Optional Course Selections: Advanced SearchThe Course Enrolment (validated by DPT rules) screen displays the student’s Compulsory Course enrolments as well as the details of any Optional Course requirements. To begin making selections on behalf of the student click the Select button next to an Optional Course requirement. A Search Facility is displayed in the Select Course Instances table along with the total number of credits that must be selected to satisfy the Optional Course requirement. Note that the Search Facility is only displayed when the number of courses available to select from is too large to list on screen. There are two ways to use the Search Facility: Quick Search Advanced Search Each row of the Search Facility can be used to retrieve a single course. To retrieve courses by Course Name, Subject Area, School or Level, click the Advanced Search button in the first available row of the Search Facility. From the Search Course Instances screen you are to enter search criteria in one or more of the following fields:
Note that wildcards* can be used in the Course Name field to search by keyword e.g. *Physics* will return all courses with ‘Physics’ in the Course Name. In the example below the following search criteria has been entered:
This will return all the courses in the Optional Course collection that contain the word ‘Music’ in the Course Name and have a Credit value of ‘20’. Click the Search button to retrieve courses matching the search criteria. Note: Only courses that meet the conditions above and the conditions of the DPT Optional Course requirement will be returned.
The search results are displayed at the bottom of the screen. You can view details of each course by clicking the Course Code link in the left hand column. To select a course click the Select button in the right hand column.
When you have selected the course(s) from the list, click the Submit button at the bottom of the screen.
The selected course details are automatically populated into the first row of the Search Facility. Click the Submit Selections button to run the DPT and Entry Requirement validation and return to the Course Enrolment (validated by DPT rules) screen. The selected course is displayed against the Optional Course requirement. Now that selections have been made for all of the student’s Optional Course requirements these should be submitted using the Submit Selections button. Submit Selections, View the Student Timetable & Confirm Selections >> |