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After adding all the units and formatting the contents of your Course Outline, some units would require another unit for it to exist or become an allowable unit option for a student to enrol. Establishing the relationship between units can be done by adding constraints. This Knowledge Article will guide you on how to add a prerequisite, corequisite, disallowed, substitute, and required units to your course plan.

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The instructions below assume that all units or subjects that define a Course are already added

to the system. If this is not the case, start by adding all the units first. You can refer to this page:

Adding Core and Elective Units for the instructions.

It might be useful to have a test student within the system who can be enrolled

in the new course to visualise the course plan as it is built.

Workflow

On the Course Outline page, click the ADD CONSTRAINT button. NOTE: You have the option to select the COPY SELECTED CONSTRAINTS button, if you have other existing courses with the same constraints that you want to apply to this new course. Image Modified Status colour Green title 4 Locate the Unit that the constraint is tied to and click the Add As Unit icon on the right-hand side (in the example screenshot below, unit BEM3002 is selected). Image Modified Status colour Green title 5 Locate the constraining unit (Prerequisite, Corequisite, Disallowed, and Substitute) and click the Add As Constraint icon on the right-hand side (in the example below, BEM1005 is selected since this will serve as a prerequisite unit to BEM3002). Image Modified Refer to the following definition of all the possible constraints you can add.

Contraint Type INFO Brief Description PREREQUISITES – Some units of study have a prerequisite. This is a requirement that must be completed before you are able to take the unit. COREQUISITES – Some units of study require you to undertake another specific unit of study at the same time. DISALLOWED – Your institution defines that if a student has already completed a unit, they will not be allowed to enrol into this unit SUBSTITUTE – Your institution defines a substitute unit to replace a historical unit Status colour Green title 6 After selecting the unit and its constraining unit, go to the EDIT COURSE OUTLINE DETAILS Form section. Note the Unit Id and the Constraint Unit Id fields, both are pre-filled already based on the selections that you made (from steps 4-5). Select the Constraint Type (Prerequisite Unit, Corequisite Unit, Disallowed Unit, and Substitute Unit)as required. Status colour Green title 7 Click the SAVE OUTLINE CONSTRAINT button. Image Modified Status colour Green title 8 The newly added constraint will be shown in your COURSE OUTLINE table (in the sample screenshot below, BEM3002 has now a Constraint Unit Id(Prerequisite) of BEM1005. Image Modified Info INFO: After saving the newly added constraint, you can check the view in the Student Course Plan (Student > Course Enrolment > Course Plan) page if the addition was successful. In the sample screenshot below, BEM3002 is now yellow coded as disallowed by prerequisite. Image Modified NOTE: To add more constraints, click the ADD CONSTRAINT button again to clear the details previously entered. Start from the Step Status colour Green title 3 instruction above to add another constraint. Alternatively, watch the demo clip below on how to add Pre-Requisite and Co-Requisite units. CourseOutlineAddConstraints.mp4 back to top

Steps Status colour Green title 1 to Status colour Green title 3 in the Workflow above. Status colour Green title 2 After clicking the ADD CONSTRAINT button, locate the Unit that you want to set as a required unit (in the example screenshot below, unit BEM2005 is selected), and select the Edit Constraint button on the right side of the selected unit. Image Modified Status colour Green title 3 Scroll down and go to the EDIT COURSE OUTLINE DETAILS Form section. Set the Constraint Type field as Required Unit. Status colour Green title 4 Click the SAVE OUTLINE CONSTRAINT button. Image Modified back to top

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Adding Major or Minor Constraint Type NOTE: Refer to the Major and Minor Constraint Types page for the details on how you can implement the Major and Minor Constraint Type in your Course. This will make the Unit only allowable to be enrolled in when the Student is enrolled on the specified Major or Minor pathway. Status colour Green title 1 Follow the instructions from Steps Status colour Green title 1 to Status colour Green title 3 in the Workflow above. Status colour Green title 2 After clicking the ADD CONSTRAINT button, locate the Unit that you want to set as a major or minor unit (in the example screenshot below, unit BAComSci is selected), and select the Add as Unit button on the right side of the selected unit. Image Added Status colour Green title 3 Scroll down and go to the EDIT COURSE OUTLINE DETAILS section. Set the Constraint Type field as Major or Minor. Status colour Green title 4 In the Course Major Study field, select the Major or Minor Code Item accordingly. Status colour Green title 5 Click the SAVE OUTLINE CONSTRAINT button. Image Added back to top

Video Tutorial

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