Objective
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First to set up core and elective units for a course. and
Adding prerequisite, co-requisite and disallowed units to a course outline, and
Adding substitute rules to a course outline.
A Course Outline course outline can contain all possible units that are permitted for inclusion in the course. Once a Course Outline has been created, Unit Enrolments can be created by the student or by administration staff.
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Key terms and concepts
The Course Outline outline page is intended to be completed by Administration Staff, adding all possible core, elective, prerequisite, co-requisite, and disallowed units, substitute rules and constraints for a particular course. The details included in the Course Outline are used as the basis for defining the Course Plan for a student. The Course Plan can be defined for or by a student, or by administration staff.
Course Units Colour Legend on Student’s course enrolment (Course plan)
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Colour | Meaning |
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Green | Student has previously completed this unit |
Blue | Student is currently enrolled in this unit |
Orange | Unit is not available because prerequisites have not been met |
White (with tick box) | Unit can be selected for enrolment |
White (without tick box) | Unit has been scheduled, student meets prerequisites, but the enrolment period has not yet opened. Note: Staff member needs to double check the configuration time period called ‘Unit_enrolment’ |
Grey | Unit is not scheduled for the next enrolment period |
Course plan for enrolment allows staff of various levels members to enrol students in to units or will allow students enrol themselves into units Course plan is specific to the coursewith ease.
To set up the Course plan / Constraints table rules the following information will be required:
The scope and structure of the course including the units required to complete the course
Units pre-requisites, co-requisites, core units, electives, substitute units, previous versions of units,
Accreditation changes,
Majors and Minors available within the Course structure
Planned unit schedules
Field Name | Brief Overview |
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Program Constraints ID | Internal System ID given to the course rule. Each constraint will have its own unique code |
Course ID | Course ID |
associated with the base course and student’s course enrolment | |
Unit ID | Internal |
System ID assigned to |
unit code | |
Constraint Unit Id | An unit code in display that is associated with the constraint type |
Unit Name | Mainly for the usability. |
So the staff members know which unit it is | |
Constraint Types | Core Unit, Elective Unit,Prerequisite Unit, Study Area (Minor), Major, Minor, Study Specialisation (Major), Program Prerequisites, Unit program |
prerequisites, Program Unit Not required, Application Unit, |
Co-requisite Unit, Disallowed Unit, Substitute Unit, Allow multiple schedule Units, Component Program, Competency Unit, Required Unit Count , Transfer Program *Please refer to the Standard Constraint Types table below for more information | |
Display Code | Display code indicates where |
the unit will appear in the grid. The letters A- |
Z are columns across |
, whereas numbers 1-25 are the rows down. |
Combining both letter and number then determines the unit displays in the exact grid position |
, such as A1, B2, C3 | |
Description | Text that |
appears in the front of the row to describe this section of the grid |
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, e.g |
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. Core Unit, Electives |
Setting up the logic of your course plan is highly subjective to each institution. Below is an example of a course plan(Include showing the display codes) looks like under a student’s course plan (course enrolment):
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Explanation:
There are two types of rules: one is to determine the visual display of a unit on the course outline screen which is the usage of display code. The other is to determine what a student is eligible to select or enrol into at any given point of time.
Refer to the above picture, both core and elective sections control the visual grouping. Some education providers might only have Core units throughout their course offering.
Standard Constraint Types
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Constraint type options | Description |
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Core Unit | Your institution defines the core units to study this course, often is compulsory to study within the major or program. |
Elective Unit | Your institution defines a list of Elective unit options as part of the major or program. |
Prerequisite Unit | Some units of study have a prerequisite. This is a requirement that needs to be completed before you are able to take the unit. |
Co-requisite Unit | Some units of study require you to undertake another specific unit of study at the same time. |
Major | Your institution defines what are the unit components to make up the structure of that Major |
Minor | Your institution defines what are the unit components to make up the structure of that Minor |
Disallowed Unit | Your institution defines a particular unit: if a student has already completed an unit, then they will not be allowed to enrol into the other one |
Substitute Unit | Your institution defines a substitute unit to replace a historical unit |
Required Unit | A compulsory choice that a user must select when enrolling via the course plan |
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To add another unit, click on the Add Constraint button to clear the details previously entered. Add all of the units before adding first, prior to set up any Pre-requites, Co-requisites rules, etc as it will make the task process easier to completefollow. |
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To add more constraints to the Rules Course plan edit table, click on the add constraint button to clear the details previously entered. |
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Please note that if you would like to have different descriptive texts for the rules, you have to make sure that your rules have different rows. The descriptive texts are course rule specific and different courses with the same units could have different descriptive label.
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