Short Text: Multiple CTE Departments have been entered for one section.
Long Text: Multiple CTE Departments have been entered for one section. The CTE department typically includes various sub-disciplines or pathways, each focusing on a specific area of career and technical education. Select a single CTE department for the section.
How to Fix: This warning displays when WISEdata detects that one section of a course is listed under a different CTE Department than the other sections of that course.
There are numerous CTE Departments, also called Program Area Types, and each Course must fall under one. To find applicable CTE departments for a given school year, refer to the Courses download file for that school year, available on DPI's Courses webpage.
There are thousands of courses. Not all courses are CTE courses. Additionally, some courses have a CTE version and a non-CTE version. Do not list a CTE department for a non-CTE course.
Courses are classes taught within schools and by appropriately licensed teachers. Each course may be taught one or more times a day. When a course is taught multiple times a day, then it is a course with multiple sections.
For example, a high school might offer the course “Introduction to STEM.” This course is offered to 9th and 10th graders. In this high school, there are eight periods a day, and the “Introduction to STEM” course is offered during hours 1 and 3 by Mrs. Jones and offered hours 5 and 7 by Mr. Smith. Therefore, “Introduction to STEM” is a course with four sections
To repair the warning:
- Locate the course in question within your SIS.
- Locate all of the sections for the course.
- Determine which CTE Department is associated with each section of the course.
- Each section should be associated with only one CTE Department.
- Make corrections as needed so that each section is associated with one CTE Department.
Example: District Deb receives Error 7486 and opens the carrot within the error to see which course is erroring. It is a CTE Computer Science course. She logs into her student information system (SIS) and navigates the screens until she finds the course with multiple CTE Departments reporting in a section.
District Deb sees that one section of the course is reporting Business and Information Technology Education AND Technology and Engineering Education. Per the courses download, either of the CTE Department can teach this course, however, the Business Department is teaching the course for the reporting school year.
District Deb determines that this is a mistake in data entry and corrects the one section. Once the section is corrected, District Deb may need to resync the course to properly update data that has already been sent to DPI. The DPI CTE Team reviewed the courses download to associate CTE courses to each of the 6 CTE Departments and academic content standards.
Technical Details:
Business Rule Logic: Throw to all Public schools on the /Section endpoint, if there is more than 1 CTE Department on one Section.
Additional Comments
For more information, see the CTE Department/Program Area Type data element page
For More information, see the Courses data element page, or view the Course list within WISEdata Portal, within the Resources menu.
For more information, see the CTE Data Resources webpage and click the link to the “CTE and Career Education Data WISE Guide.”
04/26/2024; updated 12/2/2025