2025-2026 edition of Guide now available
The 2025-2026 edition of the Guide – the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s comprehensive course catalog – has been published and is now available!
The 2025-2026 edition of the Guide – the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s comprehensive course catalog – has been published and is now available!
The 2024-2025 edition of the Guide – the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s comprehensive course catalog – has been published and is now available!
In February 2023, members from the Office of the Registrar’s Degree Audit and Academic Programs (DAAP) team attended the Leepfrog User Community Conference. The conference focused on building technical skills within CourseLeaf, the curricular management software that we refer to as Lumen on campus, as well as learning new ways to leverage CourseLeaf for student …
June marked the official publication of the 2023-2024 edition of Guide. This edition is the culmination of the work that departmental and school/college representatives, academic planners, faculty, and governance bodies have been working toward all year. Over 800 Lumen Programs and Structures updates were processed and implemented in this catalog cycle. June marked the official …
In 2016 UW–Madison entered a partnership with Leepfrog to produce an enhanced version of our catalogs – Guide. Branded as the “single source of truth,” Guide serves as the repository for undergraduate, graduate, and nondegree curricular information. Prior to using Leepfrog as UW–Madison’s catalog publication tool, the graduate and undergraduate catalogs were published every two …
In mid-November, the Office of the Registrar (RO) published a new Tableau workbook that provides valuable information about the editing status and approval workflow for the 1,500+ Guide pages that are edited, reviewed and published annually. The workbook, which includes both a filterable data table and a data exporter, was authored by Jennifer Donahoe (Data …
Utilizing shared knowledge, creativity, and innovation to examine unique circumstances is one of the core values of the Office of the Registrar. This value continues to be met in many ways, and was evident in a recent example where Associate Registrar for Academic Services Will Lipske participated in discussions with Youngstown State University (YSU) about …
This summer the Curricular and Academic Management Services team worked with CourseLeaf to make updates and enhancements to software. CourseLeaf is the academic catalog software that is used to gather information about courses. UW–Madison refers to the faculty-facing interface for the software as Lumen. Lumen is the gateway for faculty, curricular representatives, and governance bodies …
On Monday, June 1st the 2020-2021 edition of Guide was published. This edition is the culmination of the work of departmental and school/college representatives, academic planners, faculty, and governance bodies. The Curricular and Academic Management Services (CAMS) team within the RO processed and implemented over 700 Lumen Programs and Structures updates in this catalog cycle. …