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Curriculum design & approval template

How a new course moves from proposal to being offered — used by academic departments and edtech curriculum tools. This flowchart template contains 14 labelled steps, 2 decision points, branches such as “No”, “Yes”.

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Steps in this flowchart

  • Need identified
  • Learning outcomes drafted
  • Market & employer consultation
  • Module structure & assessment plan
  • Department review
  • Approved?
  • External examiner review
  • Curriculum committee
  • Resource & staffing plan
  • Catalog entry published
  • Materials & LMS course built
  • First delivery
  • Student evaluation
  • Annual review

How to use this flowchart template

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Mermaid source

The whole template is the text below. Paste it into FlowDiagram, keep it in Git next to the code it describes, or hand it to an AI assistant to extend.

flowchart LR
  A((Need identified)) --> B[Learning outcomes drafted]
  B --> C[Market & employer consultation]
  C --> D[Module structure & assessment plan]
  D --> E[Department review]
  E --> F{Approved?}
  F -->|No| D
  F -->|Yes| G[External examiner review]
  G --> H[Curriculum committee]
  H --> I{Approved?}
  I -->|No| D
  I -->|Yes| J[Resource & staffing plan]
  J --> K[Catalog entry published]
  K --> L[Materials & LMS course built]
  L --> M[First delivery]
  M --> N[Student evaluation]
  N --> O((Annual review))

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