Overview

Coding Paradigm Sessions can become complicated if you want to enforce predefined session enrolment combinations to a scheduled unit. Paradigm supports this particular business requirement, however, we would strongly advise to let us know first if ever you will decide to use the Session Group and Session Class in adding Paradigm Session to your scheduled units as discussed on this knowledge article.

NOTE

It is up to each provider or institution to allocate an appropriate ID when populating the Session Class or Session Group fields.

BE ADVISED

Carefully consider the following definitions to determine if your institution requires the use of the session group and class fields. If these features are not required then it is appropriate to leave the field(s) blank.

Session Class (Session Sequence ID)

WARNING

Paradigm makes an important assumption that ALL sessions where the Session Class IS NOT SET are compulsory enrolments.

The Session Class is used to limit what a user may select when enrolling into sessions. The restrictions work in two layers:

Selecting a Session Class will also select all other sessions that share the same Session Class value.
When a Session Group AND a Session Class are both set, then the user must select one and only one session, from each group.

The use of Session Class simplifies the process of selecting a suitable, non-clashing set of sessions. It is especially useful when there is a need to define a pairing or set of sessions consisting of multiple Session Groups where you want to enforce predefined session enrolment combinations.

We recommend starting the Session Class value with the digit 1, increment it by 1 for each new Session Class.

Session Group

NOTE

When the Session Class IS SET but the Session Group is BLANK, then Paradigm will assume that there is an implicit Session Group value of 1.

The Session Group is used when there are multiple session types or session sets associated to the same scheduled unit. Assigning a Session Group will visually group the sessions when viewed from within Paradigm. When used together with Session Class it is possible to prevent users from enrolling into more than one session from each defined Session Group.

One way of grouping sessions is by session type. Examples of common session group types include: Lecture, Tutorial, Workshop, Seminar, etc. It is also possible to use Session Group to group a set of sessions with different types and in which you would only allow a student to select one and only one session from each set.

We recommend starting the Session Group value with the digit 1, increment it by 1 for each new Session Group.

Refer to our Session Group and Session Class scenarios below and see how it could apply to your business or institution’s requirements: