Prerequisite Project Fall 2010 Background In Fall 2009

Prerequisite Project Fall 2010

Background • In Fall 2009, we began work on initiatives to promote a clear path to graduation for students and support their progress to degree. • Initiatives have included: • Approved electives project • Expected academic progress policy • Change of major policy • Prerequisite project Fall 2010

Purpose • Promote student success in their course work • Remove obstacles • Be consistent Fall 2010

Implementation • Fall 2009 - each college provided with a spreadsheet of their courses and respective requisites for review • Spring 2010 – college review completed • Requisite changes were proposed for 27% of the 4, 100 courses reviewed Fall 2010

Implementation • Decision made to implement project in two phases 1. Winter 2011 – Enforce requisites for courses with no changes 2. Summer 2011 (start of new catalog) – Update course descriptions and enforce requisites for courses with proposed changes Fall 2010

Implementation – Phase I • Past 5 months have been spent coding “enrollment requirement groups” in People. Soft to enforce requisites • Extensive effort • Learned how to code complex requisites • Dialogued with departments to translate requisites and understand their intention Fall 2010

Implementation – Phase I • Some statistics… • Winter 2010 – enforced requisites for 608 of 1691 courses • Winter 2011 – enforcing requisites for 1127 of 1680 courses Fall 2010 • Identifying which courses have system-enforced requisites for Winter 2011 • “Check prerequisites before enrolling” note in the class schedule • Reports sent to department schedulers on October 20

Implementation – Phase II • Consult and review process is currently underway for courses with proposed changes to requisites • During Summer 2010, our office ran queries for over 1000 courses • Queries used to identify programs outside the course’s college for which the course was a requirement or elective • Results shared with colleges for their review Fall 2010 • Approved changes will be implemented with the new 2011 -2013 catalog

Requisites and Enrollment • An “enrollment requirement group” is coded in People. Soft to enforce requisites or requirements for a course • Enrollment requirement groups can be used either to • Reserve seats for a class (reserve capacity), or • Enforce course requisites/requirements Fall 2010

Requisites and Enrollment • Reserve capacity set-up in People. Soft Fall 2010 Navigation: Curriculum Management > Schedule of Classes > Maintain Schedule of Classes

Requisites and Enrollment • Reserve capacity – what a student sees CPReg Fall 2010

Requisites and Enrollment • Reserve capacity – what a student sees if they try to enroll and don’t meet a reserve capacity requirement CPReg Fall 2010

Requisites and Enrollment • Enrollment requirement set-up in People. Soft is usually in the Course Catalog (Offerings page) Select the Detail link to view coding Fall 2010 Navigation: Curriculum Management > Course Catalog

Requisites and Enrollment • For term or section specific enrollment requirements, set-up is at the class level in Adjust Class Associations (Class Requisites page) Fall 2010 Navigation: Curriculum Management > Schedule of Classes > Adjust Class Associations

Requisites and Enrollment • Enrollment requirement – what the student sees in PASS • Banner message being added for Winter 2011: Know Your Requisites – View the catalog description for a course to check its requisites before adding the class to your schedule. Many courses have requisites that are enforced in CPReg during enrollment. • Class note advising them to check prerequisites Fall 2010

Requisites and Enrollment • Enrollment requirement – what a student sees in CPReg Fall 2010

Requisites and Enrollment • Enrollment requirement – what a student sees if they try to enroll and don’t meet enrollment requirements CPReg Fall 2010

Requisites and Enrollment • Selecting “Fix Errors” takes student back to previous screens; allows them to view enrollment requirements CPReg Fall 2010

Overriding Requisites • Should be the exception • Permission numbers Fall 2010

Understanding Requisites • “Consent of instructor” required • Not coded as an enrollment requirement group • Enforced in the system through the consent field setting for the class and permission numbers • “Junior standing” • Based upon a student’s projected academic level for the term in which they’re enrolling • Coded to be junior standing or greater Fall 2010

Understanding Requisites • D-stopper • A minimum grade of C- or better is required in a prerequisite course • Has been coded to allow students to enroll if they’re currently taking the prerequisite course (prior to grades being posted) • Co-requisite: prior or concurrent enrollment in a course Fall 2010

Understanding Requisites • “Anti-requisites” will be enforced during enrollment, for example: • BUS 212, Financial Accounting for Nonbusiness Majors – Not open to Business majors. • COMS 101, Public Speaking – Not open to students with credit in COMS 102. Fall 2010

Transfer Credit • Enrollment Requirement Group set-up allows transfer credit to satisfy a requisite Fall 2010

Co-requisites and Waitlisting • System is unable to enroll students from waitlists for two courses that are co-requisites requiring concurrent enrollment • For Winter 2011, we have identified classes that would have this issue because they have term or section specific co-requisites • Advised department schedulers and adjusted setup, so students are unable to waitlist for the class and can enroll as seats become available Fall 2010 • Students are advised via a class note that waitlisting is not available for the class

Questions… Fall 2010