Courses - Pre-Requisites Tab

This Tab is displayed on the bottom half of the Course Information Window. It contains a list of courses that must be completed before the displayed course can be taken. Pre-Requisites are taken into account when individual student course requests are entered in the Scheduling System. As course requests are entered the program checks the transcript file and the current year's schedule to see if the student has taken the required pre-requisites. If he has not, a message is displayed. Administrators can override the message and add the request. Students who are users cannot. The program does not check grades to see if the student passed the pre-requistes.

In addition, when the program is building the master schedule and assigning students to classes it checks pre-requistes to make sure the student gets his classes in the correct order. For example, if a student requests Spanish 1 and Spanish 2, the program will make sure to assign Spanish 1 in Semester 1 and Spanish 2 in Semester 2.

This tab allows you to create groups of pre-requisites. Groups are used to allow alternatives to some prerequisites. For example, in order to take Shakespeare a student may be required to have taken any two of four English classes and any two of four History classes. By creating groups, you do not have to specify exactly which classes must be taken. In Group 1 you could enter 210 American History, 211 Western Civ, 213 Geography, and 214 British History. Then indicate that any 2 of these are valid. In Group 2 you could enter 110 English 10, 204 Intro to American Lit, 115 English 11 and 120 Creative Writing. Then indicate that any 2 of these are valid.

Steps

1. Click on the Administration Menu and select Courses to display the Course Search Window.
2. Search for a course and click the Modify button at the top of the window to display the Course Information Window.
3. Click on the Pre-Requisites Tab to select it.
4. On the left click the New Group button to add a group of classes.
5. Click on the Group you have just created, and on the right click Add class. Using the search screen displayed, select the first pre-requisite in this group and click OK. Continue adding classes until the appropriate list is compiled.
6. With the Group still highlighted, click in the Require field and indicate the number of classes in this group that must be taken. For example, a student may need any 2 of 6 English classes to take Shakespeare.
7. Multiple groups can be added for each course. Each group can contain a different set of classes.
8. When all of the pre-requisites have been added you can move on to another Tab and continue entering information or click on OK to close the window and save your changes.

See Also

Course Information Window

Courses - Calculation Tab

Courses - State Info Tab

Courses - Schedule Tab