Purpose

This report is produced and sent to the unit coordinator and/or the unit contact to outline the details of students who have applied for special consideration and do not have an outcome recorded. It is designed to assist the responsible person in the decision-making process.

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Run Details

This job is run:

• At intervals during an Assessment Period.
• At any time deemed necessary for whatever reason.

This job is run during Assessment Periods to advise Unit Coordinators and/or Unit Contacts of students with unresolved special consideration applications.

It is recommended that this job be run in batch mode. However, it can be run online, particularly where the report is run with parameters specifying a small data set, such as a specific Unit Code.

Refer to the Job Control and Scheduling Subsystem for details of scheduling and running batch jobs.

The Application for Special Consideration block contains:

Parameters tab

Report Parameters

• Assessment Period
• Teaching Period
• Owning Organisational Unit
• Unit Code
• Location
• Mode
• Class
• Application Received Date Range
  This parameter is typically set to the Default Start Date + 1 where the Default Start Date is the last time the report was run. Each time this report is scheduled to run it will generally select those applications created after the previous run unless otherwise specified by the user. However, if the report is run twice on the same day, changes performed since the first run will not be selected.
  • Start Date
  • End Date
    

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• Include Unit Coordinators/Unit Contacts
  This parameter defines whether the Unit Contact, Unit Coordinator or both are displayed on each page of the report.
• Unit Coordinator/Contact Address Type
  This parameter displays the contact telephone number for the Unit Coordinator.
  Note: unlike parameters in other reports, if a specific address type is not selected in this parameter leaving the '%' displayed, no contact phone number is displayed. The normal operation of the '%' in other parameters is to display ALL of the options
• Message 1 General Instructions/Information
  Message 1 field is used in the frontice page of the report. Select the required messages from the LOV's.
• Message 2 Outcome Notes
  Message 2 field is used in the frontice page of the report. Select the required messages from the LOV's.
• Message 3 General Instructions/Information
  Message 3 field is used for further details below the Contact/Coordinator details in the body of the report.
• Unit Coordinator Title
  Used to define the names of the signature panel at the bottom of each page of the report.
  For example: an institution's name for 'Unit Coordinator' might be 'Chair of Assessment Panel'.
• Chair of Board Examiners Title
  Used to define the names of the signature panel at the bottom of each page of the report.
• Report Sort Option
  Several sort combinations are available to allow the user to define the report output.
• Include Course Code check box

Rules/Notes:

Note: The % symbol indicates that the parameter is not considered for processing.

Most parameters available within this report are used to refine the information produced. However, several parameters have different effects.

This report is presented in landscape mode.

The first page of the report displays information on the keys to special consideration categories and outcomes. This page appears prior to each Unit Offering Option so that each Contact/Coordinator receives a copy.