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Catalogist
A free WordPress catalog for college programs and courses.
Catalogist is a free WordPress plugin for community and technical colleges: semester-by-semester program maps with pathways, course pages with linked prerequisites, searchable program and course lists, and spreadsheet import.
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I teach in a computer programming program at a technical college, and every year I watch the same thing happen: students and parents trying to figure out which courses a program requires, in what order, and what they’ll be able to do afterward, using PDFs and web pages that rarely agree with each other.
So I built Catalogist, a free WordPress plugin that turns a college’s website into a real program and course catalog. You enter each course and program once, and every page stays in sync. Change a course’s credits, and every program map that includes it updates.
What it does:
• Semester-by-semester program maps, with a separate map for each credential (an associate degree and a certificate, say)
• Choice slots for electives, including lecture and lab pairs
• Pathways students can switch between, with credit totals that follow
• Course pages with linked prerequisites
• Searchable, filterable Program and Course Finders
• Spreadsheet import (CSV or Excel), so you start from the course list you already have
It works with any WordPress theme, it’s built to be keyboard- and screen-reader-friendly, and it’s open source under the GPL. Your data stays in your own WordPress site.
If you’d like to try it, there’s a sample catalog for a fictional college you can import and click around in, plus a step-by-step guide on the website.
I’d love feedback, especially from anyone who works on a college website: what’s the most painful part of keeping your program pages up to date? That’s what I want to tackle next.
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About Catalogist on Product Hunt
“A free WordPress catalog for college programs and courses.”
Catalogist was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #156 on the daily leaderboard. Catalogist is a free WordPress plugin for community and technical colleges: semester-by-semester program maps with pathways, course pages with linked prerequisites, searchable program and course lists, and spreadsheet import.
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