Record Enrolments - ENRF3000

Student Course Attempt (ENR3000b)

Purpose

To allow the recording and maintenance of students' course attempts and to confirm student's enrolment in those courses

Subsystem

Enrolments

Structure

Part of Record Enrolments form

Two Blocks

Person

Student Course Attempt

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Person

Explanation

The Person block (context block) displays the current student record (context record) from the Record Enrolments - Person Details screen. The displayed records in the Student Course Attempt block are the student's recorded course attempts.

Example

To record or enquire on the enrolment of a student, the student's record must first be located and displayed in the Record Enrolments form - Person Details screen. Highlighting the required enrolment attempt and selecting the Course button on the Student Course Attempts Summary block, navigates directly to the Student Course Attempt screen.

 

Student Course Attempt

Explanation

This block is used to display the course attempts of a student. All of a student's course attempts can be displayed except those which have been deleted. The status of any course attempt is identified by the following System defined course attempt statuses:

  • UNCONFIRM - Course to which the student has been admitted (pre-enrolled or offered a place), but has not yet confirmed their intention to accept the place and enrol.
  • INACTIVE - where the student has accepted the offer and confirmed their intention to enrol, but has no enrolled units.
  • ENROLLED - Course in which the student has ENROLLED units.
  • INTERMIT - Course from which the student is currently intermitted (has leave of absence). Once the intermission has expired, the status will revert to INACTIVE or ENROLLED.
  • LAPSED - Continuing (returning) student has failed to confirm their unit enrolment within the designated time frame.
  • DISCONTIN - Course from which the student has been withdrawn.
  • COMPLETE - Course in which the student has satisfied the completion requirements.

The status of a course attempt is derived dynamically when any relevant enrolment detail is changed. Critical dates can affect the status of a course attempt. The job ENRJ5100 is run to update course attempt statuses when critical dates have been reached. The derivation logic by which course attempt statuses are determined is the subject of a special topic.

Having displayed the courses in which a student is eligible to enrol (UNCONFIRM), enrolment in a particular course can be confirmed by selecting the Confirm checkbox. This enrols the student in that course. If the student's Course Attempt Summary lists multiple unconfirmed courses and the Confirm checkbox is selected for a course, the Pre-enrolment process is initiated.

There may be circumstances where an institution needs to add a course to a person using this form (explained below). This can only be done when the selected enrolment category/procedure detail has the 'Course Add Allowed' indicator set. However, in most situations, the addition of new courses is handled in the Admissions subsystem, or by using the transfer process accessed by navigation button from this form.

The form is also used to re-enrol continuing students. Instructions below provide detail of the separate re-enrolment circumstances which may be encountered.

The session details, together with enrolment procedure detail steps, control the content and layout of the Student Course Attempt screen.

A comprehensive list of T-list values and their purpose is provided in T-list Items in the Student Course Attempt Screen.

The actual items displayed in the T-list are controlled by the session details/enrolment category and the system enrolment step access.

Along the bottom of the block are a series of navigation buttons. Each button invokes a screen where further enrolment information may be queried and/or updated. The actual buttons displayed and their order are determined by the session details/enrolment category. Some of the button labels may be in bold text indicating that entry of this data is mandatory. A list of all possible navigation buttons and their use is provided under Forms Accessed by Navigation Buttons in The Record Enrolments Form.

Users of this form should be aware of the special graphical and textual features it contains, which are described under Features of the Record Enrolments form.

Example

See Session Details (ENR3000a) for an example of dynamically configured enrolments screens.

 

To display a person's current course attempts in the Record Enrolments - Student Course Attempts screen:

  1. Navigating to the Student Course Attempt screen causes any existing course attempts to be displayed, including completed and discontinued attempts.

To add a course attempt to a student using the Record Enrolments - Student Course Attempt screen:

  1. Ensure that the correct Person record is displayed.
  2. Enter Insert mode.
  3. Select the course offering in which the student is enrolling from the list of values in the Course Code field of a blank record. (Usually, the course code is keyed, with the LOV then being invoked to determine which course offering option to record.)
  4. Select the Confirm checkbox to indicate that the student's enrolment is confirmed. If multilple course attempts are listed for this student, the Pre-enrolment process will begin.If not, the Commencement Date will default to the commencement date alias instance (cdai), where enrolment is taking place before this date, or to the current date if after the cdai. The Course Attempt Status will default to INACTIVE. (This will change to ENROLLED when unit attempts are enrolled against the course attempt.)
  5. If the commencement date is incorrect, enter the correct commencement date. Note that a manually entered commencement date becomes the default date for the remainder of the session, or at least until another date is entered manually.
  6. Select each value in the T-list, check the displayed data and modify if necessary. (see the explanation of T-list items for further details, see also the Enrolments Subsystem Glossary for the definition of each field)
  7. Save.
  8. Select appropriate navigation buttons to invoke forms for entry of additional data.

Rules:

  • A course attempt can only be added using this form if the Enrolment Category Procedure Detail, specified by the Enrolment Method and Enrolment Category in the session details, has its Course Add Allowed checkbox selected. The System will display a message if this action is attempted when course add is not allowed.
  • Course attempts are only added via this screen when the student is enrolling in the course, therefore the Confirmed checkbox should be selected.
  • A student is only able to enrol in units offered in teaching periods which end after the student's course attempt commencement date.

To enrol a new student in a pre-enrolled course using the Record Enrolments - Student Course Attempt screen:

  1. Find the required Person record.
  2. Find the required Student Course Attempt record and select (locate the cursor in) this record.
  3. Select the Confirmed indicator. The Commencement Date will be entered as the current date and the Course Attempt Status will be automatically changed to INACTIVE until the first unit is enrolled (at which time the course attempt status will become ENROLLED).
  4. If the Commencement Date is incorrect, enter the correct date.
  5. Select each value in the T-list, check the displayed fields and modify if necessary. (see the explanation of T-list items for further details, see also the Enrolments Subsystem Glossary for the definition of each field)
  6. Save.
  7. Select appropriate navigation buttons to invoke forms for entry of additional data.

Rules:

  • A student is only able to enrol in units offered in teaching periods which end after the student's course attempt commencement date.
  • For a commencing student introduced via the Admissions subsystem, much of the data in this form will be defaulted from that subsystem, including name, address and contact details and course attempt(s).
  • A student may have a pre-existing administrative encumbrance which blocks their enrolment. In this case the encumbrance lamp will display.

To re-enrol a continuing student in an existing course attempt using the Record Enrolments - Student Course Attempt screen:

  1. Find the required Person record.
  2. Find the required Student Course Attempt record and select (locate the cursor in) this record.
  3. Use the appropriate method below:

Where the student course attempt (SCA) status is ENROLLED.

  1. Navigate to the Student Unit Attempt form and confirm pre-enrolled units, add and delete units as required.

Where the SCA status is INTERMIT.

Most intermissions are set to end on the first day of a new teaching period. Students may also seek re-enrolment prior to the end date of a period of intermission.

  1. Navigate to the Maintain Student Course Intermission form (ENRF4160) and adjust the end date of the period of intermission where required.
  2. If the student has any enrolled units, the System will change the course attempt status to ENROLLED on expiration of the intermission
  3. If the student has no enrolled units, the System will change the course attempt status to INACTIVE. Use the Student Unit Attempt form to add units (see note). This will change the course attempt status to ENROLLED.
  4. Use the Student Unit Attempt form to add and delete units as required.

Where the SCA status is DISCONTIN

A discontinued course can be re-instated in the System. Use of this process will depend on the institutions rules regarding discontinuation. The re-instatement process is fully described under Course and Unit Discontinuation.

  1. Re-instate the course attempt. The course attempt status should return to INACTIVE.
  2. Re-instate any required unit attempts with current teaching periods. This causes the course attempt status to change to ENROLLED.
  3. Use the Student Unit Attempt form to add and delete units as required. This also causes the course attempt status to change to ENROLLED (when step 2 has not been performed).

Where the SCA status is LAPSED

SCAs lapse where a student does not re-enrol by a specified date. Institution rules apply time limits on the period a course attempt can be lapsed before it is discontinued. A lapsed course can be re-instated by the following:

  1. End date the lapse period. The course attempt status is returned to INACTIVE when the end date is reached.
  2. Use the Student Unit Attempt form to confirm pre-enrolled units and add and delete units as required. This also causes the course attempt status to change to ENROLLED .

Where the student course attempt (SCA) status is COMPLETE.

Use the Student Unit Attempt screen to record units. Callista allows a student who has already completed course requirements to continue to study further units. The System warns the user that the SCA is already complete, but does not block the enrolment of further units.

Notes/Rules:

·         If the census date for the teaching period occurred during the period of intermission, it is not possible to add new units to a student's enrolment in that teaching period, even if the intermission's end date has passed.

  • The student's course attempt status will already be either ENROLLED, INTERMIT, DISCONTIN or LAPSED.
  • A course can be discontinued while it is lapsed. To re-instate such a course it is necessary to lift both the dicontinuation and the lapse.
  • In some cases the ability to enrol a student may be affected by an encumbrance. The student's encumbrance may have to be removed before enrolment is permitted.
  • Callista allows a student who has already completed course requirements to continue to study further units. (Note: Certain groups of students, notably HECS liable students, are not permitted to do this by Commonwealth Government regulation)

To modify or delete a student's course attempt using the Record Enrolments - Student Course Attempt screen:

  1. Find the record to be modified.
  2. Change the confirmed indicator and/or the commencement date as required.
  3. Save.

Rules:

  • Course attempts cannot be modified or deleted here. They can have their Confirmed indicator (and hence the course attempt status) and the commencement date changed. A student's course offering option can be changed by using the Change Students Course Offering Option form (ENRF4110), accessed via the Chg Option navigation button (when displayed) in this form.
  • Other processes will affect a student's course attempt, including:
    • discontinuation
    • lapsing
    • intermission and
    • encumbrances

Last modified on 18 October 2002