Grid Positioning

Read each section below for an overview of how the Course Plan Interface works, key terms and concepts that are crucial to designing your outline, and some sample outline coding with output:

NOTE:

The Student Course Plan grid is visible to students at all times while still retaining the business logic around when a student is eligible to perform online Unit Enrolment. Students can see more information in a read-only state.

Student Course Plan screen

How to display your units in the Student's Course Plan screen?

Given all the introductions about the Course Outline from the Course Outline Basics page, all the units (constraints) when coded under the Courses > Outline page, will have some of the possible Display Code values (as shown in the screenshot below).

Student Course Plan Grid Positions: Possible Display Code Values

Example

In the Student Course Enrolment Screen (Student > Course Enrolment > Course Plan) view, students can see all the units available for them to complete their course in table format (as shown in the sample screenshot below); the two units highlighted in RED below show their grid positions.

Screenshot 1: Student Course Plan View

While for you as an administrator, under the Course Outlines Screen (Courses > Outline) view, you can see this (see Screenshot 2) for a course that has already an existing outline; and

Screenshot 2: Administrator Course Outline View, Course with Existing Outlines

a screen like below (see Screenshot 3) for a course that has no outline yet.

Screenshot 3: Administrator Course Outline View, Course with NO Existing Outlines

Now, if you have noticed, on your screen as an administrator, you will see a column named Display Code with the sample values of A1, B2, A3, etc. This would indicate where you want the scheduled unit or subject to be displayed on the student Course Plan page. This works like the table in EXCEL spreadsheets: A would mean the column called Stage 1 in the student screen screenshot above, B on Stage 2, and so on and so forth…, and the number 1 would indicate the row number so 1 in row 1, 2 in row 2, so on and so forth…(as shown in the first image above this page), so for the unit name ID BEM1001 (A1), it appears on the Stage 1 column in the first row of the student course plan’s table, and BEM1002 (B2) on Stage 2 column row 2 (as shown in the student Screenshot 1: Student Course Plan View above, highlighted in RED, and expanded in the below screenshot).

Units Colour Legend

On the Student Course Plan page (Student > Course Enrolment > Course Plan), Paradigm colour-coded the units that are included in the course for students to easily identify which ones are available and allowable to enrol. The Course Plan allows staff members to enrol students into units or it allows students to enrol themselves into units with ease.

Colour	Meaning
Green	The student has previously completed this unit. Units with this colour would normally contain the Grade Outcome the student got for the unit competed.
Blue	The student is currently enrolled in this unit. Units with this colour would also contain the equivalent Credit Points.
Orange	Unit is not available because prerequisites have not been met. Prerequisite units should be completed first before these units could become available for enrolment. This could also mean that the Unit has been set by other constraints that are making the Student not eligible to enrol.
White (with 🔲 )	Unit can be selected for enrolment. Units with this colour label would also contain the Session Times for student to choose from (if there are other available session times offered).
White (without 🔲)	Unit has been scheduled, student meets prerequisites, but the enrolment period has not yet opened, and students are prevented from enrolling in the unit. Note: Staff member needs to double check the configuration time period called “UNIT_ENROLMENT”.
Grey	Unit is not scheduled for the next enrolment period. This rule overrides the Orange rule where a prerequisite has not been met, i.e. when a prerequisite has not been met and the unit has not yet been scheduled, the unit will be shown in a grey cell.

Course Plan Grid

The Course Plan is a grid that is restricted to a maximum of 9 columns across the screen, denoted by columns A through I (the first through to the ninth English letters), usually representing the passage of time by semester or trimester.

The grid is restricted to a maximum of 25 rows down the screen representing the type of unit to be studied. The rows are grouped based on a shared description, so for the units to appear nicely aligned and ordered along a row and in columns across the screen, then the description needs to be exactly the same for the units to be shown on that row.

These columns and row length restrictions are in place to prevent the containing grid structure from becoming unwieldy on devices with smaller display screens. Examples are shown below.

Course Plan Rows

Paradigm has a maximum display of 25 rows (as discussed above).

The table in the Course Plan screen works like a spreadsheet where columns are labelled as A, B, C, etc., while rows are numbered. Each grid position (or cell in Excel) is defined in the Display Code field when you add a new unit (constraint) on the Courses Outline (Courses > Outline) page. For more details on how these works refer to the next page article: Add Core and Elective Units. In the sample screenshot below, the Display Code values are the following: for the BEM1003 unit which is under the Stage 1 column and in the first row would have an A1 value, while BEM3002 would be B1, the next row would have the same column values with an incremented row number, e.g. A2 B2, A3 B3, A4 B4, etc.

Course Plan Columns

Paradigm has a maximum display of 9 (A-I) columns (as discussed above).

In the sample screenshot below, BEM1003 has a Display Code value of A1 as mentioned above, and since all the units under this belong to the same column Stage 1 (Column 1) we will still use the A-value and just increment the number to match the row location, in this case, BEM2001 would have an A2, and BEM3006 would have an A3 value in the Display Code field. The next column would have the letter B and then the row number value. Since Paradigm only supports 9 columns, the column value ends at the letter I.

For all other grid positions in the table, the concept is the same. It all depends on how you organise the units or constraints on the Courses Outline page. In the example below, since the unit is under the Stage 3 column, which is the second column from the Course column, and it’s on the third row, its grid position or Display Code value is B3.

Column 3 Row 3 in the Course Plan has a Grid Position B3 when coded