Overview

A Course Plan if not properly organised, and contents are not clearly conveyed can be a bit confusing to a student. The Course Outline in Paradigm allows you to edit and organise the contents depending on your business or institution’s preference. This Knowledge Base article will guide you on how to edit the column headings, labels, add new tables, and customise grid contents.

Workflows

Choose from Workflows 1-4 below depending on what section of the Course Plan view you want to edit:

Edit Course Plan Table Headers

The Student Course Plan page header labels are designed to be in table format with the following Header Labels: Course Name, Stage 1-4. The Stage 1-4 headings are designed so the students do not get confused in selecting the units they want and associate them with the academic terms. Their attention will be focused instead on the color-coded units where they can see the statuses of their unit enrolments: previously completed, currently enrolled, allowed to enrol, disallowed by prerequisite, and the units not scheduled.

However, if you would like to customise the column headings following your business or institution’s naming convention, you can do so by following the instructions below:

1 Refer to the instructions on this link on how to edit form labels by searching: Edit Form Labels | b. Editing Form Labels by Searching.

2 In the Step 4 instruction, enter “student_course_plan_heading” in the Label ID field.

3 Follow the rest of the instructions on that link.

Other table column headers that you can edit are the following: Table 2 and Table 3, see sample screenshot below.

a For Table 2, the Label ID that you need to search to edit this label is “student_course_plan_tableY”; and

B For Table 3, enter “student_course_plan_tableZ”.

Summary:

Editable Column Headers or Labels	(System > Edit Labels) Label ID

Editable Column Headers or Labels	(System > Edit Labels) Label ID
Stage 1, Stage 2…etc Column Labels	“student_course_plan_heading”
Table 2	“student_course_plan_tableY”
Table 3	“student_course_plan_tableZ”

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Edit Course Plan First Column Row Labels

Column Labels on the first column of the Student Course Plan view can be customised to make it more organised and easy to read by grouping the units into constraints or adding a new table for each constraint type as necessary.

Editing the Labels under the Course Name Column Header

The labels on this column are coming from the Description field when adding a new unit or constraint to the course outline. Note the example on the screenshot below:

INFO:

In the screenshot above, note that whatever text or information you enter in the Description field in adding another unit or constraint will appear on the first column with the Course Name heading on the Student Course Plan page. Leaving this field blank will make that column field blank.

NOTE:

When adding another unit (constraint) to another column (e.g. Stage 2, Stage 3….), if you enter a value on the Description field on them, the last column where the unit (constraint) added in that row will override the previous ones in the row. In the above screenshot, for the BEM3005 course under the Stage 4 first row column, its Description value if set will override BEM1001, BEM1008, and BEM2005. It is highly recommended that the Description field is set on the first column unit (constraint) added for each row (given that all the other units (constraints) on that same row have the same description)

1 You can edit the labels under this column by clicking the EDIT button on the existing units (constraints);

2 Go to the EDIT COURSE OUTLINE DETAILS Form section down the page and edit the Description field.

3 Click the SAVE OUTLINE CONSTRAINT button to save the changes and check under the Student Course Plan page to see if the change is successful.

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Adding another Table to Group Units or Constraints

You also have the option to add another table below the existing table that you are currently seeing under the Student Course Plan page. An example would be displaying all the Core Units on the table at the top and adding another table below for all your Electives.

INFO:

In the sample screenshot above, all the core units are grouped and displayed at the top while the electives are on another table at the bottom. You can also edit the table column header by checking the instructions above under the Header Label section.

Note the values of the Display Code when adding another table, for Table 2, the Display Code starts with the letter Z plus the column code (e.g. A, B, etc.) and the row number, e.g. ZA1, ZB1, etc.

For Table 3, it starts with the letter Y plus the column code (e.g. A, B, etc.) and the row number, e.g. YA1, YB1, etc.

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Customising Grid Content

The contents inside each grid are highly customisable, depending on your business or institution’s preference. All three information inside each grid: Unit Title, Credit Point Value, and the Grade Outcome are form fields that can be set as hidden or visible against a specific group or permission levels that you want this information to be seen.

How to Show or Hide the Unit Title, Credit Point Value, and Grade Outcome

1 Refer to the instructions on how to edit form fields on this link: Edit Form Fields | B. Using the System menu.

2 In the FORM FIELD LIST Form section, enter or search for the following:

Unit Title	“student_course_plan_unitTitle”
Credit Point Value	“student_course_plan_creditPoints”
Grade Outcome	“student_course_plan_gradeDescription”

3 Follow the rest of the instructions on that link, depending on how you want the grid content to be seen.

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Paradigm Knowledge Base

3. Arranging Content on the Course Plan

Overview

Workflows

Edit Course Plan Table Headers

Edit Course Plan First Column Row Labels

Editing the Labels under the Course Name Column Header

Adding another Table to Group Units or Constraints

Customising Grid Content

How to Show or Hide the Unit Title, Credit Point Value, and Grade Outcome