Inactive Course Review

This message is being sent to all academic departmental administrators (ADAs). Please disregard if you are listed as an ADA but don't serve in a role that works with inactive courses. If you get this message in error, please forward it to the appropriate individual within your unit.

Inactive course forms will be created on Wednesday, Sept. 10 for courses not taught since the first semester of the 2022–23 academic year (i.e., no students enrolled at the end of any semester or summer session). You will receive an email on this day if your department has inactive courses to review. You will need to review these courses by Tuesday, Sept. 30 to mark them as "keep" or "drop," with drops becoming effective fall 2026.

Fall 2025 Inactive Course Review Schedule

ADA Review Period in MAUI

During the review period, any user may view, comment on, or update the forms in MAUI. Forms will not be active in Universal Workflow during this period, allowing multiple users to edit the forms before they are routed to the academic workflow DDEOs. Users cannot submit them until the approval period.

DDEO Approval in Universal Workflow

On Wednesday, Oct. 1 all forms will automatically route to the workflow inboxes of deans, directors, or departmental executive officers who serve as academic workflow DDEOs. The forms will reflect edits made to them in MAUI prior to this automatic routing. This person must take action on each form to advance it in workflow, confirming the "keep" or "drop" recommendation for each course.

Please coordinate the approval process within your unit to prevent duplication of effort and/or erroneous dropping of courses. Once a form automatically routes in workflow, it cannot be revised by ADAs.

Additional Information

Please refer to the MAUI Help Inactive Course Review webpage for more information and step-by-step instructions. Contact reg-course-approval@uiowa.edu if you have any questions.