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Syllabus and CV management for Texas House Bill 2504

Texas House Bill 2504 identifies significant syllabus requirements to colleges and universities. Concourse Syllabus has everything you need to meet them effortlessly.

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Syllabus and CV management for Texas House Bill 2504

Texas House Bill 2504 identifies significant syllabus requirements to colleges and universities. Concourse Syllabus has everything you need to meet them effortlessly.

Compliance with state legislation begins here.

Since 2009, Texas House Bill 2504  has required that higher education institutions make specific course and instructor information available to the public, including course descriptions, outcomes, and instructor CVs. Since then, many Texas institutions have had to reimagine their processes and find a solution to meet these strict requirements in a quick and effective way.


For more than a decade, Concourse has been the most trusted and widely-used online syllabus management platform in Texas. We have helped many institutions as they create and manage syllabi and CVs online, while at the same time ensuring that the information is accessible for all users within three (3) clicks from the institution’s website. The Concourse syllabus management solution is a powerhouse for schools who want to standardize, report on, and manage syllabus content within one platform.

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Stay ahead of the law

Texas House Bill 2504 requires post-secondary institutions to:

  • Provide public syllabi and instructor curriculum vitaes that can be accessed by current and prospective students
  • Retain and make these records available for the required retention duration
  • Provide access to CVs that are searchable by keywords and phrases
  • Provide descriptions of the course requirements and subject matter of each lecture or discussion
  • Provide compliance reports to the state every other year

Collect

Centrally manage and store syllabi and instructor CVs

Search

Find syllabi and CVs by keyword and advanced criteria

View

Access online and offline syllabi and instructor CVs for students, staff, and the public

Report

Monitor and demonstrate compliance progress

Concourse does all this, and much more.

Two options for your journey to compliance:

Option 1: Concourse Starter

Concourse Starter is your first step to organize syllabi online without additional investment in IT infrastructure or administrative services. Instructors continue authoring Word or PDF files, which they then upload directly through the LMS. From there they can be viewed by students, checked by administrators, and discovered by the community.

Our gateway to syllabus management gives you:
A public-facing repository of all syllabi
Content search for keywords and phrases
Integration with your LMS and SIS
Meaningful reporting tools
A lighter lift for IT and a smooth transition for faculty

Option 2: Concourse Syllabus

Concourse Syllabus is a template-based syllabus management solution that provides your students, faculty, and administrators a consistent and centralized syllabus experience. Our full syllabus management system will help you transform your syllabus management process and ensure your syllabi meet all of the requirements of this new law. 

Our full syllabus management system has all of the features of Starter, plus:
Tiered templates for institutional and course information
An intuitive and familiar syllabus editing interface
Content migration from existing systems
More powerful reporting and search features
Full WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility compliance

Unsure which option is right for you? Let’s talk through it together. 

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