logged in, select the "Add Narrative" link from the home page and skip to step 4.
- Enter your username and password. If you do not have a username and password yet, please contact Miles Clark at mmclark@calpoly.edu. Click "login."
- Choose the "Add Narrative" link.
- Select the course you teach from the "Course" dropdown menu. Courses are listed alphabetically by prefix.
- Click in the "Description" box and type in the description of the specific sustainability-related content that you offer when you teach the course.
- Click the "Submit Query" button.
- The narrative you have just added will appear under the course title. If you want to edit the narrative, click on the course title. You will return to the page with the description box into which you can enter text. When you have finished editing your text, click "Update Narrative." Your edited narrative will appear under the course title. You will see a note under the narrative that says, "Expires: yyyy/mm/dd." Every narrative has an expiration date automatically assigned by the system. You will need to update your narratives annually.
Deleting Faculty Narratives
- Choose the Faculty Log In link on the left-hand side. If you are already logged in, select the "Your Narratives" link from the home page and skip to step 3.
- Enter your username and password. If you do not have a username and password yet, please contact Miles Clark at mmclark@calpoly.edu. Click "login."
- Select the title of the course for which you want to delete a narrative.
- Select the "Delete Narrative" button.
Adding a Course
- Choose the "Faculty Log In" link on the left-hand side. If you are already logged in, select the "Add Course" link from the home page and skip to step 4.
- Enter your username and password. If you do not have a username and password yet, please contact Miles Clark at mmclark@calpoly.edu. Click "login."
- Select the "Add Course" link.
- Choose a prefix from the "Prefix" dropdown menu.
- Type the course number into the "Number" field.
- Type the course title into the "Title" field.
- Click the "Submit Query" button.
- If you want to add a narrative for the course you have added, select the "Add Narrative" link.
- Follow the directions for adding a narrative beginning from step 4.
A note on adding courses: once you have added the course, you will not be able to edit the course title, nor will you be able to delete a course. You are only able to edit and delete your own narratives. Academic Programs will check new additions to ensure that the title entered matches the catalog title.