Use Features for Course Requisites

Requisites consist of: 

  • Prerequisites
  • Anti-requisites
  • Corequisites

Prerequisites must be met before a student can register for a course. A course can have multiple prerequisites. For example, you can specify:

  • Prerequisite courses
  • Required credits or hours remaining in the program
  • Minimum required credits or hours
  • Minimum required grade level
  • Required tests (including the minimum test score)
  • Required documents

An anti-requisite is a course requisite rule with a Requisite Type of Prerequisite and an Allow/Deny Registration type of Deny Registration. Anti-requisites deny registration when they are met. For example, if the anti-requisite specifies MAT120 or MAT125 with a minimum required GPA of 2.0, Anthology Student prevents a student from registering for MAT101 if the student completed MAT120 or MAT125 with a GPA of 2.0 or higher.

Corequisites are courses that must be taken along with another course. Corequisites must be also met when you register a student in a course or unregister a student from the course. A course can have multiple corequisite courses.

To give the student options, you can also select the Prerequisite/Corequisite option to make a course either a prerequisite or corequisite.

Options Available in Anthology Student for Managing Requisites

Anthology Student has options for managing course requisites. There are: 

  • Legacy features you can use to add requisites course by course

  • Newly added features that you can use to build requisite rules that you can then manage in a central location and apply to multiple courses

To use the requisite rules feature, your institution must have selected Yes for the following advanced feature. (Select the Settings tile > expand System > select Advanced Features.) Allow Enhanced Pre-requisite and Co-requisite FeatureClosed Enables the new feature for configuring requisite rules. Using the feature, you can configure prerequisite or corequisite rules that you can apply to more than one course. When you enable this feature, a Course Requisite Rules option is available from the Configuration tile and the Prerequisite and Corequisite tiles are replaced with one Requisites tile in course configuration. When you select Yes, Anthology Student automatically migrates your existing prerequisite and corequisite rules to requisite rules so that you can modify and consolidate them as needed to make your rule management more efficient. During the migration, Anthology Student prefixes your existing prerequisite rules with pr- and corequisites rules with -cr. For example, if the course code for a prerequisite is ENG101 (course name: English Composition) the code of the rule will be pr-ENG101 and the name of the rule will be Legacy Pre-Req migrated rule for English Composition. If the course code for a corequisite is BIO101LAB, the name of the rule will be cr-BIO101LAB. Enabling this feature permanently disables features in the legacy interface related to rules (such as prerequisites and corequisite rules and actions for courses like register, unregister, and drop). Other changes can still be made to courses in the legacy interface (such as edits to the course, books, and fees).

If your institution selected No, the tile and page are not available in the interface. You can use the Corequistes and Prerequisites tiles from Configure > Courses instead.

Only the legacy features will be available for creating requisites.

The table describes the variation in the interface for the options.

Value Your Institution Selected for the Advanced Feature Options Available in the Interface
No

From Configuration > Academic Records > Courses, there is a:

  • Prerequisites tile you can use to manage prerequisites just for that course

  • Corequisites tile you can use to manage corequisites just for that course
Yes

From Configuration > Academic Records > : 

  • Course Requisite Rules, you can manage rules and apply them to more than one course.

  • Courses, there is a Requisites tile you can use to manage the rules for individual courses. For example, you can add and remove rules. Any rule you add is made available for you to add to other courses using the Course Requisite Rules page.

Additional Information for Advanced Feature of No

If your institution decides to specify No for the advanced feature and wants to use the legacy features, refer to: 

Enabling the feature will permanently disable features in the legacy interface related to rules (such as configuring courses and actions for courses like register, unregister, and drop). Other changes can still be made to courses in the legacy interface (such as edits to the course, books, and fees).

Additional Information for Advanced Feature of Yes

Selecting Yes for Allow Enhanced Pre-requisite and Co-requisite FeatureClosed Enables the new feature for configuring requisite rules. Using the feature, you can configure prerequisite or corequisite rules that you can apply to more than one course. When you enable this feature, a Course Requisite Rules option is available from the Configuration tile and the Prerequisite and Corequisite tiles are replaced with one Requisites tile in course configuration. When you select Yes, Anthology Student automatically migrates your existing prerequisite and corequisite rules to requisite rules so that you can modify and consolidate them as needed to make your rule management more efficient. During the migration, Anthology Student prefixes your existing prerequisite rules with pr- and corequisites rules with -cr. For example, if the course code for a prerequisite is ENG101 (course name: English Composition) the code of the rule will be pr-ENG101 and the name of the rule will be Legacy Pre-Req migrated rule for English Composition. If the course code for a corequisite is BIO101LAB, the name of the rule will be cr-BIO101LAB. Enabling this feature permanently disables features in the legacy interface related to rules (such as prerequisites and corequisite rules and actions for courses like register, unregister, and drop). Other changes can still be made to courses in the legacy interface (such as edits to the course, books, and fees).:

  • Enables the Course Requisite Rules option from Configuration > Academic Records.

  • Replaces the Prerequisites and Corequisites tiles from Configuration > Academic Records > Courses with one Requisites tile.

  • Permanently disables features in the legacy interface related to rules (such as configuring prerequisite and corequisite rules for a course and actions for courses like register, unregister, and drop). Other changes can still be made to courses in the legacy interface (such as edits to the course, books, and fees).

  • Automatically migrates your existing prerequisite and corequisite rules to requisite rules so that you can modify and consolidate them as needed to make your rule management more efficient.

During the migration, Anthology Student prefixes your existing:

  • Prerequisite rules with pr-. For example, if the course code is ENG101 with a course name of English Composition the code of the rule will be pr-ENG101 and the name of the rule will be Legacy Pre-Req migrated rule for English Composition.

  • Corequisite rules with cr-. For example, if the course code is BIO101LAB with a course name of Biology I Lab, the code of the rule will be cr-BIO101LAB and the name of the rule will be Legacy Co-Req migrated rule for Biology I Lab.

Note: You must wait a minimum of 30 minutes after you select Yes for Allow Enhanced Pre-requisite and Co-requisite Feature for Anthology Student to complete the migration. After the 30 minutes, you can access the Course Requisite Rules page. (Select Configuration > Academic Records > Course Requisite Rules.)

On the page you can then:

  • Select the Rule Migration Exceptions button to display a list of prerequisite and corequisite rules that Anthology Student did not migrate (For example, if a staff member started to create a rule that they did not finish and it is an invalid or empty rule, Anthology Student does not migrate it.)

  • Begin to work with your migrated rules and add your new requisite rules

If your institution decides to specify Yes for the advanced features and wants to use the newly added features that you can use to build requisite rules, there is more than one method for managing requisite rules. You can manage rules from: 

  • The Course Requisite Rules page (Select the Configuration tile > locate Academic Records > select Course Requisite Rules.)

  • The Courses page (Select the Configuration tile > locate Academic Records > select Courses > add or select a course in the list > select the Requisites tile. )

The table compares the options available from the two locations.

  Course Requisite Rules Page Requisites Tile from Courses Page
Edit a rule applied to one course

X

X
Edit a rule applied to multiple courses

X

 
Create a new rule for one course

X

X
Create a new rule for multiple courses

X

 
Create a new rule using duplicate

X

 
Deactivate a rule applied to one course

X

X
Deactivate a rule applies to multiple courses

X

 
Delete a rule applied to one course

X

X
Delete a rule applied to multiple courses

X

 

If your institution later decides to enable the advanced feature and you already have prerequisites and corequisites configured for courses, Anthology Student converts them to requisite rules. You can then modify and consolidate them as needed to make your rule management more efficient.

Configuring Documents as Prerequisites

Using both features you can configure one or more documents as prerequisites.

If you want to configure a document as a course prerequisite, your institution must have selected the Registration Prerequisite DocumentClosed Specifies the document is to be configured as a course or course section prerequisite. Within the Permit Details tab, you can specify the course, for which the document should allow registration. This check box is enabled only when you select Academic Records option in the Module field. check box for the documents on the Documents page. (Select the Configuration tile > expand Contact Manager > select Documents.) Only active documents with the check box selected will be available to select as a prerequisite.

You can configure document prerequisites at the course level as (Configuration > Academic Records > Courses > Prerequisites) or at the class section level (Class Scheduling > Documents & LMS Options).

For example, if a document prerequisite is defined at the course level and the course can be repeated, students must provide the document only once when they register for the course the first time. If the document prerequisite is defined at the class section level, students must provide the document for each class section.

Validations and Conflicts

The rules that you create are displayed to staff members when they register students in Anthology Student and to students when they register for a course in the Student Portal.

When you register, unregister, and drop students from course individually or in batch, Anthology Student performs validations and displays conflicts. If the staff member has permission, they can override the conflicts and continue to register, unregister, or drop the student.

When Anthology Student evaluates requisite rules, it evaluates anti-requisite rules first. If registrations is: 

  • Denied for the anti-requisite, Anthology Student does not move on to evaluating prerequisites and corequisites

  • Allowed for the anti-requisite, Anthology Student evaluates the prerequisites and corequisites

For more information, refer to Background for Requisite Validations and Conflicts.