Business benefits

Improve student acquisition and retention through a curriculum portfolio adaptive to market changes.

Significantly improve governance & timeliness with an enhanced ability to track, manage and report on the state of the curriculum at each stage in the approvals process.

Increase staff efficiency through reduced data entry, improved information integrity & greater information re-use.

Utilise curriculum mapping to ensure emerging curricula meet the needs of regulators, professional institutions, and university guidelines by linking graduate attributes, learning outcomes, and assessment tasks to key objectives and competencies.

Consolidate and catalog information in a secure, reliable, and accessible Single Source of Truth - remove your business dependency on an unscalable tangle of spreadsheets, emails & documents in unmanaged shared folders.

Enable innovation and creativity in curriculum development with support for micro-credentials, sandbox environments, and secure, engaging collaboration.

Empower academics to focus on curriculum development & delivery rather than curriculum administration & bureaucracy.

High integrity Single Source of Truth

Global IT Factory’s Curriculum Management System (CMS) is a cloud-based Single Source of Truth for all curriculum information. The permissions and security model ensures users are only able to access information for the faculties, colleges and schools they are allowed to access. All changes to information are tracked enabling questions such as “Who changed What, When and Why?” to be readily answered. Integration with Student Management Systems, Handbook portals, Learning Management Systems, and other core systems can be readily achieved, ensuring consistent, reliable and high-integrity distribution of approved curriculum information.

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Program Rules / Curriculum Structure

The Curriculum Management System (CMS) boasts a comprehensive Program Rules engine, enabling universities to adeptly manage and publish diverse curriculum structures for all their programs, from complex double degrees to essential diplomas. This versatile solution supports any curriculum design, facilitating the creation, approval, and modification of course structures with ease.

Through detailed course lists and logic rules, the CMS empowers faculties to develop curriculum frameworks that are meticulously reviewed and refined as needed. Its unique capability for rule compartmentalisation, using reusable substructures, allows for efficient organisation of Majors, Minors, and Specialisations, enhancing educational adaptability.

Moreover, the CMS efficiently incorporates micro-credentials, offering flexible pathways that complement traditional degrees and meet modern educational trends. This ensures that Program Rules and Curriculum Structure are optimally aligned with current academic standards and industry expectations.

Programme Rules

Workflow driven Business Processes

Global IT Factory’s Curriculum Management System (CMS) incorporates a highly flexible workflow engine that is used to track, manage, and report on the progress of curriculum through the review and approval processes. It readily lets you see where you are today, how you got there, and where to next.

The solution supports whichever committees and approval steps your organisation may use, adapting seamlessly to your specific governance structures. It enables workflows to be defined on a university-wide basis, or to have faculty, college, or school-specific variations, offering customised process management tailored to the unique needs of each academic unit.

Automatic user notification comes as standard, ensuring actions are taken when required, and key milestones are communicated to the most appropriate groups and individuals, facilitating a cohesive and efficient progression of curriculum development and approval.

Workflow management

Template-driven Curriculum Design

Global IT Factory’s Curriculum Management System (CMS) manages all aspects of Programs, Courses and Classes. This includes all facets of student facing handbook and internal administrative information. It extends across learning outcomes, assessment tasks, marketing descriptions, business cases, fees, lecture/tutor contact details, campuses, locations, and more.

To ensure the Curriculum Information Model is right for your institution, the CMS is completely template driven. The forms, fields & permissions are entirely configurable by your curriculum administrators, in most cases with no help from IT. The platform uses your language, your business processes, your roles & responsibilities.
The CMS enables your curriculum information to be refined and revised as business improvements are identified, automatically ensuring all new curriculum take advantage of these improvements, while leaving historical curriculum as-is.

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CMS Overview

CMS Overview

Explore in depth: Dive into our CMS Overview to discover how our solution can transform your curriculum management.

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Client success stories

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University of Auckland

Established in 1883, the University of Auckland stands as New Zealand’s premier educational institution with over 40,000 students, nearly 10,000 of whom graduate annually. As the nation’s top-ranked university, Auckland is renowned globally for its groundbreaking research and outstanding teaching quality.

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University of Canterbury (UC)

Located in the heart of Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand, the University of Canterbury (UC), established in 1873, blends its rich history with a modern vision of tertiary education and inclusive research. With a diverse range of seven faculties, including Arts, Business, Education, Engineering, Health, Law, and Science, UC offers an environment that values diversity and fosters boundless opportunities for education and exploration. It’s recognized for its commitment to sustainability, ranking first in the 2022 THE Impact Rankings for Sustainable Development Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, and placing among the top 50 universities globally.

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TAFE NSW

TAFE NSW is Australia’s largest vocational education provider and one of the largest in the world, offering diverse training across 130+ campuses. With a commitment to excellence, TAFE NSW provides practical, industry-aligned courses, boasting 500,000 enrolments annually.

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Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) is a graduate research university dedicated to advancing AI as a global force for humanity.  It offers a variety of graduate programs in cutting-edge fields, including computer vision, machine learning, and natural language processing.

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National University of Singapore (NUS)

The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national research university based in Singapore. It is a leading global university, ranked as the 8th university in the world and the best-ranked university in APAC, according to QS World University Ranking 2024.

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Federation University

With a history spanning over 150 years, Federation University Australia is Victoria’s premier regional university, with campuses located in Ballarat, Berwick, Brisbane, Gippsland and Wimmera. From 2018-2022 Federation ranked first in Australia for first-generation student enrolments. In a first for Australia, the globally recognised cooperative education model will be embedded across all Federation programs from 2025.

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University of Maribor, Slovenia, EU

The University of Maribor is Slovenia’s second-largest university. With its nineteen member institutions, the university is turning into a central development institution attracting talented students from all over the world and providing a development context where excellence is at home at all levels.

UM is ranked among the best global universities and earned the highest score among Slovene universities on Times Higher Education World University Rankings

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Griffith University

Griffith University ranks in the top 2 percent of universities globally with 50,000 students spanning six campuses in South East Queensland, Australia.

Griffith University has been ranked 66th globally in the inaugural QS Sustainability Ranking 2023 including first in Queensland overall, and 6th in Australia for its efforts in sustainability.

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Charles Darwin University (CDU)

Charles Darwin University (CDU) is a dual-sector university with campuses located across the Northern Territory and in Sydney. The University also has centres in Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. Additionally, CDU provides training across a large number of sites across the Northern Territory and in remote Indigenous communities, making it one of Australia’s most diverse universities.

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Australian Catholic University (ACU)

Australian Catholic University (ACU) is ranked in the top two per cent of universities worldwide* and is first in Australia for graduate employment**. The university has six research institutes and four faculties – Education and Arts, Health Sciences, Law and Business, and Theology and Philosophy. It has eight Australian campuses and a campus in Rome, Italy.

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The University of Queensland

Ranked in the world’s top 50, The University of Queensland (UQ) is one of Australia’s leading research and teaching institutions. As a founding member of Group of Eight (Go8), a coalition of leading Australian universities, UQ is known for its excellence in creation, preservation, transfer and application of knowledge. Over 4500 staff deliver globally renowned learning experiences through a comprehensive suite of programs and courses.

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Australian National University (ANU)

The Australian National University (ANU) is ranked 29th in the world and 1st in Australia, according to QS World University Rankings (2020). ANU is a member of the Group of Eight (Go8), a coalition of leading Australian universities.

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