How to Record CSL Hours

Gateway Navigation

  1. Login to the SFSU Gateway with your SFSU ID and password
  2. Select Class Services
  3. Select Access Faculty Center button
  4. Within your Faculty Center, select the Enter Service Learning (SL) Hours tab

View SL Courses and Enter Completed Hours

When directed to the Enter Service Learning Hours tab, your course sections that are “attributed” as SL will populate.*

  • To view additional SL courses, select the arrows
  • The roster of your enrolled students in your SL course section will appear, and you can then enter the number of completed SL hours in the SL Hours column.

Note: Only course sections that were “attributed” as service learning by departments/Colleges via the Online Schedule Building (OSB) by semester, will appear. 

For questions and/or information, please contact ICCE at icce@sfsu.edu

Save/Record Hours

Once hours are entered into SL Hours column, scroll down to the bottom of the page, click on the Save button and your students’ SL hours will be recorded.

Important Notes

*Faculty: Only course sections that were “attributed” as service learning by departments/colleges via the Online Schedule Building (OSB) by semester, will appear. Please contact your department AOC to ensure that your course section has been attributed every semester.

Course instructors will not be able to input CSL hours past the grading period at the end of each semester in Campus Solutions.

Per Academic Senate Policy, the minimum amount of CSL hours a student must have completed in order to have these hours on their official transcript is 20 hours. However, there is no maximum cap on the hours.

ICCE does not assign grades, track student hours, or submit student service hours to the course instructor. However, ICCE does gather data on the following: CSL course designation and student CSL hours that course instructors submit into their Faculty SFSU Gateway. 

The login hours/tracking system within SF State ULink offers this resource to SL students and their course instructors. To use this tracking option, course instructors must log-in ULink to view the student hours that were approved by the community site supervisor.

Course Designation/CEL Initiative

In alignment with Graduation Initiative 2025, the Chancellor’s Office charged the CSU Center for Community Engagement (COCCE) to lead an effort to improve data collection and identify the spectrum of community-engaged learning courses taking place across the CSU. As a result, the Chancellor's Office has instituted two common systemwide “attributes” (CCEL and CSL) for community-engaged learning courses.

Attribute 1: Service Learning (CSL)

Service Learning (CSL) is a specific type of community-engaged learning in which substantive community engagement and the related community partnerships are critical components of course learning, with equal focus on community impact and student learning related to social justice or responsibility. Service-learning courses may also be labeled with a variety of titles.

Attribute 2: Curricular Community Engaged Learning (CCEL)

Curricular Community Engaged Learning (CCEL) refers to courses in any discipline that have some type of community-engaged experiences and activities built around reciprocal partnerships to benefit the common good and enhance student learning.

How to Propose a CSL/CCEL Designated Course

When navigating through the procedure for a new course proposal submission, faculty can request to obtain a CCEL or CSL course designation within the university's Curriculum Inventory Management (CIM) system. 

 

[Note: Once a course is designated in CIM, it will indicate in the SFSU Bulletin as, “CCEL or CSL may be available.” CCEL or CSL designation is at the course section level every semester and is optional for faculty to teach.]

How to Revise an Existing Course (Not Previously Designated CSL/CCEL)

When navigating through the procedure for the designation of an existing course submission, faculty can request to obtain a CCEL or CSLI course designation within the university's Curriculum Inventory Management (CIM) system.

 

[Note: Once a course is designated in CIM, it will indicate in the SFSU Bulletin as, “CCEL or CSLI may be available.” CCEL or CSLI designation is at the course section level every semester and is optional for faculty to teach.]

See Where Your Course Falls in the CEL Spectrum

Use the CSU Community Engaged Learning Tool (CELT) Survey.

Mannual Tracking of Hours

If your course instructor prefers and/or provides you the option to track hours manually and have your site supervisor verify and confirm, we have drafted an excel template (formatted to print on one page and hours are formulated to total). 

 

Note: Students do not need to submit a copy of this manual timesheet to ICCE.