Screen Description
The Edit Curriculum screen provides interface for editing an existing curriculum.
Details
Curriculum Details
- Abbreviation
- Name
- Academic Area
- Academic area for which the
curriculum is set up (each curriculum can only have one academic area)
- Major(s)
- The major (or more majors) within
the selected academic area for which the curriculum is set up
- Department
- The department whose curriculum
managers should be able to edit the curriculum
Curriculum Classifications
The curriculum classifications show numbers of
students in particular semesters of study, including projected numbers
or last-like enrollment.
- Name
- Name of the academic classification, i.e.,
of the semester in which the students will be
- Examples: 01 - students in their first
semester at school, GR - graduate students, ...
- The default is the abbreviation of the academic
classification
- Classification
- Last-Like Enrollment
- Number of students from given majors who
were enrolled in the courses of this curriculum in the last-like
semester
- Projected by Rule
- Requested Enrollment
- Expected number of students in the given
classification who will follow this curriculum
- Current Enrollment
- Number of students of this curriculum
(i.e., who have the majors from this curriculum) currently enrolled in
the courses of this curriculum
Course Projections
- Group
- The user can define groups of courses that have students in
common (such as "1st semester mandatory courses", etc.) or that do not
have students in common (such as optional courses for 2nd semester
students, out of which each student selects only one course)
- To create a new group
- Click on the lines with the courses that should be included in
the group (possibly in the Group column, not on another group's name)
- Click on the column header ("Group")
- In the menu that opens, click on "New Group"
- In the small screen that opens, enter the Name (an alphabet
letter is suggested as default) and select the Type
- "No conflict (different students)" - for courses that can
overlap in time because they do not have students in common
- "Conflict (same students)" - for courses that have students in
common and therefore should not overlap in time
- Click on the Assign button to assign the group to the courses
- To add a course to an existing group
- Click on the course (possibly in the Group column, not on the
name of another group) - the course will become highlighted in blue
- Click on the column header ("Group")
- In the menu that opens, click on the name of the group you need; now
the course should become a part of the group
- To remove a course from a group
- Click on the course that should not be included in the group
(not on the group icon); the course will become highlighted in blue
- Click on the column header ("Group")
- In the menu that opens, click on the group that should not include
the course any more; the group will be removed from the course
- To delete a group
- Click on the group icon in front of any of the courses in the
group
- In the small screen that opens, click on the Delete button
- To sort by group
- Click on the "Group" column header
- In the menu that opens, click on "Sort by Group"
- Course
- Abbreviations of all the courses in the curriculum
- Any courses from any subject area can be included in the curriculum
(independent of the Academic Area selected for the curriculum)
- The magnifying glass icon takes the user to the Course
Finder screen which either provides information about the course
listed on that line, or, when used for an "empty" course, helps the user
find a course by its abbreviation or its long name
- After clicking on the column header "Course", the following options
appear in a menu
- Select All Courses
- All courses will be selected/highlighted
- Remove Selected Courses
- Remove selected courses from the curriculum
- If a course is removed and then added again, all enrollment request
numbers have to be entered again
- Displayed only when some courses are selected
- Clear Selection
- Unselect selected courses
- Displayed only when some courses are selected
- Show Percentages
- Display percentages of the Requested Enrollment number instead
of numbers of students
- Note: The requested enrollments for each of the courses is stored as
percentage of the Requested Enrollment set in the Curriculum
Classification section of this screen; when the Requested Enrollment
number is changed, the number for each course changes too to reflect the
increased/decreased number of students in the curriculum
- It is not possible to request more than 100% enrollment for a course
- if a number higher than 100% is entered, it will automatically be
changed to 100%
- Displayed only when the table shows numbers
- Show Numbers
- Switch back from percentages to numbers
- Displayed only when the table shows percentages
- Show Last-Like Enrollment
- Show numbers of students from above majors who took the course
during the last-like semester
- Show Projection by Rule
- Show estimated numbers of students derived from projections for
majors
- Show Current Enrollment
- Display the number of students of this curriculum who are
enrolled in the course
- Show Empty Courses
- Display courses with zero students
- Hide Empty Courses
- Do not display courses with zero students
- Clear Requested Enrollments (All Classifications)
- Clear all the requested enrollments numbers for all courses in
the Course Projections table
- The Requested Enrollment line in Curriculum Classifications will
remain unchanged
- Copy Last-Like → Requested (All
Classifications)
- Use the numbers of last-like students
for requested enrollment
- Displayed only if Last-Like column is
shown
- Copy Projection → Requested (All Classifications)
- Use
the projected numbers of students for requested enrollment
- Displayed
only if Projection by Rule column is shown
- Copy Current → Requested (All Classifications)
- Use
the numbers of currently enrolled students for requested
enrollment
- Displayed only if Current Enrollment column is shown
- Sort by Course
- Sort the Course Projections table by the course abbreviation
(alphabetic order)
- Academic Classification
- For each academic classification, the requested enrollment
number can be entered for each course
- Note: There are two ways of entering the requested enrollment
- Number of students (cannot exceed the number from the Requested
Enrollment line for the given classification in the Curriculum
Classification section of this screen)
- Percentage of the total requested enrollment for the given
classification (that is, percentage of the number from the Requested
Enrollment line for the given classification in the
Curriculum Classification section of this screen) - in this case, the
"%" sign has to be a part of the entered percentage (example: "25%")
- An academic classification is displayed in the table only if there
is a requested enrollment number in the appropriate column in the
Curriculum Classification section of this screen
- After clicking on a header of a column related to an academic
classification, a menu appears; the first options apply to the whole
table and are described above (in the Course header section); the
remaining options, applying to a particular column, are as follows
- Clear Requested Enrollments
- Clear requested enrollments for this academic classification
- Copy Last-Like → Requested
- Use the numbers of last-like students for requested enrollment
- Displayed only if Last-Like column is shown
- Copy Projection → Requested
- Use the projected numbers of students for requested enrollment
- Displayed only if Projection by Rule column is shown
- Copy Current → Requested
- Use the numbers of currently enrolled students for requested
enrollment
- Displayed only if Current Enrollment column is shown
- Sort
by ...
- Sort the table by this column, numbers decreasing
- Comparison table on mouse roll-over
- When one or more courses are selected in the Course Projections table and Current, Last-Like, or Projected numbers of students are displayed, a comparison table appears when the mouse rolls over a course; the table provides information about students (current, last-like, or projected) that the courses have in common
- The table compares the course on which the mouse is placed with the other courses that have been previously selected (and are highlighted in blue)
Operations
- Save (Alt+S)
- Previous (Alt+P)
- Save changes and go to the Edit Curriculum screen for the previous curriculum
- Next (Alt+N)
- Save changes and go to the Edit Curriculum screen for the next curriculum
- Back (Alt+B)
Notes
Shortcuts for navigation through the Course Projections table
- Windows (Firefox)
- Moving a course up or down the list of courses
- Click on any editable field of a line and press "CTRL+↑" to move
the course up the list of courses
- Click on any editable field of a line and press "CTRL+↓" to move the
course down the list of courses
- Jumping through the editable fields in the table
- Alt+↑ - move one editable field up
- Alt+↓ - move one editable field down
- Alt+→ - move one editable field to the right
- Alt+← - move one editable field to the left
- Mac (Chrome, Firefox)
- Moving a course up or down
the list of courses
- Click on any editable field of a line and press "control+↑"
to move the
course up the list of courses
- Click on any editable field of a line and press "control+↓" to
move the
course down the list of courses
- Jumping through
the editable fields in the table (it is also possible to use the
"command" button instead of "alt")
- alt+↑ - move one
editable field up
- alt+↓ - move one editable field down
- alt+→
- move one editable field to the right
- alt+← - move one
editable field to the left
Exiting pop-up windows
To exit a pop-up window (such as "Edit group"), just click on any place in the previous screen or press Esc
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