The functions and features most commonly offered by curriculum and catalog platforms (CourseLeaf CIM/CAT, Kuali Curriculum, Coursedog Curriculum, Modern Campus Acalog and Watermark SmartCatalog), and the HERM business capability each one supports. The curriculum system decides what the institution offers and what students must complete: the course and program inventory, proposals and faculty governance, requirements and pathways, the published catalog, and learning outcomes and accreditation evidence. The SIS stays the system of record for the live course file, registration and degree audit; section scheduling belongs to instructional planning. See also the SIS and LMS functions & features.
Shows which parts of the institution the curriculum system supports, where it overlaps other systems, and where it stops.
A function's main HERM home vs others it touches. Features narrow to one capability.
20 HERM capabilities touched, centred on curriculum design, planning, production and accreditation.
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How this was compiled: three AI assistants (Claude, Perplexity and Grok) were each asked to identify the core functions and features of the major higher education curriculum and catalog platforms. Their lists were reconciled into this single set. Treat it as a starting point, not a vendor-verified specification.
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The full hierarchy: areas, functional areas, functions and features, each with its HERM mapping and definition. Select any HERM capability or feature to see its full definition.
Curriculum management is rarely one system. Here the same functions and features are mapped to the applications a fictional Example State University actually runs: a vendor core, add-on modules, third-party products, homegrown tools and spreadsheets. Each link records how well the application covers the feature and its role. HERM coverage is then calculated from those links, not mapped by hand.
Also see this ecosystem as a capability × application matrix or a HERM-to-application flow.
Inner rings: area and functional area. Outer ring: one slice per feature, split into bands when more than one application provides it. Marks outside the ring flag gaps (red) and competing systems of record (violet).
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The executive view. Each bar is the capability’s features, coloured by the best coverage any application gives them. Select a capability for its HERM definition, or an application to see its footprint.
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