Course basic information and description

NOTE! Be aware of the effect of the changes you make to a course:

• If a single course belongs to several curricula or study modules, any changes made to it will also update to all the elements it has been linked to.
• You can check the course links to curricula or separate study modules in the course: Links to curricula and separate study modules.
• If the course is included in an already approved curriculum, its name, credits, learning outcomes or content may no longer be changed.
• See the principles of creating a course on the Courses page.
• Find a course on your Peppi desktop by selecting: Curricula > Course units from the top menu.
• Click the Edit button at the top of the page in Peppi to edit the data.
• To copy a course, click Copy.
• Click the Load PDF button to create a pdf file of the course on a printout template named ‘Study unit’.
• To view the old versions of the course, compare them or revert the old version of the course as the working version, click the Versions button. Select the versions you want to view from the drop-down menu. Then click the Show Versions button. The system displays the versions you chose side-by-side for comparison purposes and highlights the differences between the versions in special colour. To revert the old version of the course, click the Resume button next to the version details.

Basic information

The course basic information include e.g. name, code and extent in ECTS credits (min-max). As a rule, only the name and code are mandatory fields. The fields that are mandatory at Jamk are indicated in the Peppi course template. Below is one example of basic information fields.

See Course codes in Peppi

You can define several degree programmes, classifications and teaching languages for a study unit.

• When you type at least two characters in the field, the system opens a drop-down menu with options for you to choose. When you select an option, the system adds it in the selection field.
• To add another option, use the selection field again.
• To delete an option from the selection field, click the cross in front of the option.

The following classifications must be added for courses if the course is offered for the groups concerned: Open UAS, CampusOnline, ExchangeStudents or EduFutura.

Description

Descriptions are mostly free-text fields that are intended for specifying in more detail the content of the course, the learning objectives and the assessment criteria. At Jamk, this information is filled out by the person responsible for the course. Peppi course description and implementation description templates as well as more detailed instructions are available at the bottom of this page under Documents.

• All course descriptions are written in both Finnish and English.
• Type the Finnish descriptions in the ‘In Finnish’ fields and those in English in the ‘In English’ fields.
• If the course will be offered in both Finnish and English, only one course will be prepared. In this case, the descriptions must, of course, be provided in both languages.
• The course evaluation scale is populated from the course to the implementation.

Links to curricula and separate study modules

This section describes the links of the course. The same information is also displayed on a separate tab.

Validate

This is used for defining whether language and/or content validation is needed for the course concerned. If you serve as content or language validator for the course, tick ‘Content checked’ or ‘Translation checked’, respectively, when you have completed your validation.

Comment

The ‘Comment’ section displays the official’s comments related to the details of the course concerned. The content of the ‘Comment’ field is not shown to the students.

Documents

Peppi course description template ECTS v6.0 (docx)

Peppi implementation description template ECTS v5.0 (docx)

Peppi study module description template v1.0 (docx)