Apply an Overarching Rule

An Overarching Rule can be used to group two or more course collections together and apply restrictions to all the collections within that group. This is particularly useful when allowing the students to select a range of credits from course collections.

For example, a student may be required to select a minimum of 10 credits and a maximum of 30 credits from two course collections. An overarching rule can then be applied restricting the total credits selected from both course collections to exactly 40 credits.

The DPT course options displayed below currently requires the student to select courses from both collections as represented by the AND operand.

Click the Edit Overarching Group Names link.

The Edit Overarching Group Names screen displays the sequence number, code and name of all the course options in the DPT.

The Operand field shows the relationship between the two course options, however this can not be edited in this screen.

The Group Name column contains a dropdown list allowing each course option to be added to a group. In this example both course options will be added to Group A so that an overarching rule can then be applied to the course options within the group.

Update the Group Name column so both course options are in Group A and click .

If the store is successful a confirmation message will be displayed. Click the Go Back to DPT link to return to the Amend DPT screen and view the updated record.

The course options added to Group A have been grouped together in a new box (shaded blue) indicating they are subject to an overarching rule.

The minimum and maximum credits for the overarching rule need to be specified.

Click the Edit Group Credit link.

Enter the minimum and maximum credits that need to be selected in total from both course options in Group A. In this case a total of exactly 40 credits should be selected.

Click .

If the store is successful a confirmation message will be displayed. Click the Go Back to DPT link to return to the Amend DPT screen and view the updated record.

The overarching rule has been specified as above. The number of credits to be selected form each course option should now be updated.

Click the Edit Collection Credits link for sequence 070.

Enter the minimum and maximum credits that should be selected from this course option. In this example students will be required to select a minimum of 10 credits and a maximum of 30 credits from the course collection.

Click  followed by the Go Back to DPT link to view the updated record.

The credits have been updated to reflect the range entered.

Repeat the process for sequence 080 using the same credit range and return to the Amend DPT screen to view the updated record.

Students will now be required to select a minimum of 10 and maximum of 30 credits from each of the course collections subject to an overarching rule that restricts the total number selected to exactly 40 credits.