Creating Course Associations

Course Management has introduced a structure for connecting courses that are recommended or required to be taken together. At this phase of the project, Course Management is primarily capturing these relationships and they will not have any impact on student registration in SSOL but will be visible/informative in Vergil Course Search. However, Pre- and co-requisites will be enforceable once students are registering in the new Vergil registration engine. 

Key things to consider when setting Course Associations: 

  • You must set your associations on the course level in the Course Inventory before you can complete class-level associations in the Semester Schedule. 
  • Both courses must be approved and mounted before you can create associations between them in the Course Inventory. 

For information about the four types of associations, Prerequisites, Corequisites, Meets Together, and Year-Long, visit the Proposal and Inventory fields page. 

Creating Course Associations

Adding Course Associations to a course can only be done within the Inventory. On Page 4 of the Course Proposal page, you will be able to add Pre-Requisite, Co-Requisite, Meets Together, and Multi-Term Associations. 

Please Note - When there are multiple courses in one grouping Association, students will have to take all the classes in one grouping to meet the requirements. Please refer to the Image for reference. As highlighted in the image Image, students would have to take either both classes in Grouping A or the class in Grouping B to meet the pre-requisite requirement. 

Below is an image with step-by-step instructions on how to group courses.

  • Step 1: Click on the arrow to expand the association menu. 
  • Step 2: Select 'New Grouping' to begin entering the associated courses. All Courses placed in the same grouping will be required to be taken together. Different groupings will give students the option of taking all courses either in Grouping A or Grouping B to meet the course requirements. 
  • Step 3: Type in your course or a keyword to produce a dropdown menu for you to select a course. 
  • Step 4: Click 'Save Changes' to save your grouping associations. After saving your changes, you will be able to edit the other associations.
  • Step 5: Add More groupings(optional).

 

This image depicts where a user can set their course associations and steps to do so. Step 1: click the arrow to expand the association menu. Step 2: Select New Grouping to begin entering the associated courses. Courses placed in the same grouping will be required together, those placed in different groupings will give students the option of taking Course A or Course B to meet the requirement. Step 3: Type in your course. Step 4: Save your associations. Step 5: Optional; allows you to remove a course.

Setting Class Associations

For information on specifying and setting Associations between classes in the Semester Schedule, refer to the Prerequisites and Corequisites page. 

Course Associations in Vergil Course Search

To view the student perspective of course associations in the Vergil Course Search please use the Tango link below: 

Tango Link - Current Student View - Course Associations in Vergil Course Search