Exciting news! The shift from Courseworks to New Courseworks is moving along faster than expected!

Originally, the move was scheduled to take place over four academic terms, ending in the fall of 2013. However, over one third of all courses at Columbia are already being hosted in New Courseworks. If your instructors haven’t started using it yet, you can look forward to seeing the new system very soon!

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The first group of Schools and Departments (Medicine, Public Health, Nursing and Dental Medicine, School of Social Work, departments of Anthropology, Statistics and Undergraduate Writing) has completed the transition to New CourseWorks and their Fall 2011 courses are being hosted on the new system.

The early adopters for Fall 2011 include more than 250 instructors from Journalism, SIPA, SEAS, Architecture and Barnard College. These schools and departments will be transitioning fully in the Spring 2012 term.

Columbia University has launched a major technology project to replace the existing CourseWorks system with a new learning management and collaboration system powered by Sakai software technology.

The new system is known as New CourseWorks.

Each academic term starting with Fall 2011, 800 courses, their instructors and approximately 2,500 students will transition to the new CourseWorks system. During the transitional period (some courses on the old system and some on the new), the existing CourseWorks system will remain fully operational and support all of the courses not yet moved to New CourseWorks.

Each term, a group of early adopters will pioneer the system for the future Schools and Departments transitioning.