Approve Courses and Sections

All courses and sections must be reviewed and approved individually. The recommended best practice is to review and approve the course first, then its sections.

1. Choose Professional Learning from the main menu.

2. Click Approvals, then My Pending Approvals.

   Note: The items displayed in My Pending Approvals depend on your role:

   • Standard Approvers see only pending items from the office(s) they are explicitly assigned to.

   • Office SuperUsers see pending items from all offices, regardless of explicit office assignment. See Office SuperUser Approvals below.

3. Click on a course or section name to review it.

4. When finished with your review, click Needs Revision or Approved.

5. Enter Comments for the course creator as needed.

6. Click Submit.

To streamline the course approval process, users will receive email notifications with the specific reason for denial. Earlier, users had to log back in to the system to understand why a course was rejected, often prompting support inquiries.

Office SuperUser Approvals

If you are an Office SuperUser (also referred to as a PD SuperUser), you have elevated approval privileges that allow you to manage course and section approvals across your entire organization without needing to be manually assigned to each office.

What's different for Office SuperUsers:

• Cross-office visibility — Your My Pending Approvals queue displays pending items from all offices in your organization, not just the offices you are explicitly assigned to.

• Full workflow access — You can approve every step of a multi-step approval workflow for any course or section, regardless of which office it belongs to.

• No manual assignment needed — Previously, SuperUsers had to be added to every individual office to approve all steps. This is no longer required.

To approve a course or section as an Office SuperUser:

1. Choose Professional Learning from the main menu.

2. Click Approvals, then My Pending Approvals.
   Your queue will display pending items from all offices across your organization.

3. (Optional) Use the Office filter dropdown to narrow results to a specific office.

4. Click on a course or section name to review it.

5. When finished with your review, click Needs Revision or Approved.

6. Enter Comments as needed.

7. Click Submit.