Academic Prerequisites Manager

Academic degrees and majors are structured as a set of units (core and electives). The order in which units are undertaken is determined by unit prerequisites. Formal prerequisites specify a logical combination of units already completed and the program a student is enrolled in etc. Additionally there are some informal "common sense" prerequisites and written policies, such as completing all level 1 units in a program before enrolling in the level 2 units. Currently human intelligence and effort is needed to specify and check prerequisites, and to interpret the prerequisites in UWA's two course management systems: callista and caidi. Additionally, a replacement for caidi is currently underway, and this new system should also be taken into account.

This project is to design a system for specifying prerequisites and write a software tool for interpreting prerequisites to check for valid enrolments. The project will involve first understanding the current ways in which prerequisites are encoded: random string; interpreted in callista and caidi done by hand; student services manually overrides some rules; calista everything in great detail; caidi designed for reading eg "12 points of programming". The enrollment system, callista, typically lists every single case and is designed for checking when students enrol in a unit. The main deliverable of the project will be a prototype system for defining ad checking unit prerequisite rules. The system should include guidance on how to specify prerequisites, it should facilitate clear specification and checking of prerequisites, and it should enable automatic checking of student enrolments.

Client


Contact: Feba Chacko
Email: [email protected]
Location: UWA

IP Exploitation Model


The IP exploitation model requested by the Client is: Creative Commons (open source) http://creativecommons.org.au/


Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering
The University of Western Australia
Last modified: 26 July 2023
Modified By: Michael Wise 		UWA