How-To: Course Audit Updates

Pull most recent CU-SIS info and update the course audit files

Run the following code sequence

Files that are generated

  • Generated in the C:\Users\darcange\OD.new\OneDrive - UCB-O365\CourseAudit folder

  • These files are updated each time the above code sequence is run

The “_all” master file

  • audit(term_cd)_all.xlsx

    • Contains all classes for all campuses participating in FCQs in one file

The “_campus” files

  • audit(term_cd)_campus(campus_cd).xlsx

    • A file for each separate campus listing all classes in one file

The “dept” files

  • audit(term_cd)_(campus)_(coll or campus_cd)_(dept_cd).xlsx

    • Traditional audit files for each individual campus/department

    • Example: C:\Users\darcange\OD.new\OneDrive - UCB-O365\CourseAudit\audit2241_CUBLD_BLDR_APRD.xlsx

  • Because the audit files are a snapshot of the CU-SIS data, it’s good to create archive versions

The “final” audit archive

  • At the end of each semester, the audit files from above are moved to their own folder in the “Previous_Semesters” folder

    • C:\Users\darcange\OD.new\OneDrive - UCB-O365\CourseAudit\Previous_Semesters\(term_cd)

    • This is a snapshot of the CU-SIS data the last time they were updated in the previous semester

    • However, this doesn’t show how that information changed over time

The “_bak” audit archive

  • Example: audit2237_091523.xlsx

  • Each time the code sequence is run, a raw file with all of the CU-SIS information from that day is created and timestamped in the CourseAudit_bak folder under the current semester

    • This creates 25-30 snapshots of CU-SIS data throughout the semester, which we can later use for troubleshooting errors or inconsistencies

  • “c20” and “clscu_r” files

  • Each time the code sequence is run, the c20 and clscu_r files are overwritten with the most recent CU-SIS data