For the 2015-16 School year, an entirely new Master Course Catalog (often referred to as the 'Course Deck') was created. Over time, the existing course catalog began to become clogged with duplicate, obsolete, and unnecessary courses. Very few of these courses had accurate and useful course descriptions. Also, there wasn't a clear and easy to follow method of numbering our courses. Finally, some of the course attributes (credit type, credit value, course length, etc.) were inaccurate and causing issues with students enrolled in these courses. To correct these issues, a committee was formed to audit the entire catalog and create a new, streamlined course catalog that will be used for the 15-16 school year and beyond.

Change Log

2020-2021
- the majority of year-long courses worth 1.0 HS credits have been split into two courses, each lasting one semester and worth 0.5 credits. The expectation is that these students are scheduled as if these were year-long courses.
2022-2023
- SPED courses (designated with an “E” suffix) are phased out in favor of a more inclusive model of instruction. Regular course numbers are used, and specific section numbers designate resource rooms and inclusion classrooms.

Basic Structure

Course numbers have a minimum 6-digit length
- The first digit represents the Grade Level designated for the course. 0 = Kindergarten, 9 = all grades 9-12
- The second digit represents the Content Area as shown in the chart below
- If a course is leveled (as in the example screenshot above), the Course Level is represented by the 5th digit
- The Course Length is represented by the 6th digit. 0 = Year-Long, 1 = Quarter, 5 = Semester
- If the course was previously a year-long course (prior to 2020-21) and has been split into two semester course, a period (.) is added after the 6th digit, and the 8th character represents the Semester
- A single-letter Suffix can optionally be added at the end of a course number to further clarify the intended audience (see chart below)

The table below shows how course numbers are organized based on the position of the digits in the course number

Using a structure where digits have certain meaning makes it easier to sort, group, identify, and maintain courses.
These rules apply to the 2015 District Course Catalog in Infinite Campus (catalogID = 4)

1st Digit	Grade Level	2nd Digit	Content Area	3rd/4th/5th Digit - Sub Content Areas			6th Digit	Course Length	Days / Week	Credit	Notes

1st Digit	Grade Level	2nd Digit	Content Area	3rd/4th/5th Digit - Sub Content Areas	6th Digit	Course Length	Days / Week	Credit	Notes
0	KG	0	Mathematics	Math Sub-Content	0	Year	5	1.00	Traditional Courses - 120 Seat hours minimum, 1.0 credits Courses split into semesters in 2020-21 are still considered year-long courses, as they must be scheduled together, so they still have 0 as the sixth digit
1	1st	1	Science	Science Sub-Content	1	Quarter	5	0.25	Traditional Courses - 30 Seat hours minimum, 0.25 credits (if applicable) Quarter-length courses are mostly used 6th grade unified arts courses, and are rarely used elsewhere College Credit Plus 3 or more credit-hour courses convert to 1.0* credits (per ODE guidelines* here)
2	2nd	2	English / Language Arts	ELA Sub-Content	2				unused
3	3rd	3	Social Studies	Social Studies Sub-Content	3	Semester	varies	0.33	College Credit Plus 1 credit-hour courses convert to 0.33* credits (per ODE guidelines* here)
4	4th	4	Technology	Technology Sub-Content	4				unused
5	5th	5	Health / Physical Education	Health/PE Sub-Content	5	Semester	5	0.50	Traditional Courses - 60 Seat hours minimum, 0.5 credits An exception is Physical Education, which is 1 semester but is only 0.25 credits.
6	6th	6	Fine Arts	Fine Arts Sub-Content	6	Semester	5	0.66	College Credit Plus 2 credit-hour courses convert to 0.66* credits (per ODE guidelines* here)
7	7th	7	World Languages	World Language Sub-Content	7				unused
8	8th	8	Career Tech**	Career Tech Sub-Content	8				unused
9	9th - 12th	9	Other / Elective	Other	9	Varies			Non-Credit Courses
P	Pre-K
N	Non-Instructional
T	Teacher Courses
C	CCP Courses	1-9, A-Z	Specific College - see chart below
- Non-Instructional courses are not for credit. These include courses used for attendance and blocker courses used to identify where a student is physically located at that time - Used to identify where teachers are in the school day (TEACHER DUTY, TEACHER CONFERENCE, etc.) These are optional. - College Credit Plus courses ** - All Career Tech courses must have Curriculum = VT, VN or VM (Career Tech Options)

Suffix Definitions

Suffix	Course Type	Notes

Suffix	Course Type	Notes
A	Non-Attendance	6th grade courses offered at K-8 buildings that will not require period attendance.
B	Block Course	Courses that are taught for longer times during the school day (i.e. two periods instead of one) but only for a semester. Example setup here.
D	Digital course	Online courses used for Credit Advancement or at the BlendED school
E	Exceptional Students (SPED)	Special Education courses NOTE: Beginning in the 2022-23 school year, most of these are being phased out in grades 6-12 to move to a more inclusive model. Details here: Special Education
F	Credit Flex	Students may request credits for courses taught by unconventional methods
G	Gifted	Gifted courses ... these do not always have a 'generic' equivalent, but adding the G at the end makes them easy to identify
H	Home Instruction	Courses for students on Home Instruction
L	English Learners	English as a Second Language courses
M	Mastery	Compacted course for students who have documented readiness through approved means in programs incorporating an accelerated, mastery pacing of instruction.
R	Credit Recovery	Courses used for Credit Recovery through online program (APEX) for high school students Also used for Saturday Super Reader (elementary reading program)
S	Summer School	Courses offered during summer school
T	Trimester	Course is taught for 3 periods with a final grade for each of the 3 terms
V	VCAP	Virtual Credit Advancement Program
X	Exceptions / Special Cases	These are used rarely, when a new course has to be created for a correction or special purpose
Multiple suffixes may be used for courses that meet more than one criteria. For example, a Special Education Course that is being taught as a Block course. This would have a suffix of EB

Semester Designation

Beginning in 20-21, year-long high school courses have been split into two semester courses. With this change, there is an update to the course naming and numbering

Before	After		Notes

Before	After		Notes
920010 – ENGLISH 9	920010.1 - ENGLISH 9 (X)	920010.2 - ENGLISH 9 (Y)	.1 and .2 at the end of the course number indicate the semester in which the course is intended to be taken (X) and (Y) are added at the end of the course name to indicate the courses are taught in different semesters, as course numbers do not appear on report cards, schedules, or transcripts suffixes as described above remain at the end of the course number, after .1 or .2 Courses ending in a 5 were already one semester in length, so there were no changes to the course numbers or names Courses that end in .3 are trimester courses with no quarter grading tasks.
920010L - ENGLISH 9	920010.1L - ENGLISH 9 (X)	920010.2L - ENGLISH 9 (Y)
930245 - PSYCHOLOGY	930245 - PSYCHOLOGY

Specific Content Areas

The 3rd, 4th, and 5th digits are used to uniquely identify courses within a content area. Each content area is further broken into sub-content areas (i.e Music, Art, Theatre under Fine Arts). Sub content areas use digits 3 and 4 in most cases. Where applicable, the fifth digit will denote the level of a course. If there is only one version of a course in a sub-content area, it should be a 0. Leveled versions begin with a 1 and go up from there.

Each table below contains one content area an several sub-content areas

Mathematics (0)

Mathematics (0)
3rd / 4th Digit	Sub-Content Area	3rd / 4th Digit	Sub-Content Area	3rd / 4th Digit	Sub-Content Area
00				90	Test Prep
01	Geometry	11	Integrated Math	99	Gifted (Columbus Gifted Academy only)
02	Algebra	12	College Prep
03	Academy	13	Intervention / ALEKS Math
04	Statistics	14	Finance
05	Pre-Calculus	15	Modeling & Reasoning
06	Calculus	16	Data Science
07	International Baccalaureate (IB)
08	Advanced Placement (AP)
09	Test Prep (old)
10	Transition	20	General Math

Science (1)

Science (1)
3rd / 4th Digit	Sub-Content Area	3rd / 4th Digit	Sub-Content Area	3rd / 4th Digit	Sub-Content Area
00	Elementary
01		11	Agriscience	30	Environmental
02		12	PLTW	40	Physical
03		13	Biomedical	50	Chemistry
04		14	Bioscience	60	Materials Science
05		15		70	Physics
06		16		90	Test Prep
07		17
08		18
09		19
10	Biology	20	Anatomy/Physiology

English / Language Arts (2)

English / Language Arts (2)
3rd / 4th Digit	Sub-Content Area	3rd / 4th Digit	Sub-Content Area	3rd / 4th Digit	Sub-Content Area
00	General English			25	Intervention / Enrichment
01	Media Arts	11		30	Test Prep (old)
02		12		35	Literature
03		13		40	Communication
04		14		45	International Baccalaureate (IB)
05	Speech	15	Reading	50

Master Scheduling - Secondary

Course Numbering & Naming Standards