Customise the Course Plan Interface

Overview

A Course Plan if not properly organised, and if contents are not (clearly) conveyed can be a bit confusing to a student. The Course Outline in Paradigm allows you to edit and organise the contents depending on your business or institution’s preference.

Main Page

The main page of the Course Plan can be customised by the following: (1) column headings, (2) labels, (3) add new tables and (4) customise grid contents.

(5) A new section above the main Course Plan is now available to be customised if you want to specify the Course Requirements.

Workflows

Choose from Workflows 1-5 below depending on what section of the Course Plan view you want to edit:

(1) Course Plan Table Headers

The Student Course Plan page header labels are designed to be in table format with the following Header Labels: Course Name, Stage 1-4. The Stage 1-4 headings are designed so the students do not get confused in selecting the units they want and associate them with the academic terms. Their attention will be focused instead on the colour-coded units where they can see the statuses of their unit enrolments: previously completed, currently enrolled, allowed to enrol, disallowed by prerequisite, and the units not scheduled.

However, if you would like to customise the column headings following your business or institution’s naming convention, you can do so by following the instructions below:

1. Refer to the instructions on this link on how to edit form labels by searching.

2. In the Step 4 instruction, enter “student_course_plan_heading” in the Label ID field.

3. Follow the rest of the instructions on that link.

Other table column headers that you can edit are the following: Table 2 and Table 3, see sample screenshot below.

(A) For Table 2, the Label ID that you need to search to edit this label is “student_course_plan_tableY”; and

(B) For Table 3, enter “student_course_plan_tableZ”.

Summary:

(2) Course Plan First Column Row Labels

Column Labels on the first column of the Student Course Plan view can be customised to make it more organised and easy to read by grouping the units into constraints or adding a new table for each constraint type as necessary.

Editing the Labels under the Course Name Column Header

The labels on this column come from the Description field when adding a new unit or constraint to the course outline. Note the example in the screenshot below:

In the screenshot above, note that whatever text or information you enter in the Description field in adding another unit or constraint will appear on the first column with the Course Name heading on the Student Course Plan page. Leaving this field blank will make that column field blank.

1. You can edit the labels under this column by clicking the EDIT button on the existing units (constraints);

2. Go to the EDIT COURSE OUTLINE DETAILS Form section down the page and edit the Description field.

3. Click the SAVE OUTLINE CONSTRAINT button to save the changes and check under the Student Course Plan page to see if the change is successful.

(3) Add a Table to Group Units or Constraints

You also have the option to add another table below the existing table that you are currently seeing under the Student Course Plan page. An example would be displaying all the Core Units on the table at the top and adding another table below for all your Electives.

In the sample screenshot above, all the core units are grouped and displayed at the top while the electives are on another table at the bottom. You can also edit the table column header by checking the instructions above under the Header Label section.

Note the values of the Display Code when adding another table, for Table 2, the Display Code starts with the letter Z plus the column code (e.g. A, B, etc.) and the row number, e.g. ZA1, ZB1, etc.

For Table 3, it starts with the letter Y plus the column code (e.g. A, B, etc.) and the row number, e.g. YA1, YB1, etc.

(4) Customise Grid Contents

The contents inside each grid are highly customisable, depending on your business or institution’s preference. All three pieces of information inside each grid: Unit Title, Credit Point Value, and the Grade Outcome are form fields that can be set as hidden or visible against a specific group or permission levels that you want this information to be seen.

How to Show or Hide the Unit Title, Credit Point Value, and Grade Outcome

1. Refer to the instructions on how to edit form fields on this link:

2. In the FORM FIELD LIST Form section, enter or search for the following:

3. Follow the rest of the instructions on that link, depending on how you want the grid content to be seen.

(5) Customise the Course Requirements Section

The MY COURSE REQUIREMENTS section on the Course Plan page can be customised under the Base Course record level with the field name "Qualification Completion Requirements". Refer to the Edit a Base Course record workflow to add your Course requirements.

Course Plan Next Page

Following the student's unit selection from the Main Page, on the subsequent page, they will encounter options to choose from the sessions associated with the scheduled units. To display a "Semester" column, simply enable the "student_course_enrol_semester" Form Field ID