Course Offering Notes

Maintain Course Offering Notes - CRSF1340

Purpose To allow the creation and maintenance of notes relating to course offerings.

Subsystem Course Structure & Planning

Structure Two Blocks Course Offering
Course Offering Note

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Course Offering

Explanation

The Course Offering block (context block) displays the current course offering (context record) from the Maintain Course Offerings form. The displayed records in the Course Offering Note block are the notes for the context record

Example

If course offering A300 - Bachelor of Arts, version x is selected in the Maintain Course Offerings form and the Course Offering Notes navigation button is selected, then this form will display A300 - Bachelor of Arts, version x, Standard Academic Year as the context record and any existing notes relating to this course offering will be displayed.

To inquire on the course offering notes of an offering other than that initially displayed:

This block does not permit a query to be entered. It is necessary to:

Re-query the course version and/or the course offering.
Navigate back to the Maintain Course Offering Notes form.

Course Offering Note

Explanation

This function allows additional information to be attached to course offerings in the form of notes. Notes of many types may be created, each type reflecting the common purpose of the notes asssociated with it.
Notes may be created, stored and retrieved in almost any format. The currently available formats are:

Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Text
Other OLE (permitting virtually any other format)

Note:

NCA notes are currently available in Text format only. Future Developments might enable the portablitiy of all other formats.

Full instructions and explanations for the use of the notes facility are covered under Notes Facility in the General System Functions and Facilities section.
Note:

standards established by the institution should be used to determine to which data notes should be attached. Notes may be attached to data at the following levels:

Course Version
Course Offering Pattern
Course Offering Option
Unit Version
Unit Offering
Unit Offering Pattern
Unit Offering Option

Example

Notes of type HANDBOOK could be created to record notes for publishing in a University handbook.

Purpose	To allow the creation and maintenance of notes relating to course offerings.
Subsystem	Course Structure & Planning
Structure	Two Blocks	Course Offering Course Offering Note
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To inquire on the course offering notes of an offering other than that initially displayed:
This block does not permit a query to be entered. It is necessary to: Re-query the course version and/or the course offering. Navigate back to the Maintain Course Offering Notes form.