Overview
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.
Workflow
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.
Adding Prerequisites, Corequisites, Disallowed, and Substitute
NOTE:
The instructions below assume that the Course record that you want to add the constraints to has been created already. If the course record is not currently loaded, start with the STEP 1 instructions, else proceed to STEP 2.
STEP 1 Load the Course to be edited
1 Refer to the instructions on this link on how to load a course record: https://silverband.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PKB/pages/985094/Courses+-+Search+Add+and+Edit#01.-How-to-search-for-a-Course-Record.
STEP 2 Add the constraints (Prerequisites, Corequisites, Disallowed, and Substitute).
1, 2 With the Course record loaded in the system, choose Courses > Outline menus on the side.
3 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.
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).
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).
Refer to the following definition of all the possible constraints you can add.
Contraint Type | 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 |
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.
7 Click the SAVE OUTLINE CONSTRAINT button.
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.
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.
NOTE:
To add more constraints, click the ADD CONSTRAINT button again to clear the details previously entered. Start from the Step 3 instruction above to add another constraint.
Alternatively, watch the demo clip below on how to add Pre-Requisite and Co-Requisite units.
Adding Required Constraint
This is compulsory that the unit must be selected when enrolling via the course plan.
1 Follow the instructions from Steps 1 to 3 in the Workflow above.
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.
3 Scroll down and go to the EDIT COURSE OUTLINE DETAILS Form section. Set the Constraint Type field as Required Unit.
4 Click the SAVE OUTLINE CONSTRAINT button.
Video Tutorial
Introduction to Course Plan | 1. Course Outline Basics | 2. Adding Core and Elective Units | 3. Arranging Content on the Course Plan | 4. Adding Constraints