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Dec 14, 2007 at 04:08 PM

Automatic booking of mandatory specializations for a study

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Hello,

I ask for advice for how to accomplish the automatical booking of mandatory specialisations of a study program when a student registers or changes his study.

We have the following scenario:

All of our study programs consist of at least three specialisations (modul groups) with different areas of study. In general, at least one of these specialisations (the "major") is a mandatory one. Others (minor) may be elective. In some cases even all specialisations may be mandatory.

Example:

student registers to (SC) pedagocical science which consists of the mandatory major (bookable CG of category KERN) pedagocical science, some elective area of general study (bookable CG of category MA30) and a mandatory area of professional skill education (bookable CG of category ABV).

With a defined module group variant we can check on registration and study change that the study is complete with regard to the components. But we want to accomplish more comfort in these processes by automatically assigning the mandatory parts of the study (in the example this is the major pedacogical science and the professional skills).

Q: How can this be expressed in the academical structure?

If there is (yet) no support for this, we think about expressing this by enabling the flag "Pflichtstation" (sorry for the German word, I am not at the system, in English this might be "mandatory step") on the relat 500 between SC and CG and developing a function block which given an SC returns bookable CGs on mandatory paths. We could later use this in PIQST while assigning specialisations after registration or study change.

Q: Would this be a safe modification with regard to future changes in SLCM?

For those who know our installation in Berlin and wonder why I ask this, although we yet use an old legacy system for our student registration:

The old system does not know about the mandatory parts of the study because it has only one registration record for the study program itself and one for the elected mandatory minor. For now we construct the missing mandatory specialisation bookings with a special logic between the old system and SLCM, which is error prone and requires doing redundant changes in two software systems.

But in future when we will do student registration in CM this change would also be helpful, I think.

Many thanks for all kind of advise,

Dirk Pape from Berlin.